Many of today's major food crops are distributed worldwide. While much of this 'food
globalisation'has resulted from modern trade networks, it has its roots in prehistory. In this …

The innovations of agricultural production and their extensive dispersal promoted the
transformation of human livelihoods and profoundly influenced the evolution of human-land …

The period from the late third millennium BC to the start of the first millennium AD witnesses
the first steps towards food globalization in which a significant number of important crops …

The history of cultural exchange in prehistoric Eurasia (CEPE) has been widely investigated.
Based on archaeological evidence, this process is thought to date back to at least the early …

Wheat is regarded as one of the most important West Asian domesticates that were
introduced into Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age China. Despite a growing body of …

The westward expansion of human millet consumption from north China has important
implications for understanding early interactions between the East and West. However, few …

Human diets rely on natural resource availability and can reflect social and cultural values.
When environments, societies, and cultures change, diets may also shift. This study traced …

Today, farmers in many regions of eastern Asia sow their barley grains in the spring and
harvest them in the autumn of the same year (spring barley). However, when it was first …

Increase in grain/seed size recurrently features as a key element in the 'domestication
syndrome'of plants (cf. Zohary and Hopf 2000; Fuller et al. 2014). In the context of its spread …

We report dozens of direct radiocarbon dates on charred grains from 22 archaeological sites
of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages in the Hexi Corridor, northwest China, a key region for …