New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe

D Filipović, J Meadows, MD Corso, W Kirleis… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is not one of the founder crops domesticated in
Southwest Asia in the early Holocene, but was domesticated in northeast China by 6000 bc …

[HTML][HTML] 'Old food, new methods': recent developments in lipid analysis for ancient foodstuffs

R Vykukal, A Gabiger, LJE Cramp… - TrAC Trends in Analytical …, 2024 - Elsevier
In the study of ancient diet, lipid analysis of archaeological pottery residues has become a
major investigative tool. Lipids absorb readily into clay vessels during cooking or processing …

Lipid residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the Liujiawa site of the Rui State (early Iron Age, north China)

B Han, Z Sun, J Chong, N Lyu, H Rao… - Journal of Quaternary …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The Liujiawa site is located in the Agricultural–Nomadic Transitional Zone in Northern China
(ANTZNC), inhabited during the early Spring and Autumn Period (770–476 bc). Little is …

Microfossil evidence of rice cultivation on the Southeast China Coast 7500 years ago

X Zuo, J Dai, W Wu, J **, W Ge, Y Wang, L Ren… - Science China Earth …, 2022 - Springer
Located on the southeast coast of China, Fujian is an important junction for the spread and
migration of agriculture and populations from mainland Asia to Taiwan and the Island …

Making the invisible visible: tracing the origins of plants in West African cuisine through archaeobotanical and organic residue analysis

J Dunne, A Höhn, K Neumann, G Franke… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
West African cuisine has long been known for its distinct ingredients and flavours, often
enhanced by the addition of a large and diverse range of plant foods. A traditional meal …

New insights into the subsistence strategies of the northwest frontier of the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BCE) through pottery lipid analysis

N Sun, Q Ma, B Han, Y Yang - Archaeological and Anthropological …, 2023 - Springer
The agro-pastoral ecotone in northern China has long been an essential interaction
between the Central Plains and the Eurasian steppe. The Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 …

Dynamic changes in microbial communities and flavor during different fermentation stages of proso millet Baijiu, a new product from Shanxi light-flavored Baijiu

J Zhao, Z Gao - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Proso millet, a high-quality fermentation material used for Chinese yellow wine
production, can produce special flavored substances; however, its role in improving the …

[HTML][HTML] Terrestrial diet in prehistoric human groups from southern Poland based on human, faunal and botanical stable isotope evidence

B Mnich, A Mueller-Bieniek, M Nowak… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
We present stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses of animal and human bones from
south-eastern Poland, dated to the Neolithic and the Bronze Ages. The analyses are …

The oldest millet herbal beer in the Europe? The ninth century BCE bronze luxury bucket from Kladina, Czech Republic

J Jilek, M Golec, P Bednář, M Chytráček, D Vích… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In 2017, a luxury bronze bucket was discovered near Kladina village in the Czech Republic.
The bucket is dated to the ninth century BCE, and it is a unique artefact, having no parallel in …

The diet of settled Neolithic farmers of east-central Europe: Isotopic and dental microwear evidence

S Drtikolová Kaupová, I Jarošová, J Bíšková… - Archaeological and …, 2023 - Springer
This study reconstructs Middle and Late Neolithic dietary practices in the area of the today
Czech Republic and Lower Austria with a help of complementary evidence of stable isotope …