Proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is a warm season grass with a growing season of 60–
100 days. It is a highly nutritious cereal grain used for human consumption, bird seed, and/or …

A systematic review of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental records of cannabis (fibres,
pollen, achenes and imprints of achenes) reveals its complex history in Eurasia. A …

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HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL …

Wheat and barley evolved from large-seeded annual grasses in the arid, low latitudes of
Asia; their spread into higher elevations and northern latitudes involved corresponding …

Abstract Background Tartary buckwheat, Fagopyrum tataricum, is a pseudocereal crop with
worldwide distribution and high nutritional value. However, the origin and domestication …

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 …

Globalization is one of the most potent theoretical frameworks of the moment, for it provides
a means by which we can make sense of our socio-cultural connectivities, and the networks …

The two East Asian millets, broomcorn (Panicum miliaceum) and foxtail millet (Setaria
italica), spread across Eurasia and became important crops by the second millennium BC …

The pottery vessels from the Mijiaya site reveal, to our knowledge, the first direct evidence of
in situ beer making in China, based on the analyses of starch, phytolith, and chemical …

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 …