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

Filipović, Dragana; Meadows, John; Dal Corso, Marta; Kirleis, Wiebke; Alsleben, Almuth; Akeret, Örni; Bittmann, Felix; Bosi, Giovanna; Ciută, Beatrice; Dreslerová, Dagmar; Effenberger, Henrike; Gyulai, Ferenc; G. Heiss, Andreas; Hellmund, Monika; Jahns, Susanne; Jakobitsch, Thorsten; Kapcia, Magda; Klooß, Stefanie; Kohler-Schneider, Marianne; Kroll, Helmut; Makarowicz, Przemysław; Marinova, Elena; Märkle, Tanja; Medović, Aleksandar; Maria Mercuri, Anna; Mueller‐Bieniek, Aldona; Nisbet, Renato; Pashkevich, Galina; Perego, Renata; Pokorný, Petr; Pospieszny, Łukasz; M. Przybyła, Marcin; Reed, Kelly; Rennwanz, Joanna; Stika, Hans‐Peter; Stobbe, Astrid; Tolar, Tjaša; Wasylikowa, Krystyna; Wiethold, Julian; Zerl, Tanja

doi:10.1038/s41598-020-70495-z

Public

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

Published in Scientific Reports • Aug 13, 2020

Authors:

Dragana Filipović

John Meadows

Marta Dal Corso

Abstract

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. In Europe, millet was reported in Early Neolithic contexts formed by 6000 BC, but recent radiocarbon dating of a dozen 'ea...

Subject

Panicum miliaceum

Domestication

Prehistory

Research Assistant

AI chat, annotations, notes & similar papers

Finding related papers...

Discussions

(0)

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!