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DOI10.1177/0959683616641742
Millet cultivation across Eurasia: Origins, spread, and the influence of seasonal climate
Miller, Naomi F.1; Spengler, Robert N.2; Frachetti, Michael3
通讯作者Miller, Naomi F.
来源期刊HOLOCENE
ISSN0959-6836
EISSN1477-0911
出版年2016
卷号26期号:10页码:1566-1575
英文摘要

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 earliest indisputable archaeobotanical remains of broomcorn millet outside of East Asia identified thus far date to the end of the third millennium BC in eastern Kazakhstan. By the end of the second millennium BC, broomcorn millet cultivation had spread to the rest of Central Eurasia and to Eastern Europe. Both millets are well suited to an arid ecology where the dominant portion of the annual precipitation falls during the warm summer months. Indeed, the earliest sites with millet remains outside of East Asia are restricted to a narrow foothill ecocline between 800 and 2000 m a.s.l., where summer precipitation is relatively high (about 125mm or more, from May through October). Ethnohistorically, millets, as fast-growing, warm-season crops, were commonly cultivated as a way to reduce agricultural risk and were grown as a low-investment rain-fed summer crop. In Eurasian regions with moist winters and very low summer precipitation, the prevailing agricultural regime had long depended on winter wheat (Triticum aestivum) and barley (Hordeum vulgare) cultivated with supplemental irrigation. We propose that the secondary wave of millet cultivation that spread into the summer-dry regions of southern Central Asia is associated with an intensification of productive economies in general, and specifically with the expansion of centrally organized irrigation works.


英文关键词agriculture irrigation Panicum miliaceum plant domestication seasonality Setaria italica
类型Article
语种英语
国家USA ; Germany
收录类别SCI-E ; SSCI ; AHCI
WOS记录号WOS:000382971700005
WOS关键词PANICUM-MILIACEUM L. ; BRONZE-AGE ; BROOMCORN MILLET ; CENTRAL-ASIA ; NORTH CHINA ; OLD-WORLD ; AGRICULTURE ; REGION ; DOMESTICATION ; STEPPE
WOS类目Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向Physical Geography ; Geology
资源类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/193390
作者单位1.Univ Penn, Museum Archaeol & Anthropol, 3260 South St, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA;
2.German Archaeol Inst, Berlin, Germany;
3.Washington Univ, St Louis, MO USA
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Miller, Naomi F.,Spengler, Robert N.,Frachetti, Michael. Millet cultivation across Eurasia: Origins, spread, and the influence of seasonal climate[J],2016,26(10):1566-1575.
APA Miller, Naomi F.,Spengler, Robert N.,&Frachetti, Michael.(2016).Millet cultivation across Eurasia: Origins, spread, and the influence of seasonal climate.HOLOCENE,26(10),1566-1575.
MLA Miller, Naomi F.,et al."Millet cultivation across Eurasia: Origins, spread, and the influence of seasonal climate".HOLOCENE 26.10(2016):1566-1575.
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