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DOI | 10.1177/0959683616641742 |
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
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ISSN | 0959-6836 |
EISSN | 1477-0911 |
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 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | 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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