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DOI	10.1038/s41598-021-03552-w
	Phytolith evidence for the pastoral origins of multi-cropping in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq)
	Laugier, Elise Jakoby; Casana, Jesse; Cabanes, Dan
通讯作者	Laugier, EJ (corresponding author)，Dartmouth Coll, Grad Program Ecol Evolut Environm & Soc EEE, Hanover, NH 03755 USA. ; Laugier, EJ (corresponding author)，Dartmouth Coll, Dept Anthropol, Hanover, NH 03755 USA. ; Laugier, EJ (corresponding author)，Rutgers State Univ, Dept Anthropol, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA. ; Laugier, EJ (corresponding author)，Rutgers State Univ, Ctr Human Evolutionary Studies CHES, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA.
来源期刊	SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
ISSN	2045-2322
出版年	2022
卷号	12 期号:1
英文摘要	Multi-cropping was vital for provisioning large population centers across ancient Eurasia. In Southwest Asia, multi-cropping, in which grain, fodder, or forage could be reliably cultivated during dry summer months, only became possible with the translocation of summer grains, like millet, from Africa and East Asia. Despite some textual sources suggesting millet cultivation as early as the third millennium BCE, the absence of robust archaeobotanical evidence for millet in semi-arid Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq) has led most archaeologists to conclude that millet was only grown in the region after the mid-first millennium BCE introduction of massive, state-sponsored irrigation systems. Here, we present the earliest micro-botanical evidence of the summer grain broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) in Mesopotamia, identified using phytoliths in dung-rich sediments from Khani Masi, a mid-second millennium BCE site located in northern Iraq. Taphonomic factors associated with the region's agro-pastoral systems have likely made millet challenging to recognize using conventional macrobotanical analyses, and millet may therefore have been more widespread and cultivated much earlier in Mesopotamia than is currently recognized. The evidence for pastoral-related multi-cropping in Bronze Age Mesopotamia provides an antecedent to first millennium BCE agricultural intensification and ties Mesopotamia into our rapidly evolving understanding of early Eurasian food globalization.
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000741645800143
WOS关键词	FOOD GLOBALIZATION ; MILLET CULTIVATION ; CENTRAL-ASIA ; IDENTIFICATION ; AGRICULTURE ; GUJARAT ; BRONZE
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/376580
作者单位	[Laugier, Elise Jakoby] Dartmouth Coll, Grad Program Ecol Evolut Environm & Soc EEE, Hanover, NH 03755 USA; [Laugier, Elise Jakoby; Casana, Jesse] Dartmouth Coll, Dept Anthropol, Hanover, NH 03755 USA; [Laugier, Elise Jakoby; Cabanes, Dan] Rutgers State Univ, Dept Anthropol, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA; [Laugier, Elise Jakoby; Cabanes, Dan] Rutgers State Univ, Ctr Human Evolutionary Studies CHES, New Brunswick, NJ 08901 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Laugier, Elise Jakoby,Casana, Jesse,Cabanes, Dan. Phytolith evidence for the pastoral origins of multi-cropping in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq)[J],2022,12(1).
APA	Laugier, Elise Jakoby,Casana, Jesse,&Cabanes, Dan.(2022).Phytolith evidence for the pastoral origins of multi-cropping in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq).SCIENTIFIC REPORTS,12(1).
MLA	Laugier, Elise Jakoby,et al."Phytolith evidence for the pastoral origins of multi-cropping in Mesopotamia (ancient Iraq)".SCIENTIFIC REPORTS 12.1(2022).