dc.contributor.author
Leipe, C.
dc.contributor.author
Long, T.
dc.contributor.author
Sergusheva, E. A.
dc.contributor.author
Wagner, M.
dc.contributor.author
Tarasov, P. E.
dc.date.accessioned
2019-11-05T10:01:53Z
dc.date.available
2019-11-05T10:01:53Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/25872
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-25633
dc.description.abstract
Although broomcorn and foxtail millet are among the earliest staple crop domesticates, their spread and impacts on demography remain controversial, mainly because of the use of indirect evidence. Bayesian modeling applied to a dataset of new and published radiocarbon dates derived from domesticated millet grains suggests that after their initial cultivation in the crescent around the Bohai Sea ca. 5800 BCE, the crops spread discontinuously across eastern Asia. Our findings on the spread of millet that intensified during the fourth millennium BCE coincide with published dates of the expansion of the Sino-Tibetan languages from the Yellow River basin. In northern China, the spread of millet-based agriculture supported a quasi-exponential population growth from 6000 to 2000 BCE. While growth continued in northeastern China after 2000 BCE, the Upper/Middle Yellow River experienced decline. We propose that this pattern of regional divergence is mainly the result of internal and external anthropogenic factors.
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dc.format.extent
10 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject
eastern Asia
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dc.subject
population dynamics
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dc.subject
millet agriculture
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dc.subject.ddc
900 Geschichte und Geografie::930 Geschichte des Altertums (bis ca. 499), Archäologie::930 Geschichte des Altertums bis ca. 499, Archäologie
dc.title
Discontinuous spread of millet agriculture in eastern Asia and prehistoric population dynamics
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
eaax6225
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1126/sciadv.aax6225
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Science advances
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
9
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
5
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax6225
refubium.affiliation
Geowissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften / Fachrichtung Paläontologie
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2375-2548
refubium.resourceType.provider
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