Early integration of pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasia

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dc.contributor.authorHermes, Taylor R.
dc.contributor.authorFrachetti, Michael D.
dc.contributor.authorDupuy, Paula Doumani
dc.contributor.authorMar'yashev, Alexei
dc.contributor.authorNebel, Almut
dc.contributor.authorMakarewicz, Cheryl A.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-12T05:05:18Z
dc.date.available2019-12-12T05:05:18Z
dc.date.issued2019-09
dc.descriptionhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1273en_US
dc.description.abstractMobile pastoralists are thought to have facilitated the first trans-Eurasian dispersals of domesticated plants during the Early Bronze Age (ca 2500–2300 BC). Problematically, the earliest seeds of wheat, barley and millet in Inner Asia were recovered from human mortuary contexts and do not inform on local cultivation or subsistence use, while contemporaneous evidence for the use and management of domesticated livestock in the region remains ambiguous. We analysed mitochondrial DNA and multi-stable isotopic ratios (δ13C, δ15N and δ18O) of faunal remains from key pastoralist sites in the Dzhungar Mountains of southeastern Kazakhstan. At ca 2700 BC, Near Eastern domesticated sheep and goat were present at the settlement of Dali, which were also winter foddered with the region's earliest cultivated millet spreading from its centre of domestication in northern China. In the following centuries, millet cultivation and caprine management became increasingly intertwined at the nearby site of Begash. Cattle, on the other hand, received low levels of millet fodder at the sites for millennia. By primarily examining livestock dietary intake, this study reveals that the initial transmission of millet across the mountains of Inner Asia coincided with a substantial connection between pastoralism and plant cultivation, suggesting that pastoralist livestock herding was integral for the westward dispersal of millet from farming societies in China.en_US
dc.identifier.citationHermes, T. R., Frachetti, M. D., Doumani Dupuy, P. N., Mar’yashev, A., Nebel, A., & Makarewicz, C. A. (2019). Early integration of pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasia. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1910), 20191273. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.1273en_US
dc.identifier.issn0962-8452
dc.identifier.other10.1098/rspb.2019.1273
dc.identifier.urihttp://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/4419
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherRoyal Societyen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectbroomcorn milleten_US
dc.subjectPanicum miliaceumen_US
dc.subjectfoxtail milleten_US
dc.subjectSetaria italicaen_US
dc.subjectEarly Bronze Ageen_US
dc.subjectKazakhstanen_US
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectpastoralismen_US
dc.subjectmillet cultivationen_US
dc.subjectBronze Ageen_US
dc.titleEarly integration of pastoralism and millet cultivation in Bronze Age Eurasiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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