Earliest domestication of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago

By Houyuan Lu, Jianping Zhang, Kam‐biu Liu, N. Wu, Yumei Li, K. Zhou, Maolin Ye, Tianyu Zhang, Haijiang Zhang, Xiaoyan Yang and 3 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2009

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Subfields: Anthropology, Geography, Planning and Development, Paleontology

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Citations in the corpus

• Foxtail millet: Properties, processing, health benefits, and uses (2018, background): “Its remains have also been found in Europe dating back to some 4000 years ago.((8)) At present, foxtail millet is cultivated in 26 countries and ranks second in world production of millets.”
• Food Security and Climate Change: Role of Plant Genetic Resources of Minor Millets (2009, background): “3.0 Genetic Resources of Minor Millets, their Conservation and Use Millets are among the oldest cultivated crops in the world (Chang, 1968; National Research Council, 1996; Lu et al., 2009) and cultivated over more than 35.8 million ha around the world as per estimates for 2007 (FAO, 2009).”
• Agricultural Origins: Centers and Noncenters; A Near Eastern Reappraisal (2010, background): “For example, the domestication of emmer wheat (T. turgidum ssp. dicoccum) in the Near East and common millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) in East Asia, that both occurred contemporaneously circa 10,000 years ago (wheat: Nesbitt, 2002; millet: Lu et al., 2009).”
• Genetic and Genomic Resources of Small Millets (2016, background): “Evidence from several diagnostic phytolith studies (Lu et al., 2009) and from early archeobotanical findings considered proso millet as one of the oldest cultivated cereal crops with at least two centers of origin, Northern China and Eastern Europe, dating back to at least 10,000 and 7,000…”
• Millet cultivation across Eurasia: Origins, spread, and the influence of seasonal climate (2016, background): “Lu et al. (2009a) claim that ‘>50,000 kg of grain crops’ was recovered in situ from 88 storage pits at the site.”