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2020
New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe
New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe
Filipović, Dragana Meadows, John Corso, Marta Dal Kirleis, Wiebke Alsleben, Almuth Akeret, Örni Bittmann, Felix Bosi, Giovanna Ciută, Beatrice Dreslerová, Dagmar Effenberger, Henrike Gyulai, Ferenc Heiss, Andreas G. Hellmund, Monika Jahns, Susanne Jakobitsch, Thorsten Kapcia, Magda Klooß, Stefanie Kohler-Schneider, Marianne Kroll, Helmut Makarowicz, Przemysław Marinova, Elena Märkle, Tanja Medović, Aleksandar Mercuri, Anna Maria Mueller-Bieniek, Aldona Nisbet, Renato Pashkevich, Galina Perego, Renata Pokorný, Petr Pospieszny, Łukasz Przybyła, Marcin Reed, Kelly Rennwanz, Joanna Stika, Hans-Peter Stobbe, Astrid Tolar, Tjaša Wasylikowa, Krystyna Wiethold, Julian Zerl, Tanja
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Broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) is not one of the founder crops domesticated in Southwest Asia in the early Holocene, but was domesticated in northeast China by 6000 bc. In Europe, millet was reported in Early Neolithic contexts formed by 6000 bc, but recent radiocarbon dating of a dozen 'early' grains cast doubt on these claims. Archaeobotanical evidence reveals that millet was common in Europe from the 2nd millennium bc, when major societal and economic transformations took place in the Bronze Age. We conducted an extensive programme of AMS-dating of charred broomcorn millet grains from 75 prehistoric sites in Europe. Our Bayesian model reveals that millet cultivation began in Europe at the earliest during the sixteenth century bc, and spread rapidly during the fifteenth/fourteenth centuries bc. Broomcorn millet succeeds in exceptionally wide range of growing conditions and completes its lifecycle in less than three summer months. Offering an additional harvest and thus surplus food/fodder, it likely was a transformative innovation in European prehistoric agriculture previously based mainly on (winter) cropping of wheat and barley. We provide a new, high-resolution chronological framework for this key agricultural development that likely contributed to far-reaching changes in lifestyle in late 2nd millennium bc Europe.
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Scientific reports, 10 (2020), 1, 13698.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-70495-z.
ISSN: 2045-2322
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@article{Filipović2020,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16269},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-020-70495-z},
author = {Filipović, Dragana and Meadows, John and Corso, Marta Dal et al.},
title = {New AMS 14C dates track the arrival and spread of broomcorn millet cultivation and agricultural change in prehistoric Europe},
journal = {Scientific reports},
year = {2020},
volume = {10},
number = {1},
}