New evidence for supplementary crop production, foddering and fuel use by Bronze Age transhumant pastoralists in the Tianshan Mountains
| Autor: | Alison Betts, Duo Tian, Dexin Cong, Peter Weiming Jia, Marcella Festa, Zhijun Zhao |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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010506 paleontology
Science Pastoralism 01 natural sciences Article law.invention Bronze Age law Crop production Assemblage (archaeology) 0601 history and archaeology Radiocarbon dating 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Multidisciplinary 060102 archaeology Agroforestry 06 humanities and the arts Naked barley Geography Archaeology Anthropology Foxtail Biological dispersal Medicine |
| Zdroj: | Scientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021) Scientific Reports |
| ISSN: | 2045-2322 |
| Popis: | The nature of economies and the movement of agricultural crops across Eurasia in the Bronze Age have been the subject of significant research interest in recent years. This study presents and discusses new results of flotation, radiocarbon and carbon stable isotope analyses from the seed assemblage at the Adunqiaolu site (northwestern Xinjiang), in combination with archaeological evidence. Archaeobotanical evidence, including carbonized foxtail millet, broomcorn millet, and naked barley, documents the diversity of local cereal consumption during the mid-second millennium BC. Our results suggest that crops were not grown locally, however, but in the lower Boertala Valley, supporting the argument that Adunqiaolu was a winter camp. These new sets of data constitute an important contribution to the discussion on cereal dispersal across the Tianshan Mountains in the Bronze Age. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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