Why Move Starchy Cereals? Stable isotope evidence for the spread of crops across Eurasia in prehistory

Summary

The spread of agriculture in the Neolithic and Bronze Age is an important topic of archaeological research, with major implications for human societies across Eurasia. The Food Globalisation in Prehistory project (FOGLIP) has furthered our knowledge of the spread of crops across Eurasia in prehistory using a variety of archaeological methods including archaeobotany, genetics and stable isotope analysis. This presentation will focus on the contribution of stable isotope analysis to our understanding of this early episode of crop exchange, particularly the consumption of millet away from its domestication centre. By combining published literature with data generated by the FOGLIP project, I will contribute to our understanding of where, when and why crops were spread across Eurasia by early farmers.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• Food Globalisation in Prehistory

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