Millets and Rice on the Move: Adaptive Strategies in the Past and Future

Summary

A growing tradition of archaeobotanical research, one that was pioneered by Steven Weber, is allowing us to form a picture of how millets and rice spread into Southeast Asia. Although rice continues to play an important role in the diet in this area, the use of millet has been slowly forgotten. These two different crops have been alternatively seen as a "cultural package" that coincided with the spread of farmer populations from Southern China, or adaptations to different ecological or climatic conditions. Using crop niche modeling, and new archaeobotanical data, this paper examines these two differing but complimentary perspectives on their adoption and potential futures across Southern China and SE Asia.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Seeds of the Past, Seeds of the Future: Papers in Honor of Steven A. Weber

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Abstract Id(s): 14652