Adzuki is a central legume in East Asian culinary culture, yet its domestication origin remains debated. Using ~700 accessions across Asia, we show that the initial domestication happened three to fiv...

Adzuki is a central legume in East Asian culinary culture, yet its domestication origin remains debated. Using ~700 accessions across Asia, we show that the initial domestication happened three to fiv...

Adzuki is a central legume in East Asian culinary culture, yet its domestication origin remains debated. Using ~700 accessions across Asia, we show that the initial domestication happened three to fiv...

Adzuki is a central legume in East Asian culinary culture, yet its domestication origin remains debated. Using ~700 accessions across Asia, we show that the initial domestication happened three to fiv...

The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and herding was among the most profound economic changes that occurred in human history.

Adzuki is a central legume in East Asian culinary culture, yet its domestication origin remains debated. Using ~700 accessions across Asia, we show that the initial domestication happened three to fiv...

Abstract. Pigs are the most commercially important modern livestock animal in East Asia. Numerous aspects of their domestication history remain unclear, ho

The eggshells found at 12 archaeological sites in Central Asia suggests that poultry farming intensified along the Silk Road from the 4th century BC onward.

Horsepower revolutionized human history through enhanced mobility, transport, and warfare. However, the suite of biological traits that reshaped horses during domestication remains unclear. We scanned...

The origin, evolution and domestication of Citrus and the genealogy of the most important wild and cultivated citrus varieties.

The shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture and herding was among the most profound economic changes that occurred in human history.

The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...

The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...

The origins of bread have long been associated with the emergence of agriculture and cereal domestication during the Neolithic in southwest Asia. I...

Pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br. syn. Cenchrus americanus (L.) Morrone) is the most widely cultivated millet in the world. It is a major source of food and fodder in Africa and South Asia, where it has been grown since prehistoric times. Genetic studies trace the domestication of this important crop to the western Sahel in Africa by 2800 BCE, although the earliest evidence of domestication traits have been dated to c. 2500 BCE in pottery temper. In South Asia, securely dated finds appear around 1900 BCE. Here, we report two absolute dates of pearl millet caryopses to 2578–2358 and 2576–2356 cal BCE from Bhando Qubo, an archaeological site in the lower Indus Valley (Sindh, Pakistan). These caryopses have proven to be contemporary to the oldest evidence of domesticated pearl millet in Africa and represent the earliest Pennisetum glaucum grains directly dated by 14C AMS worldwide. This discovery indicates that pearl millet expanded into South Asia at least five centuries earlier than previously thought and highlights the Indus Valley as a crucial corridor for prehistoric crop diffusion.

The relationship between humans and pigs has changed dramatically since their domestication in southwest Asia and subsequent human-induced introduc...