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ReviewEvolutionary human sciences2024

Millets, dogs, pigs and permanent settlement: productivity transitions in Neolithic northern China.

Chris J Stevens, Yijie Zhuang, Dorian Q Fuller

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Review in Evolutionary human sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Chris J StevensUCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London WC1H 0PY, UK.
Yijie ZhuangUCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London WC1H 0PY, UK.
Dorian Q FullerUCL Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London WC1H 0PY, UK.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4859-080X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The transition to sedentary agricultural societies in northern China fuelled considerable demographic growth from 5000 to 2000 BC. In this article, we draw together archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and bioarchaeological data and explore the relationship between several aspects of this transition, with an emphasis on the millet-farming productivity during the Yangshao period and how it facilitated changes in animal husbandry and consolidation of sedentism. We place the period of domestication (the evolution of non-shattering, initial grain size increase and panicle development) between 8300 and 4300 BC. The domestication and post-domestication of foxtail (

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DomesticationEast Asiamilletorigins of agriculturepigsXinglongwaYangshao

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PMCPMC11658956

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