Further reading
Barton, L., S.D. Newsome, F.-H. Chen, et al. ‘Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (2009), 5523-8.
Boaretto, E. et al. ‘Radiocarbon dating of charcoal and bone collagen associated with early pottery at Yuchanyan Cave, Hunan province, China.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106 (2009), 9595-600.
Bray, F. and J. Needham. Science and Civilisation in China, vol. vi: Biology and Biological Technology, Part ii: Agriculture. Cambridge University Press, 1984.
Flad, R., S. Li, X. Wu, and Z. Zhao. ‘Early wheat in China: results from new studies at Donhuishan in the Hexi Corridor.' The Holocene, 17 (2010), 555-60.
Frachetti, M.D. et al. ‘Earliest direct evidence for broomcorn millet and wheat in the Central Eurasia steppe region.' Antiquity, 84 (2010), 993-1010.
Fuller, D.Q. ‘Pathways to Asian civilizations: tracing the origins and spread of rice and rice cultures.' Rice, 4 (2011), 78-92.
Fuller, D.Q., T. Denham, M. Arroyo-Kalin, et al. ‘Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111 (2014), 6147-52.
Fuller, D.Q. and M. Rowlands. ‘Towards a long-term macro-geography of cultural substances: food and sacrifice traditions in East, West and South Asia.' Chinese Review of Anthropology, 12 (2009), 1-37.
Hillig, K.W. ‘Genetic evidence for speciation in cannabis (Cannabaceae).' Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, 52 (2005), 161-80.
Hunt, H.V., M.G. Campana, M.C. Laws, et al. ‘Genetic diversity and phylogeography of broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) across Eurasia.' Molecular Ecology, 20 (2011), 4756-71.
Hunt, H.V., M.V. Linden, X. Liu, et al. ‘Millets across Eurasia: chronology and context of early records of the genera Panicum and Setaria from archaeological sites in the Old World.' Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 17 (2008), 5-18.
Hunt, H.V.
et al. ‘Waxy phenotype evolution in the allotetraploid cereal broomcorn millet: mutations at the GBSSI locus in their functional and phylogenetic context.' Molecular and Biological Evolution, 30 (2013), 109-22.Jones, M.K., H.V. Hunt, E. Lightfoot, et al. ‘Food globalization in prehistory.' World Archaeology, 43 (2011), 665-75.
Kuzmin, Y.V. ‘Two trajectories in the Neolithization of Eurasia: pottery versus agriculture (spatiotemporal patterns).' Radiocarbon, 55 (2013), 1304-13.
Lee, G.A., G.W. Crawford, L. Liu, Y. Sasaki, and X. Chen. ‘Archaeological soybean (Glycine max) in East Asia: does size matter?' PLoS ONE, 6 (2011), e26720.
Lightfoot, E., X. Liu, and M.K. Jones. ‘Why move starchy cereals? A review of the isotopic evidence for prehistoric millet consumption across Eurasia.' World Archaeology, 45 (2013), 574-623.
Liu, L. and X. Chen. The Archaeology of China: From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Liu, X., H.V. Hunt, and M.K. Jones. ‘River valleys and foothills: changing archaeological perceptions of North China's earliest farms.' Antiquity, 83 (2009), 82-95.
Liu, X., M.K. Jones, Z. Zhao, G. Liu, and T.C. O'Connell. ‘The earliest evidence of millet as a staple crop: new light on Neolithic foodways in North China.' American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 149 (2012), 238-90.
Vita-Finzi, C. ‘Geological opportunism.' In P.J. Ucko and G. Dimbleby (eds.), The Domestication and Exploitation of Plants and Animals. London: Duckworth, 1969. 31-4.
Yang, X., Z. Wan, L. Perry, et al. ‘Early millet use in northern China.' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109 (2012), 3726-30.
Zhao, Z. ‘New archaeobotanic data for the study of the origins of agriculture in China.' Current Anthropology, 72 (1998), 885-97.