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Pages: 320
ISBN: 9789464270167
Pub Date: 28 May 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 13fc/61bw
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9789464270150
Pub Date: 28 May 2022
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 13fc/61bw
Description:
Broomcorn/common/proso millet (Panicum miliaceum) is a cereal crop that originated in East Asia and was transferred westward to Europe, where it was introduced in the mid-2nd millennium BCE, at the height of the Bronze Age. Archaeobotanists from the Collaborative Research Centre 1266, supported by many colleagues, conducted a large-scale programme of radiocarbon dating of millet grains from prehistoric Europe. They discovered that the spread of this crop on the continent happened quickly, extending far and wide.