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SUBMITTER: d'Alpoim Guedes JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4426421 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
d'Alpoim Guedes Jade A JA Lu Hongliang H Hein Anke M AM Schmidt Amanda H AH
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150420 18
We report directly dated evidence from circa 1400 calibrated years (cal) B.C. for the early use of wheat, barley, and flax as staple crops on the borders of the Tibetan Plateau. During recent years, an increasing amount of data from the Tibetan Plateau and its margins shows that a transition from millets to wheat and barley agriculture took place during the second millennium B.C. Using thermal niche modeling, we refute previous assertions that the ecological characteristics of wheat and barley d ...[more]