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Earliest domestication of common millet (pancium miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years agoarticle 2009 • Lu, Houyuan et al.
Yellow River Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
The authors radiocarbon-dated and analyzed grain remains excavated from storage pits. The archaeological specimens were compared with modern botanical samples, permitting identification of species of millet....Early millet use in northern Chinaarticle 2012 • Yang, Xiaoyan et al.
North China Upper Paleolithic • Asia > East Asia
The authors discuss evidence of early millet use at the sites of Nanzhuangtou and Donghulin in North China. They also describe how they obtained starch grains and analyzed the samples....