New evidence for supplementary crop production, foddering and fuel use by Bronze Age transhumant pastoralists in the Tianshan Mountains

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 13718 - 13
• Main Authors: Tian, Duo, Festa, Marcella, Cong, Dexin, Zhao, Zhijun, Jia, Peter Weiming, Betts, Alison
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.07.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 631/181/19; 631/181/27; Bronze Age; Crop production; Crops; Dispersal; Flotation; Humanities and Social Sciences; Millet; Mountains; multidisciplinary; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Stable isotopes; Tien Shan Mountains
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-93090-2

The nature of economies and the movement of agricultural crops across Eurasia in the Bronze Age have been the subject of significant research interest in recent years. This study presents and discusses new results of flotation, radiocarbon and carbon stable isotope analyses from the seed assemblage...