Millet and What Else? The Wider Context of the Adoption of Millet Cultivation in Europe

• Other Authors: Kirleis, Wiebke (Editor), Dal Corso, Marta (Editor), Filipović, Dragana (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2022
• Series: Scales of Transformation 14
• Subjects: Prehistoric archaeology; archaeology; millet; Europe prehistory; Bronze Age; archaeobotany; zooarchaeology; miliacin; prehistoric agriculture
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

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 m...