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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 112, 期 18, 页码 5625-5630出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423708112
关键词
modeling; wheat; barley; staple crops; Tibet
资金
- National Social Science Fund of China [14BKG005]
- Sichuan University [SKJC201002]
- Henry Luce Foundation Program in China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies
- National Endowment for the Humanities
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 delayed their spread into East Asia. Rather, we demonstrate that the ability of these crops to tolerate frost and their low growing degree-day requirements facilitated their spread into the high-altitude margins of western China. Following their introduction to this region, these crops rapidly replaced Chinese millets and became the staple crops that still characterize agriculture in this area today.
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