{"id":156458,"date":"2025-03-25T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/agriculture\/brainfood-ancient-maize-trifecta-chinese-neolithic-ancient-silk-sheep-domestication-ancient-focaccia-indus-diversity\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T21:22:07","slug":"brainfood-ancient-maize-trifecta-chinese-neolithic-ancient-silk-sheep-domestication-ancient-focaccia-indus-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=156458","title":{"rendered":"Brainfood: Ancient maize trifecta, Chinese Neolithic, Ancient silk, Sheep domestication, Ancient focaccia, Indus diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/abstract\/S0092-8674(24)01277-7\">The genomic origin of early maize in eastern North America<\/a>. There were at least 2 eastern dispersals of ancient maize from the US Southwest. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.adn1466\">Archaeological findings show the extent of primitive characteristics of maize in South America<\/a>. At about the same time, semi-domesticated maize also reached deep into South America.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08473-y\">Maize monoculture supported pre-Columbian urbanism in southwestern Amazonia<\/a>. Including the Llanos de Moxos in Bolivia, where it supported cities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/evolutionary-human-sciences\/article\/millets-dogs-pigs-and-permanent-settlement-productivity-transitions-in-neolithic-northern-china\/A294FE008F9499F006EF9AB8D79EA667\">Millets, dogs, pigs and permanent settlement: productivity transitions in Neolithic northern China<\/a>. In China, it was millet that supported cities. Well, and pigs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-022-08167-3\">Species identification of silks by protein mass spectrometry reveals evidence of wild silk use in antiquity<\/a>. People in those cities had to wear fancy silken clothes, right?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adn2094\">Ancient genomics and the origin, dispersal, and development of domestic sheep<\/a>. Sheep domestication started in Anatolia, but that wasn&#8217;t the end of it, because there was an influx of diversity from the steppes in the Bronze Age. Nice parallel with human diversity. Different to the Chinese millet-pig story though.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-78019-9\">Unveiling the culinary tradition of \u2018focaccia\u2019 in Late Neolithic Mesopotamia by way of the integration of use-wear, phytolith &#038; organic-residue analyses<\/a>. You can trace focaccia way back. Goes quite nicely with roast sheep, I suspect.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/journals\/antiquity\/article\/different-strategies-in-indus-agriculture-the-goals-and-outcomes-of-farming-choices\/A155524D0EBBF3D631EEC620E9F98147\">Different strategies in Indus agriculture: the goals and outcomes of farming choices<\/a>. Even ancient cultures sometimes felt the need to diversify.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The genomic origin of early maize in eastern North America. There were at least 2 eastern dispersals of ancient maize from the US Southwest. Archaeological findings show the extent of primitive characteristics of maize in South America. At about the same time, semi-domesticated maize also reached deep into South America. 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