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China's millet spread to Europe 7,000 years ago
People's Daily Online ^ | May 14, 2009 | unattributed

Posted on 05/18/2009 7:53:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Millet was brought into Europe from China more than 7,000 years ago, archaeologists from the University of Cambridge in the UK stated in a thesis published by US journal "Science" on May 8.

The report, entitled "Origins of Agriculture in East Asia," was coauthored by Martin Jones, a professor of archaeology at the University of Cambridge and his Chinese student Liu Xinyi. The study said that charred millet seeds found in the Neolithic farming remains in Northeast China indicated that locals had planted millet as early as 8,000 years ago. Millet was gradually introduced to Europe during the next millennium. This research result shows that millet crops were first cultivated in China before being introduced to the West.

(Excerpt) Read more at english.people.com.cn ...


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: agriculture; animalhusbandry; china; dietandcuisine; europe; godsgravesglyphs; millet; silkroad

1 posted on 05/18/2009 7:53:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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China Exclusive: Chinese Archaeologists Discover Worlds Earliest Millet
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2 posted on 05/18/2009 7:53:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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3 posted on 05/18/2009 7:54:02 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: SunkenCiv

And Michael Bolton’s mullet spread throughout the world in the 1980s.


4 posted on 05/18/2009 7:58:40 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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To: SunkenCiv
China's millet spread to Europe 7,000 years ago

Huh? The earliest I can recall seeing a chinese mullet was in the late 1980's.


5 posted on 05/18/2009 8:00:50 PM PDT by adm5 (YOU CANNOT FIX CAPITALISM WITH SOCIALISM! -Glenn Beck)
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To: Question_Assumptions

You beat me by over a minute, but I win for my picture.

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6 posted on 05/18/2009 8:01:30 PM PDT by adm5 (YOU CANNOT FIX CAPITALISM WITH SOCIALISM! -Glenn Beck)
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Did you really want me to post a picture of Michael Bolton? :p


7 posted on 05/18/2009 8:07:19 PM PDT by Question_Assumptions
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8 posted on 05/18/2009 8:54:41 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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