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Ref ID: 19611
Ref Type: Journal Article
Authors: Ren, Lele
Dong, Guanghui
Liu, Fengwen
d'Alpoim-Guedes, Jade
Flad, Rowan K.
Ma, Minmin
Li, Haiming
Yang, Yishi
Liu, Yujia
Zhang, Dongju
Li, Guolin
Li, Jiyuan
Chen, Fahu
Title: Foraging and farming: Archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence for Neolithic exchange on the Tibetan Plateau
Date: 2020
Source: Antiquity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2020.35
Abstract: Archaeological research has documented the migration of Neolithic farmers onto the Tibetan Plateau by 4000 BC. How these incoming groups interacted, if at all, with local indigenous foragers, however, remains unclear. New archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological data from the Zongri site in the northeastern Tibetan Plateau suggest that local foragers continued to hunt but supplemented their diet with agricultural products in the form of millet. The authors propose that, rather than being grown locally, this millet was acquired via exchange with farmers. This article highlights how indigenous foragers engaged in complex patterns of material and cultural exchange through encounters with newly arrived farmers.
Volume: 94
Number: 375
Page Start: 637
Page End: 652