INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Among the earliest East Asian pioneering foragers were those who lived in North China who started cultivating wild millet. Within one or two millennia the annually cultivated millet became domesticated and was joined by corralling and eventual domestication of pigs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and common millet (Panicumm miliaceum), are believed to have been domesticated in northern China around 10000 BP20, 21, 22, 23. Millet sites are located sporadically along the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau around 8000 BP, and by c.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thirty years ago, the world’s oldest millet remains, dating to ca. 8, 200 calibrated years before present (cal yr BP), were discovered at the Early Neolithic site of Cishan, northern China. The site contained >50, 000 kg of grain crops stored in the storage pits (7–9).

Detailed explanation-4: -As minor grain crops, millets have received particular attention in China because both foxtail millet (Setaria italica L. Beauv.) and broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) were domesticated in northern China where they became the dominant traditional grain crops (2–7).