Anil K. Pokharia

TL;DR: Investigating when barley cultivation dispersed from southwest Asia to regions of eastern Asia and how the eastern spring barley evolved in this context indicates that the eastern dispersals of wheat and barley were distinct in both space and time.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the pace of a eastward/southward spread was interrupted around 1800 BC on the borders of the distinct culinary zone recognized by Fuller and Rowlands (2011), but regained pace around 200–300 years later in central-east China with a diminished grain size.

TL;DR: The shift towards drought-resistant crops in peripheral region is to be inferred as cultural adaptation in response to decline of SW monsoon during the late Holocene (∼4 ka), to which millets are better suited.

TL;DR: A significant change in crop-pattern at ~4,200 yrs BP is shown, based on abundant macrobotanical remains and C isotopes of soil organic matter in an archaeological site at Khirsara, in the Gujarat state of western India, which appears to be intentional and was likely used as an adaptation measure in response to deteriorated monsoonal conditions.

TL;DR: Pollen analysis of a 2.6 m thick sediment profile from Karela Jheel has indicated that the region supported open grasslands with scattered trees, depicting the deterioration of climate due to reduced monsoon precipitation.