Penelope J. Jones

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: In this paper, the authors are grateful to the European Research Council, under grant 249642, “Food Globalisation in Prehistory” (FOGLIP, PI: M. K. Jones); the Leverhulme Trust under grant f/09717/C, "Pioneers of Pan-Asian Contact”(PPAC, PI): M.K. Jones; the National Science Foundation, under Grant 1826727, "The origins and spread of millet cultivation" (PI: X. Liu); the Rae and Edith Bennett

TL;DR: This article explored the nature and dynamics of adaptation and resilience in the face of a diverse and varied environmental and ecological context using the case study of South Asia's Indus Civilization (ca. 3000-1300 BC).

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: Significant gaps remain in understanding of how urbanisation impacts aerobiomes and the health implications of those changes, and the need to standardise methods and make aerobiome data open access to facilitate cross-study comparisons is highlighted.