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SUMMARY:The spread of livestock\, dairy and millet into the eastern stepp
 es: Biomolecular perspectives from the Altai mountains and the Mongolian
  steppe
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DESCRIPTION:Prof Cheryl Makarewicz\, University of Kiel\, joins us for a 
 Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences seminar. Abstract below. 
 \n\nThe spread of domesticated plants and animals across the Eurasian st
 eppe sparked the emergence of novel subsistence strategies that converte
 d expanses of plant biomass unavailable for human consumption into a rel
 iable food source via domesticated livestock grazing. The ASIAPAST proje
 ct investigates a critical transition in this process when sheep\, goats
  and cattle first spread beyond the western steppes of Kazakhstan into r
 ugged terrains to the east. Proteomic analyses of human dental calculus 
 and organic residue analyses of ceramics reveal dairy consumption coinci
 ded with initial transmission five thousand years ago of domesticated li
 vestock in the Altai mountains from the eastern Eurasian steppe\, althou
 gh the relative importance to human diets remains unclear. There\, ancie
 nt pastoralists later incorporated millet into their diets\, but mobile 
 pastoralists in the adjacent Mongolian steppe did not take up this foods
 tuff\, ubiquitous throughout much of East and Central Asia\, until quite
  late at ca. 200 cal BC coinciding with the emergence of the Xiongnu emp
 ire. Even then\, millet consumption was sporadic and geographically rest
 ricted to the Xiongnu heartland. Finally\, I discuss the promises and cu
 rrent limitations of biomolecular analyses to drawing out the precise me
 chanisms underscoring the spread of pastoralism.
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LOCATION:Zoom\, Williamson Building\, Manchester
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