Unprecedented yet gradual nature of first millennium CE intercontinental crop plant dispersal revealed in ancient Negev desert refuse
D. Fuks, Y. Melamed, D. Langgut, T. Erickson-Gini, Y. Tepper, G. Bar-Oz, E. Weiss
The paper analyzes ancient Negev desert refuse to show that the first millennium CE was a significant period for crop dispersal, supporting a gradualist model over abrupt changes.
bioRxiv · Dec 1, 2022Ecology