Hi All, After reading Gary Wietgrefe's about millet production in Argentina, I was surprised because it's my home country but did not know that there used to be a production site. So I accessed to the database of the Agriculture ministery and extracted the information to do the figure below. [cid:image003.png@01D94865.B80A7490] https://datos.magyp.gob.ar/dataset/60a9e1ed-071e-4a65-80a7-b1dc63827ab4/arch... Best regards, Juan Di Salvo Plant Breeding Graduate Student 1210 Agronomy 716 Farm House Ln P +1 612 368-2915 -----Original Message----- From: Collab <collab-bounces@lists.millets2023.space> On Behalf Of collab-request@lists.millets2023.space Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2023 10:32 PM To: collab@lists.millets2023.space Subject: Collab Digest, Vol 13, Issue 7 Send Collab mailing list submissions to collab@lists.millets2023.space<mailto:collab@lists.millets2023.space> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.millets2023.space/mailman/listinfo/collab or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to collab-request@lists.millets2023.space<mailto:collab-request@lists.millets2023.space> You can reach the person managing the list at collab-owner@lists.millets2023.space<mailto:collab-owner@lists.millets2023.space> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Collab digest..." Today's Topics: 1. "Millets and Their Role in Early Agriculture" (plus early dissemination) (Don Osborn) 2. Re: "Millets and Their Role in Early Agriculture" (plus early dissemination) (Don Osborn) 3. Re: Collab Digest, Vol 13, Issue 6 (Gary Wietgrefe) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2023 13:57:04 -0500 From: Don Osborn <don@milletsalliance.org<mailto:don@milletsalliance.org>> To: collab@lists.millets2023.space<mailto:collab@lists.millets2023.space> Subject: [Collab] "Millets and Their Role in Early Agriculture" (plus early dissemination) Message-ID: <CA+RHibX4N-4tEZaceucsd==xWsksSeobz_3CP2UgXN4AkK3j8Q@mail.gmail.com<mailto:CA+RHibX4N-4tEZaceucsd==xWsksSeobz_3CP2UgXN4AkK3j8Q@mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Further to the theme of the February Millets Webinar - millets as "ancient grains," and how they were a lot more important in much of the world's early agriculture than was once thought - here's a paper by two noted archaeobotanists: Steven A. Weber and Dorian Q. Fuller, "Millets and Their Role in Early Agriculture," Pragdhara, No. 18, 2007. (Two links, /1 /2) This article surveys orins of millets, with mention of then current research questions, There is also discussion of how millets - being smaller than major cereal grains - did not emerge in early analysis of archaeological digs, and how a later technique involving floating, revealed the presence of many small grains identified (to the extent possible) as millets. There are tables, illustrations, and a map, situating the ancient origins of various millets across the globe. (That map is *not* the one attached.) And here's another of possible interest, that treats all domesticated crops in the grass family, including millets. It also includes a map of origins of these plants, altho using common names - 18 of 28 are millets. Gl?min, Sylvain, and Thomas Bataillon. (2009) "A comparative view of the evolution of grasses under domestication." New Phytologist 183: 273?290 (Also two links, /3 /4) Finally, a quick note on dissemination. The distribution of cultivation of many millets remained up until relatively recently limited to the immediate regions in which they were domesticated. However, a few, including notably the "big 5" - sorghum, pearl millet, foxtail millet, proso millet, and finger millet - were disseminated very early in prehistory, and relatively quickly: Foxtail and proso west and south across Eurasia, and sorghum, pearl, and finger, south in Africa and east to south & southeast Asia. The Indian subcontinent has since been a kind of "crossroads" of millets - its own domesticates, plus the big 5 as I'm calling them. Please let us know if you have other sources to recommend. Don Don Osborn, PhD (East Lansing, MI, US) North American Millets Alliance don@milletsalliance.org<mailto:don@milletsalliance.org> Notes: 1. https://www.academia.edu/322764/Millets_and_Their_Role_In_Early_Agriculture 2. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234128682_Millets_and_their_role_in... 3. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/234128682_Millets_and_their_role_in... 4. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02884.x
