Pathways of diffusion of some plants and animals between Asia and the Mediterranean region

Aubaile, Françoise

doi:10.4000/ethnoecologie.714

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“…Any phylogeography of common walnut and any reconstruction of its Holocene distribution must account for its long history of human use and the clear historical record of human dispersal of walnut over the past millennium [ 16 – 18 , 32 , 33 ]. The evidence that dispersal by ancient humans shaped the current spatial genetic structure of autochthonous populations of common walnut in Asia comes from the integration of genetic data with historical and linguistic sources.…”

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“…Pome fruits, olives, almonds, pistachios, pomegranates, and common walnut are among the many perennial food plants dispersed across Asia by human migration, merchants, armies and imperial emissaries [ 33 ]. Of these species, common walnut is unusual because only recently (within the past century) has been widely propagated by grafting, and it is still propagated almost exclusively by seed across Asia [ 45 ].…”

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Ancient Humans Influenced the Current Spatial Genetic Structure of Common Walnut Populations in Asia

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Common walnut (Juglans regia L) is an economically important species cultivated worldwide for its wood and nuts. It is generally accepted that J. regia survived and grew spontaneously in almost completely isolated stands in its Asian native range after the Last Glacial Maximum. Despite its natural geographic isolation, J. regia evolved over many centuries under the influence of human management and exploitation. We evaluated the hypothesis that the current distribution of natural genetic resources of common walnut in Asia is, at least in part, the product of ancient anthropogenic dispersal, human cultural interactions, and afforestation. Genetic analysis combined with ethno-linguistic and historical data indicated that ancient trade routes such as the Persian Royal Road and Silk Road enabled long-distance dispersal of J. regia from Iran and Trans-Caucasus to Central Asia, and from Western to Eastern China. Ancient commerce also disrupted the local spatial genetic structure of autochthonous walnut populations between Tashkent and Samarkand (Central-Eastern Uzbekistan), where the northern and central routes of the Northern Silk Road converged. A significant association between ancient language phyla and the genetic structure of walnut populations is reported even after adjustment for geographic distances that could have affected both walnut gene flow and human commerce over the centuries. Beyond the economic importance of common walnut, our study delineates an alternative approach for understanding how the genetic resources of long-lived perennial tree species may be affected by the interaction of geography and human history.

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“…Такая проблема в той или иной степени существует при определении географических центров окультуривания практически всех растений, которые были одомашнены в глубокой древности. В настоящее время фисташка широко культивируется по всему Средиземноморью, в том числе и на Ближнем Востоке (Aubaile, 2012). Обилие фисташковых плантаций в Сирии позволило некоторым современным исследователям согласиться с мнением древних ученых (см.…”

Section: история введения в культуру фисташки настоящей в древнем мирunclassified

“…э.) В последние десятилетия все более активно разрабатывается гипотеза о центральноазиатском происхождении культурной фисташки (Stol, 1979;Zohary, 1996;Al-Saghir, 2009;Aubaile, 2012;Zohary & Hopf, 2012). На наш взгляд, гипотеза эта выглядит более убедительно, нежели вышеописанная.…”

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Botanical identification of ancient Hebrew phytonym boṭnîm. On domestication history of pistachio (<i>Pistacia vera<i> L., Anacardiaceae)

Sorokin¹

2018

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“…During this time, several east-and central Asian crops, including some of those on Watson's IGR list, were introduced to the Mediterranean region, along with agricultural technologies [17][18][19][20][21]. From this period on, a growing fruit basket is evident in sites and texts of the eastern Mediterranean region [22][23][24][25]. These include several tree-fruits (Supplementary Table 2) apparently reflecting the Greco-Roman passion for grafting and its pivotal role in the dispersal of temperate fruit crops from Central Asia to the Mediterranean and Europe [3,26].…”

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Unprecedented yet gradual nature of first millennium CE intercontinental crop plant dispersal revealed in ancient Negev desert refuse

Fuks

Melamed

Langgut

et al. 2022

Preprint

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Global agro-biodiversity has resulted from processes of plant migration and agricultural adoption. Although critically affecting current diversity, crop diffusion from antiquity to the middle-ages is poorly researched, overshadowed by studies on that of prehistoric periods. A new archaeobotanical dataset from three Negev Highland desert sites demonstrates the first millennium CE's significance for long-term agricultural change in southwest Asia. This enables evaluation of the "Islamic Green Revolution" (IGR) thesis compared to "Roman Agricultural Diffusion" (RAD), and both versus crop diffusion since the Neolithic. Among the finds, some of the earliest Solanum melongena seeds in the Levant represent the proposed IGR. Several other identified economic plants, including two unprecedented in Levantine archaeobotany (Ziziphus jujuba, Lupinus albus), implicate RAD as the greater force for crop migrations. Altogether the evidence supports a gradualist model for Holocene-wide crop diffusion, within which the first millennium CE contributed more to global agro-diversity than any earlier period.

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Pathways of diffusion of some plants and animals between Asia and the Mediterranean region

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Ancient Humans Influenced the Current Spatial Genetic Structure of Common Walnut Populations in Asia

Ancient Humans Influenced the Current Spatial Genetic Structure of Common Walnut Populations in Asia

Botanical identification of ancient Hebrew phytonym boṭnîm. On domestication history of pistachio (<i>Pistacia vera<i> L., Anacardiaceae)

Unprecedented yet gradual nature of first millennium CE intercontinental crop plant dispersal revealed in ancient Negev desert refuse

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