PAST & FUTURE MILLET FOODWAYS (MILWAYS),
No. 101087964 (PI: Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute Keen).
The MILWAYS project will use broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) – and will bridge a large geographic territory tracking the earliest millet dispersals across eastern-central Europe from the mid. 2nd mill. BCE onwards along the south-north axis all the way to millet cultivation limit. MILWAYS will utilize the high carbon isotope values of millet, resulting from its C4-photosynthetic pathway in conjunction with the distinct miliacin biomarker in order to identify its consumption, with respect to shifting climates, human mobility, demographic categories of sex, age and changes of plant use across historical times.
European Research Council, Consolidator Grant 2022 (ERC CoG 101087964 ) – Start date: 1 June. 2023
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