Measuring millet

holoI’m very happy to share the news that my article on millet morphometry has been published in the Holocene! You can read the abstract here, and get the online version before it comes out in print. The paper reports my findings after measuring hundreds of archaeological foxtail millet grains from Yiluo Project samples, and modern foxtail millet (that stuff you give to parakeets as a treat). I found that the range of size and shape possible in domesticated millet is great enough that we as archaeobotanists should exercise caution when making fine-grained distinctions below the genus level. So pleased to see this paper in such a great publication!

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