A5074370057- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Archaeology and Historical Studies
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
- Asian Studies and History
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- African history and culture analysis
- Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory
- Agriculture, Water, and Health
- GABA and Rice Research
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
National University of Singapore
2022-2024
Yale-NUS College
2018
University College London
2014
Societal Impact Statement Agrobiodiversity is central to sustainable farming worldwide. Cultivation, conservation and reintroduction of diverse plant species, including ‘forgotten’ ‘underutilized’ crops, contribute global agrobiodiversity, living ecosystems food production. Such efforts benefit from traditional historical knowledge crop plants' evolutionary cultural trajectories. This review a first attempt at systematically gauging species representativeness in studies archaeological...
Taro, Colocasia esculenta (L.) Schott, is a vegetable and starchy root crop cultivated in Asia, Oceania, the Americas, Africa, Mediterranean. Very little known about its early history Mediterranean, which previous authors have sought to trace through Classical (Greek Latin) texts that record name colocasia (including cognates) from 3rd century BC onwards. In ancient literature, however, this also refers sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. edible rhizome. Like taro, lotus an alien...
Asiatic Rice <em>Oryza sativa</em> L. (Poaceae) is a domesticated grain crop native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia, which presently ranks among most important grains in global diet. comprised two distinct phylogenetic subspecies, namely <em>japonica</em> <em>indica</em>, for genetic evidence indicates at least centres domestication: Lower Yangtze valley broad thick-grained japonica (c. 4000 BC) Gangetic basin thin elongated indica variety 2500 (Fuller et al 2010; idem 2011;...
Domesticated rice (Oryza sativa), typically a water-intensive crop, is widely cultivated in the semi-arid zones of South India and Sri Lanka staple among sedentary populations these regions when opposite should prevail light environmental constraints. This paper investigates origins large-scale cultivation attendant innovations hydraulic technologies using wide range sources but with special focus on Tamil ”Caṅkam” texts, earliest surviving textual corpus for Dravidian language family.