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Dorian Fuller

Professor of Archaeobotany

London, UK

Dorian Q Fuller is Professor of Archaeobotany at University College London. He works on past agricultural systems and plant domestication through archaeological research in several regions, including sub-Saharan Africa, the Near East, South Asia and China. He works with several projects in Sudan. He is author of Trees and Woodlands of South India. Archaeological Perspectives and a co-editor of Far From the Hearth (2019), Archaeology of African Plant Use (2014) and Climates, Landscapes and Civilizations (2012). He completed his PhD on The Emergence of Agricultural Societies in South India (1999) at Cambridge University. His BA is from Yale University (1995).

Publications

  • SHORT COMMUNICATION: Massive Erosion in Monsoonal Central India Linked to Late Holocene Landcover Degradation
  • Late Holocene climate: Natural or anthropogenic?
  • Seed size and chloroplast DNA of modern and ancient seeds explain the establishment of Japanese cultivated melon (Cucumis melo L.) by introduction and selection
  • Erratum to: A methodological approach to the study of archaeological cereal meals: a case study at Çatalhöyük East (Turkey) (Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, (2017), 26, 4, (415-432), 10.1007/s00334-017-0602-6)
  • Ancient crops provide first archaeological signature of the westward Austronesian expansion
  • Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa
  • Between China and South Asia: A Middle Asian corridor of crop dispersal and agricultural innovation in the Bronze Age
  • The rice paradox: Multiple origins but single domestication in Asian Rice
  • Archaeogenetic study of prehistoric rice remains from Thailand and India: evidence of early japonica in South and Southeast Asia
  • Earliest tea as evidence for one branch of the Silk Road across the Tibetan Plateau
  • Domestication history and geographical adaptation inferred from a SNP map of African rice
  • Ecological consequences of human niche construction: Examining long-term anthropogenic shaping of global species distributions
  • Human niche construction and evolutionary theory
  • Local diversity in settlement, demography and subsistence across the southern Indian Neolithic-Iron Age transition: site growth and abandonment at Sanganakallu-Kupgal
  • Narrowing the harvest: Increasing sickle investment and the rise of domesticated cereal agriculture in the Fertile Crescent
  • Reply to westaway and lyman: Emus, dingoes, and archaeology's role in conservation biology
  • Early agriculture at the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia: Archaeobotanical evidence and radiocarbon dates from Baiyangcun, Yunnan
  • Archaeobotanical Investigations into Golbai Sasan and Gopalpur, Two Neolithic-Chalcolithic Settlements of Odisha
  • The Agriculture of Early India
  • Geographic mosaics and changing rates of cereal domestication
  • Rice, beans and trade crops on the early maritime Silk Route in Southeast Asia
  • Seed coat thinning during horsegram (Macrotyloma uniflorum) domestication documented through synchrotron tomography of archaeological seeds
  • Hunter-gatherer specialization in the late Neolithic of southern Vietnam--The case of Rach Nui
  • New radiocarbon evidence on early rice consumption and farming in South China
  • How rice failed to unify Asia: globalization and regionalism of early farming traditions in the Monsoon World
  • Gurga Chiya and Tepe Marani: New excavations in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Hunter-gatherer specialization in the late Neolithic of southern Vietnam - The case of Rach Nui
  • Reply to Ellis et al.: Human niche construction and evolutionary theory
  • Pathways of Rice Diversification across Asia
  • Rice, beans and trade crops on the early maritime Silk Route in Southeast Asia
  • Sizing up cereal variation: patterns in grain evolution revealed in chronological and geographical comparisons
  • Entanglements and Entrapment on the Pathway towards Domestication
  • Reply to Westaway and Lyman: Emus, dingoes, and archaeology’s role in conservation biology
  • Surprisingly Low Limits of Selection in Plant Domestication
  • Subsistence mosaics, forager-farmer interactions, and the transition to food production in eastern Africa
  • ADAPTING CROPS, LANDSCAPES, AND FOOD CHOICES: PATTERNS IN THE DISPERSAL OF DOMESTICATED PLANTS ACROSS EURASIA
  • The Future is Long-term: past and current directions in environmental archaeology
  • Agricultural innovation and resilience in a long-lived early farming community: the 1,500-year sequence at Neolithic to early Chalcolithic Çatalhöyük, central Anatolia
  • The origins and early dispersal of horsegram (Macrotyloma uniflorum), a major crop of ancient India
  • A methodological approach to the study of archaeological cereal meals: a case study at Çatalhöyük East (Turkey)
  • Evidence for Sorghum Domestication in Fourth Millennium BC Eastern Sudan: Spikelet Morphology from Ceramic Impressions of the Butana Group
  • Long and attenuated: comparative trends in the domestication of tree fruits
  • Evolving the Anthropocene: linking multi-level selection with long-term social–ecological change
  • A regional case in the development of agriculture and crop processing in northern China from the Neolithic to Bronze Age: archaeobotanical evidence from the Sushui River survey, Shanxi province
  • Holocene fluctuations in human population demonstrate repeated links to food production and climate
  • The Transition to Agricultural Production in India
  • Diversification and Cultural Construction of a Crop
  • Bananas
  • Surprisingly Low Limits of Selection in Plant Domestication
  • Short communication: Massive erosion in monsoonal central India linked to late Holocene land cover degradation
  • Phytoliths and rice: From wet to dry and back again in the Neolithic Lower Yangtze
  • Alternative strategies to agriculture: the evidence for climatic shocks and cereal declines during the British Neolithic and Bronze Age (a reply to Bishop)
  • Modelling the geographical origin of rice cultivation in Asia using the rice archaeological database
  • Barnyard grasses were processed with rice around 10000 years ago
  • Anthropogenic origin of siliceous scoria droplets from Pleistocene and Holocene archaeological sites in northern Syria
  • Defining the epoch we live in
  • From early domesticated rice of the middle Yangtze basin to millet, rice and wheat agriculture: Archaeobotanical macro-remains from Baligang, Nanyang Basin, Central China (6700-500 BC)
  • The Transition to Agricultural Production in India: South Asian Entanglements of Domestication
  • From the marshes to your menu
  • Sorghum domestication revisited
  • The economic basis of the Qustul splinter state: cash crops, subsistence shifts, and labour demands in the Post-Meroitic transition
  • Old World Globalization and Food Exchange.
  • Agricultural continuity and change during the Megalithic and Early Historic Periods in South India.
  • Cereal farming and early urbanism in northern Benin: archaeobotanical results from twelve sites
  • The evolution of animal domestication
  • Early agriculture in China
  • The archaeobiology of Indian Ocean translocations: current outlines of cultural exchanges by proto-historic seafarers
  • Early agriculture in South Asia
  • Holocene Book review: William F. Ruddiman, Earth Transformed
  • Comparing medicinal uses of eggplant and related Solanaceae in China, India, and the Philippines suggests the independent development of uses, cultural diffusion, and recent species substitutions
  • Post-Pleistocene South Asia: Food Production in India and Sri Lanka
  • The limits of selection under plant domestication
  • Agriculture: Definition and overview
  • 31 South Asia: archaeology
  • Agricultural innovation and state collapse in Meroitic Nubia
  • Apricot: Origins and development
  • Millets: Origins and Development
  • Archaeobotany
  • Finger Millet: Origins and Development
  • Chickpea: Origins and Development
  • Domesticating Plants in Africa
  • Citrus Fruits: Origins and Development
  • Peach: Origins and Development
  • Pigeon Pea: Origins and Development
  • Apricot: Origins and Development
  • Lentil: Origins and Development
  • Barley: Origins and Development
  • Rice: Origins and Development
  • Buckwheat: Origins and Development
  • Brown Top Millet: Origins and Development
  • Sesame: Origins and Development
  • From the marshes to your menu
  • Plant Domestication in India
  • Review of A.G. Fahmy et al. (eds.). Windows on the African Past. Current Approaches to African Archaeobotany
  • Indian Ocean Food Globalisation and Africa
  • Overlooked But Not Forgotten: India As A Center for Agricultural Domestication
  • Comparing Pathways to Agriculture
  • The International Centre for Chinese Heritage and Archaeology (ICCHA): After a Decade of Success
  • A Contextual Approach to the Emergence of Agriculture in Southwest Asia
  • Horse Gram: Origins and Development
  • The Prehistoric Axe Factory at Sanganakallu-Kupgal (Bellary District), Southern India
  • Advances in archaeobotanical method and theory: charting trajectories to domestication, lost crops, and the organization of agricultural labour. Chapter from New Approaches to Prehistoric Agriculture, edited by Sung-Mo Ahn and June-Jeong Lee, 2009, Seoul: Sahoi Pyoungnon
  • Cultivation as slow evolutionary entanglement: comparative data on rate and sequence of domestication
  • Erratum to: Cultivation as slow evolutionary entanglement: comparative data on rate and sequence of domestication
  • Crop introduction and accelerated island evolution: archaeobotanical evidence from ‘Ais Yiorkis and Pre-Pottery Neolithic Cyprus
  • From foraging to farming in the southern Levant: the development of Epipalaeolithic and Pre-pottery Neolithic plant management strategies
  • Book Reviews
  • The archaeobotanical significance of immature millet grains: an experimental case study of Chinese millet crop processing
  • Southern Neolithic Cultivation Systems: A Reconstruction based on Archaeobotanical Evidence
  • Early plant domestications in southern India: some preliminary archaeobotanical results
  • Dhar Néma: from early agriculture to metallurgy in southeastern Mauritania
  • Shifting cultivators in South Asia: Expansion, marginalisation and specialisation over the long term
  • Investigating crop processing using phytolith analysis: the example of rice and millets
  • Archaeobotanical and GIS-based approaches to prehistoric agriculture in the upper Ying valley, Henan, China
  • Islands in the Nile: investigations at the Fourth Cataract in Sudanese Nubia
  • The Early Rice Project: From Domestication to Global Warming
  • ASIA, SOUTH | India, Deccan and Central Plateau
  • Harappan seeds and agriculture: some considerations
  • An Emerging Paradigm Shift in the Origins of Agriculture
  • The nature of selection during plant domestication
  • Japonica rice carried to, not from, Southeast Asia
  • Pathways to Asian Civilizations: Tracing the Origins and Spread of Rice and Rice Cultures
  • Ashmounds and hilltop villages: the search for early agriculture in southern India
  • Crops, cattle and commensals across the Indian Ocean
  • Agricultural Origins and Frontiers in South Asia: A Working Synthesis
  • Islands in the Nile: investigations at the Fourth Cataract in Sudanese Nubia
  • Ashmounds and hilltop villages: the search for early agriculture in southern India
  • Agricultural Origins and Frontiers in South Asia: A Working Synthesis
  • Seed Dispersal and Crop Domestication: Shattering, Germination and Seasonality in Evolution under Cultivation
  • Finding Plant Domestication in the Indian Subcontinent
  • First and second millennium a.d. agriculture in Rwanda: archaeobotanical finds and radiocarbon dates from seven sites
  • Presumed domestication? Evidence for wild rice cultivation and domestication in the fifth millennium BC of the Lower Yangtze region
  • Wild Relatives of the Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.: Solanaceae): New Understanding of Species Names in a Complex Group
  • World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492 by John L. Sorenson, Carl L. Johannessen (review)
  • Dating the Neolithic of South India: new radiometric evidence for key economic, social and ritual transformations
  • ASIA, SOUTH | Neolithic Cultures
  • World Trade and Biological Exchanges Before 1492 by John L. Sorenson, Carl L. Johannessen (review)
  • Cotton and post-Neolithic investment agriculture in tropical Asia and Africa, with two routes to West Africa

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