Roger Blench: Ethnoscience: cereals

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This page covers all my papers relating to the history of cereals, including the 2005 paper on ethnolinguistic geography, which discusses rice terminology.

Title	Date	Status
Sorghum in Africa and onwards around the world: the contribution of linguistics to understanding its spread. Powerpoint given at the Institute of Archaeology London, 23rd June, 2014.	2014	Presentation
Finger-millet: the contribution of vernacular names towards its prehistory. Archaeological and Anthropological sciences. DOI 10.1007/s12520-012-0103-6	2012	Published
Vernacular names for millets and other minor cereals in east and southeast asia and their correlation with centres of domestication and spread. Paper for submission to AASc.	2012	Submitted
Vernacular names for African millets and other minor cereals and their significance. Archaeological and Anthropological sciences. DOI 10.1007/s12520-012-0104-5	2012	Published
The contribution of vernacular names for pearl millet to its early history in Africa and Asia. Paper for journal submission.	2012	In prep.
From the mountains to the valleys: SE Asian ethnolinguistic geography. In: The peopling of East Asia. Sagart, L. Blench, R.M. & A. Sanchez-Mazas (eds.) 31-50. London: Routledge.	2005	Published
The Diffusion of Maize in Nigeria: a Historical and Linguistic Investigation. Blench, Roger M., Kay Williamson & Bruce Connell Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, XIV:19-46. Köln.	1997	Published

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