Editing Millet (section)

=== Africa ===

Pearl millet (''Pennisetum glaucum'') was domesticated in the Sahel region of West Africa from ''Pennisetum violaceum''.<ref name="D'Andrea Casey 2002"/> Early archaeological evidence in Africa  includes finds at [[Kintampo Complex|Birimi]] in northern Ghana (1740 [[Radiocarbon dating#Reporting dates|cal BC]]) and  [[Dhar Tichitt]] in [[Mauritania]] (1936–1683 cal BC) and the lower Tilemsi valley in [[Mali]] (2500 to 2000 cal BC).<ref name="D'Andrea Casey 2002"/><ref name="Manning Pelling Higham 2011"/> Studies of [[isozyme]]s suggest domestication took place north east of the [[Senegal River]] in the far west of the Sahel and tentatively around 6000 BC.<ref name="D'Andrea Casey 2002">{{Cite journal  |last1=D'Andrea |first1=A. C. |last2=Casey |first2=J. |title=Pearl Millet and Kintampo Subsistence |journal=The African Archaeological Review |date=2002 |access-date=18 May 2024 |jstor=25130746 |volume=19 |issue=3 |pages=147–173 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1016518919072 |doi=10.1023/A:1016518919072 |s2cid=162042735}}</ref><ref name="Manning Pelling Higham 2011">{{cite journal |last1=Manning |first1=Katie |last2=Pelling |first2=Ruth |last3=Higham |first3=Tom |last4=Schwenniger |first4=Jean-Luc |last5=Fuller |first5=Dorian Q. |title=4500-Year old domesticated pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) from the Tilemsi Valley, Mali: new insights into an alternatives are cereal domestication pathway |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science |doi=10.1016/j.jas.2010.09.007 |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=312–322 |year=2011 |bibcode=2011JArSc..38..312M }}</ref> 

Finger millet is native to the highlands of [[East Africa]] and was domesticated before the third millennium BC.<ref name="Engels Hawkes 1991">{{cite book |title=Plant Genetic Resources of Ethiopia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WKj__YqTU4AC&q=finger+millet+domesticated+ethiopia&pg=PA162 |isbn=978-0-521-38456-8 |last1=Engels |first1=J. M. M. |last2=Hawkes |first2=J. G. |last3=Hawkes |first3=John Gregory |last4=Worede |first4=M. |date=1991 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref>