AMS dates and Neolithic cereal measurements from the Kashmir Prehistory Project

The Kashmir Valley is understood to be an important centre of early
agriculture in the Western Himalayas. Direct dates of prehistoric cereal
remains indicate the valley as a likely route of transmission of
agricultural systems between South, Central and East Asia. The movement of
these crops into novel mountain environments may have exerted
environmental stresses influencing the morphology of cereal crops. This
dataset presents AMS dates and measurements of carbonised cereal remains
from prehistoric sites recorded during the first phase of the Kashmir
Prehistory Project. These data may be of particular utility to regional
meta-analyses of change in cereal size in relation to cultural or
environmental factors.