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Agricultural origins in north China pushed back to the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America • 106 (18) • Published In 2009 • Pages: 7271-7272
By: Crawford, Gary W..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The author looks at early millet agriculture at the site of Cishan, urging further studies of millet and other botanical remains throughout North China in order to understand the domestication of millet and the first agricultural communities.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Flora
- Cereal agriculture
- Settlement patterns
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yellow River Early Neolithic
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2018
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 10400-7500 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cishan, Wu'an, Hebei, China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gary W. Crawford
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 7272)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 16010069
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yellow River Early Neolithic