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Agricultural origins in north China pushed back to the Pleistocene-Holocene boundaryarticle 2009 • Crawford, Gary W.
Yellow River Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
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....The origins of rice agriculturearticle 1998 • Crawford, Gary W. & Shen, Chen
Southeast China Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
The authors discuss the results of the 2nd International Academic Conference on Agricultural Archaeology and review various sites with early rice. About half of these sites are in the middle Yangzi River valley. They provide a table of radiocarbon da...Late Neolithic plant remains from northern Chinaarticle 2005 • Crawford, Gary W. et al.
Yellow River Late Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
This is a report on plant findings from a large-scale, systematic program of flotation. The authors discuss what types and species of plant remains were found and where they were found within the site. They hypothesize as to what the remains and thei...