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The middle Yangtze region in China is one place where rice was domesticatedarticle 1998 • Zhao, Zhijun & Malone, Caroline
Southeast China Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
This paper reports on Diaotonghuan Cave, part of the Sino-American Jiangxi Origin of Rice project. The cave dates from 12,000-2000 B.P. Only the information that pertains to southeast China early Neolithic was indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Mat...Notes on new advancements and revelations in the agricultural archaeology of early rice domestication in the Dongting Lake regionarticle 1998 • Pei, Anping & Malone, Caroline
Southeast China Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
Two strata were found at Bashidang. The site not only had good preservation and a large quantity of preserved rice, but it had the most primitive cultivated rice. The rice showed 'characteristics between indica, japonica, and common wild rice [which]...Some botanical characteristics of green foxtail (Setaria virdis) and harvesting experiments on the grassarticle 1998 • Lu, Tracey Lie Dan & Malone, Caroline
Southeast China Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
As little is known about the process of millet domestication, Lu carried out plant observations and harvesting experiments on Setaria viridi or green foxtail. The idea was to identify the growing schedule, to observe how the plant ripened and how the...Notes on the recent discovery of ancient cultivated rice at Jiahu, Henan Provincearticle 1998 • Zhang, Juzhong et al.
Southeast China Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
Jiahu is one of the oldest places with cultivated rice with a date of 9000 B.P. The site is large with over 400 remains of houses, pits, kilns and 300 graves. The rice found is close to the length of japonica and the width of indica rice. The author ...The origins of rice agriculturearticle 1998 • Crawford, Gary W. et al.
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...The origins and dispersal of rice cultivationarticle 1998 • Higham, Charles et al.
Southeast China Early Neolithic • Asia > East Asia
The authors are interested in the question of where, when, why, and how rice was domesticated. They start with descriptions of the climate and environment of the terminal Pleistocene and Holocene. Some of these changes may have encouraged foragers to...