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Notes on the recent discovery of ancient cultivated rice at Jiahu, Henan Province: a new theory concerning the origin of ORYZA JAPONICA in China

Antiquity • 72 • Published In 1998 • Pages: 897-901

By: Zhang, Juzhong, Wang, Xiangkun, Malone, Caroline.

AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document

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 concludes cultivated rice originated in the upper Huai River region and in the middle Yangtze River region at approximately the same time. However, human interference was stronger in the Huai River region and the grain shape changed more quickly there.

SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF

Identification

Cereal agriculture

Chronologies and culture sequences

traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)

Southeast China Early Neolithic

HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document

2005

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

5: Excellent Primary Data

AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection

Sarah Berry ; 2004

Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document

six field seasons since 1983

Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to

9000-5000 BP (7000-3000 B.C.)

Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)

upper Huai River and middle Yangtze River regions, China

NotesAdditional notes

Zahng Juzhong & Wang Xiangkun

Special section: Rice domestication, edited by Carol Malone

Includes bibliographical references (p.901)

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

29021740

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

China--Antiquities