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The origins of rice agriculture: recent progress in East Asia

Antiquity • 72 • Published In 1998 • Pages: 858-866

By: Crawford, Gary W., Shen, Chen, Malone, Caroline.

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

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 dates from early sites with rice. Inside China, wild and weedy rice are lunped into one taxa, while outside China it is thought there are at least two wild rice species. DNA analysis of archaeological rice indicates only japonica has been found in the Yangzi valley during the Neolithic. This means the origin of the temperate form of rice is still unknown.

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

Dating methods in archaeology

Location

Flora

Historical reconstruction

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

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

not specified

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

10,000-5000 BP (8000-3000 B.C.)

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

south China

NotesAdditional notes

Gary W. Crawford & Chen Shen

Special section: Rice domestication, edited by Carol Malone

Includes bibliographical references (p. 865-866)

LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number

29021740

LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings

China--Antiquities