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Jul 3, 2019 · Chinse archaeologist Yongchao Ma and colleagues have identified three stages in the domestication process during which rice slowly changed eventually becoming a dominant part of local diets by about 2500 BCE.
A 2012 study, through genome sequencing and mapping of hundreds of rice varieties and that of wild rice populations, indicated that the domestication of rice occurred around the central Pearl River valley region of southern China, in contradiction to archaeological evidence.
Oct 29, 2014 · In the 1960s and 1970s an influential Taiwanese agriculture scientist, the late Te-Tzu Chang, collected and cultivated wild rice from across Asia and proposed a band of domestication that...
- Ewen Callaway
- 2014
Jun 7, 2017 · In the early 2000s, Stephen Chen at the South China Morning Post reports, archaeologists first discovered 18 prehistoric villages in the area of Shangshan along the Yangtze river with some...
May 29, 2017 · Chinese archaeologists began excavating Shangshan in the early 2000s. They quickly found evidence of a rice-dependent diet: rice husks buried in pottery shards and stone tools that...
Jan 1, 2016 · After 3000 B.C., rice cultivation was introduced into most parts of China and farther into neighboring regions, in some cases involving migrations of people and lifestyle along with the materials, knowledge, skills, and mechanisms of rice farming and processing.
Apr 9, 2024 · A farmer using a water buffalo to plow a terraced rice paddy in Yunnan Province, China. Many cultures have evidence of early rice cultivation, including China, India, and the civilizations of Southeast Asia. However, the earliest archaeological evidence comes from central and eastern China and dates to 7000–5000 bce.
