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Beliefs in rice spirits were integral to the magical worldview of the precolonial inhabitants of the Philippine islands. Under Spanish colonialism, rice became a staple but it underwent disenchantment and symbolic marginality. By the 1870s rice production fell short relative to demand.
Jul 16, 2020 · The site of Andarayan in northern Luzon has provided the earliest evidence for the presence of rice in the Philippines (Snow et al., 1986). Rice husks and stem fragments embedded in a single earthenware sherd from the site returned direct radiocarbon dates of 1500–1400 BCE.
- Noel Amano, Greg Bankoff, David Max Findley, Grace Barretto-Tesoro, Patrick Roberts
- 2021
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Given the broad importance of domesticated rice as a food source, its origin and de-velopment from the wild species Oryza rufi-pogon have driven much of the interest and research in archaeology in East and South Asia during the last century. An early focus was the geographic origin of domesticated rice.
Jan 1, 2013 · January 2013. In book: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology (pp.6587-6590) Chapter: Origins and development of rice. Publisher: Springer. Editors: Smith C. Authors: Dorian Q Fuller. University...
Oct 29, 2014 · From a wild Asian grass to a refined crop that is the staple diet of half the world's population, the domestication of Oryza sativa spans centuries, but the grain's ancestry is hotly contested....
Jul 6, 2007 · The evolutionary history of rice is complex, but recent work has shed light on the genetics of the transition from wild ( O. rufipogon and O. nivara) to domesticated ( O. sativa) rice.
