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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 looked like ...
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.
- Ewen Callaway
- 2014
The history of rice cultivation is an interdisciplinary subject that studies archaeological and documentary evidence to explain how rice was first domesticated and cultivated by humans, the spread of cultivation to different regions of the planet, and the technological changes that have impacted cultivation over time.
Jun 7, 2017 · There's evidence that rice first came from Japan, Korea, China, even Australia. Now, reports Sarah Zhang at The Atlantic, a new study suggests the process to domesticate rice from its wild form ...
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Nov 2, 2015 · Abstract. Domesticated rice ( Oryza sativa L.) accompanied the dawn of Asian civilization 1 and has become one of world's staple crops. From archaeological and genetic evidence various ...
- Peter Civáň, Hayley Craig, Cymon J. Cox, Terence A. Brown
- 2015
Aug 7, 2023 · The origin of domesticated Asian rice ( Oryza sativa L.) has been controversial for more than half a century. The debates have focused on two leading hypotheses: a single domestication event in ...
Jul 6, 2007 · Background. Rice has been found in archaeological sites dating to 8000 bc, although the date of rice domestication is a matter of continuing debate. Two species of domesticated rice, Oryza sativa (Asian) and Oryza glaberrima (African) are grown globally. Numerous traits separate wild and domesticated rices including changes in: pericarp colour ...
