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- DictionaryRice/rīs/
noun
- 1. a swamp grass which is widely cultivated as a source of food, especially in Asia.
verb
- 1. force (cooked potatoes or other vegetables) through a sieve or ricer: North American "riced boiled potatoes"
Oct 29, 2014 · As humans started intentionally planting rice around 8,000 to 9,000 years ago, they sought out plants with the most desirable traits. Over time, the cultivated grass became stouter and...
The current scientific consensus, based on archaeological and linguistic evidence, is that Oryza sativa rice was first domesticated in the Yangtze River basin in China 13,500 to 8,200 years ago.
Oct 3, 2012 · 1121 Citations. 200 Altmetric. Metrics. Crop domestications are long-term selection experiments that have greatly advanced human civilization. The domestication of cultivated rice ( Oryza sativa...
Jan 4, 2012 · Rice as food and crop is central to the identities of many Asian societies, indeed most mainstream state cultures in East, Southeast and South Asia, from the Japanese to Sichuanese, to the Thai or Sri Lankan Sinhala see rice as a core part of their cultural tradition. Rice is central to the civilizations of monsoon Asia in two senses.
The earliest evidence of rice use in the middle Ganges at Lahuradewa has an AMS date of c. 6400 BCE but was plausibly wild gathered or under pre-domestication cultivation. Clear domesticated rice began to become widespread across northern India between 2000 and 1500 BCE.
May 15, 2020 · Originating around 9,000 yr ago in the Yangtze Valley, rice diversified into temperate and tropical japonica rice during a global cooling event about 4,200 yr ago. Soon after, tropical japonica...
May 29, 2017 · Archaeologists Find Evidence of the First Rice Ever Grown - The Atlantic. Science. Rice Was First Grown At Least 9,400 Years Ago. Archaeologists have unearthed bits of rice from when it was...
