Evidence for the early beginning (c. 9000 cal. BP) of rice domestication in China: A response

Holocene

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1059-1068

  Liu, Li ^a   Lee, Gyoung Ah ^b   Jiang, Leping ^c   Zhang, Juzhong ^d  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

China; Early agriculture; Holocene; Jiahu; Neolithic; Rice domestication; Rice morphology; Shangshan; Wild rice harvesting

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTIVATION; DOMESTICATION; HARVESTING; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; NEOLITHIC; RICE; SURVEY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HENAN; JIAHU; YANGTZE RIVER;

ZIZANIA;

EID: 38349016319     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683607085121     Document Type: Article

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