Early Mixed Farming of Millet and Rice 7800 Years Ago in the Middle Yellow River Region, China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Jianping ^a   Lu, Houyuan ^a   Gu, Wanfa ^b   Wu, Naiqin ^a   Zhou, Kunshu ^a   Hu, Yayi ^b   Xin, Yingjun ^b   Wang, Can ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology Research   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; CHINA; DRY FARMING; FARMING SYSTEM; MILLET; MIXED FARMING; NONHUMAN; RICE; RIVER;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ORYZA SATIVA; PANICUM;

PANICUM MILIACEUM; SETARIA ITALICA;

EID: 84871328822     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052146     Document Type: Article

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