Qiu, Zhenwei;
Zhuang, Lina;
Rao, Huiyun;
Lin, Liugen;
Zhuang, Yijie;
(2022)
Excavation at Hanjing site yields evidence of early rice cultivation in the Huai River more than 8000 years ago.
Science China Earth Sciences
, 65
pp. 910-920.
10.1007/s11430-021-9885-x.
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Abstract
Through the analysis of macro- and micro-plant remains, food residues and the rice-field like features from the mid-Neolithic site of Hanjing in the Huai River region, we propose an early beginning of rice cultivation at Hanjing. The presence of non-shattering rice spikelet bases and the increasing percentages of rice phytoliths confirm the appearance of domesticated rice in the Hanjing archaeobotanical assemblage. However, as indicated by the different prediction rates of rice domestication shown by morphometric of the double-peaked Oryza-type glum cells and fish-scale decorations on the Oryza-type bulliform cells from different cultural phases before 7,000 a BP, rice cultivation was at an early stage of development. Our findings provide new and significant evidence towards the establishment of the Huai River as another important center for early rice cultivation and domestication in prehistoric China.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Excavation at Hanjing site yields evidence of early rice cultivation in the Huai River more than 8000 years ago |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11430-021-9885-x |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11430-021-9885-x |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Rice field-like features, Oryza-type bulliform, Double-peaked Oryza-type, Rice cultivation, Rice domestication |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10146677 |
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