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New radiocarbon evidence on early rice consumption and farming in South China
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While the possibility of indigenous rice cultivation cannot be entirely ruled out, there is increasing evidence suggesting that rice farming was introduced to South China during the late-Holocene. However, determination of the exact timing of the spread of rice farming to South China is fraught with the lack of reliable radiocarbon dates. In this article, we present 15 new AMS 14 C dates of charred plant remains recovered from late-Holocene sites of Shixia and Guye in Guangdong Province of South China. Our new AMS 14 C dates suggest a later arrival of rice farming in the Pearl River Delta than previously thought. These new AMS 14 C dates will shed new lights to an improved understanding of the environmental background and ecology of the southward spread of rice farming.
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“An analysis of the material culture (including pottery decoration) associated with these agriculturalists suggests that rice and millet cultivating communities dispersed from the Yangtze valley (89–92) into southern China, where they arrived by the mid-third millennium BCE (90, 93). From there, they continued into peninsular Southeast Asia, where people following distinct dispersal pathways emph”
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- Authors
- Yang, X., Wang, W., Zhuang, Y., Li, Z., Ma, Z., Ma, Y., Cui, Y., Wei, J., & Fuller, D. Q.
- Affiliations
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- University College London (GB)
- Peking University (CN)
- Guangdong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, China
- Guangdong Museum, China
- Venue
- The Holocene
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-11-25
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 1045-1051
- ISSN
- 0959-6836 (ISSN-L)
- 1477-0911
- OpenAlex
- W2550959851
- Cited by
- 105
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 43 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6
- FWCI
- 7.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- discovery.ucl.ac.uk
- Locations
- The Holocene (publishedVersion)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- The National Science and Technology Major Project of China (2015CB953801)
- The National Natural Science Foundation of China (41371217)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Keywords
- rice cultivation, rice domestication, Late Holocene, charred plant remains, AMS radiocarbon dating, Pearl River Delta, South China, Guangdong
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