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Modelling the Geographical Origin of Rice Cultivation in Asia Using the Rice Archaeological Database
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We have compiled an extensive database of archaeological evidence for rice across Asia, including 400 sites from mainland East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia. This dataset is used to compare several models for the geographical origins of rice cultivation and infer the most likely region(s) for its origins and subsequent outward diffusion. The approach is based on regression modelling wherein goodness of fit is obtained from power law quantile regressions of the archaeologically inferred age versus a least-cost distance from the putative origin(s). The Fast Marching method is used to estimate the least-cost distances based on simple geographical features. The origin region that best fits the archaeobotanical data is also compared to other hypothetical geographical origins derived from the literature, including from genetics, archaeology and historical linguistics. The model that best fits all available archaeological evidence is a dual origin model with two centres for the cultivation and dispersal of rice focused on the Middle Yangtze and the Lower Yangtze valleys.
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- Silva, F., Stevens, C. J., Weisskopf, A., Castillo, C., Qin, L., Bevan, A., & Fuller, D. Q.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Peking University (CN)
- Venue
- PLOS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2015-09-01
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- e0137024
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4556484
- OpenAlex
- W1825971118
- Cited by
- 146
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 17 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 18 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 28 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 3
- FWCI
- 12.39
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Bournemouth University Research Online (Bournemouth University) (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Natural Environment Research Council (NE/G005540/1, NE/K003402/1, NRCF010002)
- FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (323842)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Keywords
- rice cultivation, archaeological site, archaeobotany, power-law regression, fast marching method, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, crop domestication
- MeSH terms
- Archaeology, Asia, Geography, Models, Theoretical, Oryza, Databases, Factual
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