The Lower Yangtze valley is widely recognized as the earliest center of rice agriculture. The
process of rice domestication, based on the morphology of spikelet bases, has been traced …

The origins of rice domestication and the beginnings of alcoholic fermentation in China are
intriguing research topics, with the Shangshan culture in the Lower Yangzi River region …

There is increasing evidence that the early rice farming communities of southern China
emerged from societies heavily dependent on acorns. Recent archaeological investigations …

Abstract The Middle and Lower Yangtze valley is recognized as the earliest centre of rice
agriculture. Rice cultivation, alongside the utilization of various starchy plants, has persisted …

This investigation delves into the utilization of tremolite, a rare mineral, as a pottery temper
for cooking vessels of the late Neolithic lower Yangtze Liangzhu culture. Raman …

We reconsider the environmental backgrounds of early millet cultures in northern China that
predate the Yangshao period (before ca. 7000 BP). Interactions among soils, millets, pigs …

Beginning in the Levant at the end of the Pleistocene era 11,700 years ago and emerging
subsequently in other regions, the advent of farming and food production sustained a …