A journey to the west: The ancient dispersal of rice out of East Asia

RN Spengler, S Stark, X Zhou, D Fuks, L Tang… - Rice, 2021 - Springer
Rice is one of the most culturally valued and widely grown crops in the world today, and
extensive research over the past decade has clarified much of the narrative of its …

Diachronous beginnings of the Anthropocene: The lower bounding surface of anthropogenic deposits

M Edgeworth, D deB Richter, C Waters… - The Anthropocene …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Across a large proportion of Earth's ice-free land surfaces, a solid-phase stratigraphic
boundary marks the division between humanly modified ground and natural geological …

Phytoliths as a tool for investigations of agricultural origins and dispersals around the world

T Ball, K Chandler-Ezell, R Dickau, N Duncan… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Agricultural origins and dispersals are subjects of fundamental importance to archaeology
as well as many other scholarly disciplines. These investigations are world-wide in scope …

Archaeology of East Asia: the rise of civilization in China, Korea and Japan

GL Barnes - 2015 - torrossa.com
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ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan Gina L …

Phytoliths and rice: from wet to dry and back again in the Neolithic Lower Yangtze

A Weisskopf, L Qin, J Ding, P Ding, G Sun, DQ Fuller - Antiquity, 2015 - cambridge.org
The cultivation of rice has had a major impact on both societies and their environments in
Asia, and in China in particular. Phytolith assemblages from three Neolithic sites in the …

[HTML][HTML] Approaching rice domestication in South Asia: new evidence from Indus settlements in northern India

J Bates, CA Petrie, RN Singh - Journal of Archaeological Science, 2017 - Elsevier
The nature and timing of rice domestication and the development of rice cultivation in South
Asia is much debated. In northern South Asia there is presently a significant gap (c. 4200 …

Pathways of rice diversification across Asia

DQ Fuller, AR Weisskopf, C Castillo - Archaeology international, 2016 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
The archaeology of rice has made important methodological advances over the past decade
that have contributed new data on the domestication process, spread and ecology of …

The fits and starts of Indian rice domestication: How the movement of rice across northwest India impacted domestication pathways and agricultural stories

J Bates - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Rice is currently the staple food for over 3.5 billion people and is arguably the most
important crop exploited by humans. Understanding how we came to the point where a …

[HTML][HTML] Archaeobotanical implications of phytolith assemblages from cultivated rice systems, wild rice stands and macro-regional patterns

A Weisskopf, E Harvey, E Kingwell-Banham… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Rice can be cultivated in a range of arable systems, including upland rainfed, lowland
rainfed or irrigated, flooded or décrue, and deep water cultivation. These agricultural …

Agricultural diversification in West Africa: an archaeobotanical study of the site of Sadia (Dogon Country, Mali)

L Champion, DQ Fuller, S Ozainne… - Archaeological and …, 2021 - Springer
While narratives of the spread of agriculture are central to interpretation of African history,
hard evidence of past crops and cultivation practices are still few. This research aims at …