Assessing the occurrence and status of wheat in late Neolithic central China: the importance of direct AMS radiocarbon dates from Xiazhai

Z Deng, DQ Fuller, X Chu, Y Cao, Y Jiang… - Vegetation History and …, 2020 - Springer
The introduction of wheat into central China is thought to have been one of the significant
contributions of interactions between China and Central Asia which began in the 3rd …

Prehistoric evolution of the dualistic structure mixed rice and millet farming in China

K He, H Lu, J Zhang, C Wang, X Huan - The Holocene, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Compared with the monistic structure of crop agriculture in Southwest Asia and
Mesoamerica, agriculture in ancient China reflects the characteristics of a dualistic structure …

From early domesticated rice of the middle Yangtze Basin to millet, rice and wheat agriculture: Archaeobotanical macro-remains from Baligang, Nanyang Basin …

Z Deng, L Qin, Y Gao, AR Weisskopf, C Zhang… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Baligang is a Neolithic site on a northern tributary of the middle Yangtze and provides a long
archaeobotanical sequence from the Seventh Millennium BC upto the First Millennium BC. It …

[HTML][HTML] Human adaptation to Holocene environments: Perspectives and promise from China

E Berger, K Brunson, B Kaufman, GA Lee, X Liu… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reviews recent archaeological research on human-environment interaction in the
Holocene, taking continental China as its geographic focus. As China is large …

Early agriculture at the crossroads of China and Southeast Asia: Archaeobotanical evidence and radiocarbon dates from Baiyangcun, Yunnan

R Dal Martello, R Min, C Stevens, C Higham… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
We report archaeobotanical results from systematic flotation at what is presently the earliest
Neolithic site with hard evidence for crop cultivation in the Southwestern Chinese province …

Temporal changes of mixed millet and rice agriculture in Neolithic-Bronze Age Central Plain, China: Archaeobotanical evidence from the Zhuzhai site

C Wang, H Lu, W Gu, X Zuo, J Zhang, Y Liu… - The …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Mixed millet and rice agriculture is a unique agricultural style of China, and is distributed in a
broad band between the Yangtze and Yellow River basin. However, the development of this …

Social Complexification and Pig (Sus scrofa) Husbandry in Ancient China: A Combined Geometric Morphometric and Isotopic Approach

T Cucchi, L Dai, M Balasse, C Zhao, J Gao, Y Hu… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Pigs have played a major role in the economic, social and symbolic systems of China since
the Early Neolithic more than 8,000 years ago. However, the interaction between the history …

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 …

Human diets during the social transition from territorial states to empire: Stable isotope analysis of human and animal remains from 770 BCE to 220 CE on the Central …

L Zhou, SJ Garvie-Lok, W Fan, X Chu - Journal of Archaeological Science …, 2017 - Elsevier
Chinese history from the Eastern Zhou to the Han Dynasty (770 BCE to 220 CE) witnessed a
social transition from conflicting territorial states to a prosperous empire. This study …

Broomcorn and foxtail millet were cultivated in Taiwan about 5000 years ago

CH Tsang, KT Li, TF Hsu, YC Tsai, PH Fang, YIC Hsing - Botanical studies, 2017 - Springer
Background Archaeobotanical remains of millet were found at the Nan-kuan-li East site in
Tainan Science Park, southern Taiwan. This site, dated around 5000–4300 BP, is …