Posts related to the cultivation of plants for food.
New paper in PNAS about the earliest domestication of rice in China. Dating rice remains through phytolith carbon-14 study reveals ...
Professor Graeme Barker from the University of Cambridge was at the Australian National University recently to deliver the Golson Lecture. ...
Another PNAS paper looks at how the sweet potato made its way from South America to Oceania prior to the ...
This special double-issue on the deep history of rice in Asia has just appeared in print, with a number of ...
Scientists examining 3,000-year-old rice grains recovered from an archaeological site earlier this year have successfully sprouted them and found them ...
Rice paddies found in Hanoi, estimated to be 3,000 years old, will be sent for dating in Japan to confirm. ...
The Peking Man (homo erectus, same as the Java Man) made the news last week for being older than previously ...
When it comes to tracing the movements and migrations of prehistoric communities across Southeast Asia, the Bellwood model stands out ...
A selection of archaeology-related books, new to the catalogue of Select Books, a specialised publisher and retailer of books pertaining ...
A study tracing the origins of Asian wild rice and rice cultivation has determined that rice was likely to be ...
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