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New evidence for rice harvesting in the early Neolithic Lower Yangtze River, China
Jiajing Wang, Jiangping Zhu, Dongrong Lei & Leping Jiang 2022
PLoS ONE 17(12),e0278200
doi org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278200
The Lower Yangtze has been identified as an independent center of rice-domestication,
but tracing the earliest evidence for rice-cultivation practices has been challenging.
Here we report the first evidence for rice-harvesting, based on use-wear & phytolith residue analyses of 52 flaked stone tools (10–7 ka), Shangshan & Hehuashan sites.
The tools reflect 2 harvesting methods:
- reaping the panicles at the top,
- cutting the stalk near the base:
our research provides a new method for investigating prehistoric cereal cultivation,
the data lend support to the evidence of rice domestication in the early Holocene.
The results also show the complexity of rice harvesting strategies several millennia before the emergence of full-fledged agriculture in the Lower Yangtze.
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Our ancestors have always preferred to eat salmon & oysters + rice:
only incredible imbeciles believe they ran after antelopes.
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