Current issues in Chinese Neolithic archaeology

Underhill, Anne P.

doi:10.1007/bf02221203

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“…Middle Neolithic people in the region raised domesticated animals and grew crops such as foxtail millet, broomcorn millet, and possibly hemp (Cannabis sativa) and canola (rapeseed, Brassica rapa). Sites appear to have been occupied for centuries if not longer, although there is some debate regarding whether sites were moved regularly as a result of a shifting agriculture system (6).…”

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Plants and people from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China

Lee

Crawford

Liu

et al. 2007

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Plants and people from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China

Lee

Crawford

Liu

et al. 2007

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…The remains of wild game (including pigs with low ␦ 13 C and ␦ 15 N values) show that hunting persists well into the late Neolithic, but Dadiwan's Phase 2 occupants were clearly farmers heavily dependent on millet and the animals provisioned with it, living a sedentary lifestyle that entailed stable annual cycles of field preparation, cultivation, harvest, processing, storage, and protection. This Phase 2 domestic agricultural system is clearly part of the Yangshao Neolithic of the Huang He drainage (2,4,(29)(30)(31). Equally clear is that it does not originate at Dadiwan.…”

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“…t is widely believed that East Asian agriculture evolved in isolation from early agricultural developments elsewhere around the globe, producing a developmentally distinct suite of domesticates including rice, broomcorn millet, foxtail millet, pigs, dogs, and chickens (1)(2)(3)(4)(5)(6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11). Although the details of this East Asian agricultural revolution are cloudy, existing evidence points to 2 historically-independent evolutionary phenomena rooted in separate and ecologically distinct parts of mainland China: a rice-based system in the warm-humid south and a millet-based system in the cold-arid north (7,8,12,13) (Fig.…”

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Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China

Barton

Newsome²,

Chen³

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Stable isotope biochemistry (␦ 13 C and ␦ 15 N) and radiocarbon dating of ancient human and animal bone document 2 distinct phases of plant and animal domestication at the Dadiwan site in northwest China. The first was brief and nonintensive: at various times between 7900 and 7200 calendar years before present (calBP) people harvested and stored enough broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) to provision themselves and their hunting dogs (Canis sp.) throughout the year. The second, much more intensive phase was in place by 5900 calBP: during this time both broomcorn and foxtail (Setaria viridis spp. italica) millets were cultivated and made significant contributions to the diets of people, dogs, and pigs (Sus sp.). The systems represented in both phases developed elsewhere: the earlier, low-intensity domestic relationship emerged with hunter-gatherers in the arid north, while the more intensive, later one evolved further east and arrived at Dadiwan with the Yangshao Neolithic. The stable isotope methodology used here is probably the best means of detecting the symbiotic human-plantanimal linkages that develop during the very earliest phases of domestication and is thus applicable to the areas where these connections first emerged and are critical to explaining how and why agriculture began in East Asia.East Asia ͉ millet ͉ Neolithic ͉ origins of agriculture ͉ stable isotope biochemistry

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“…In the case of rice, the history of its use, cultivation and domestication is long and complex (Underhill, 1997;Lu, 1999;Sweeney and McCouch, 2007) and has been the subject of considerable research and debate. The proposal that China was one of the core areas where rice 3 agriculture originated (Chang, 1989;Glover and Higham, 1996;Wang and Sun, 1996;Crawford and Shen, 1998;Higham and Lu, 1998;Lu, 2006) has been confirmed by modern genetic research (Khush, 1997;Londo et al, 2006) that indicates domestication occurred in the south central China region more than once, with the domesticate Oryza sativa (japonica) arising from its wild perennial progenitor O. rufipogon.…”

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Environmental history, palaeoecology and human activity at the early Neolithic forager/cultivator site at Kuahuqiao, Hangzhou, eastern China

Innés

Zong

Chen

et al. 2009

Quaternary Science Reviews

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Current issues in Chinese Neolithic archaeology

Cited by 128 publications

References 51 publications

Plants and people from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China

Plants and people from the Early Neolithic to Shang periods in North China

Agricultural origins and the isotopic identity of domestication in northern China

Environmental history, palaeoecology and human activity at the early Neolithic forager/cultivator site at Kuahuqiao, Hangzhou, eastern China

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