Learning from Paleo-Landscapes: Defining the Land-Use Systems of the Ancient Malayo-Polynesian Homeland

Carson, Mike T.; Hung, Hsiao‐chun

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“…Another direct C14 date of 3,975-3,380 (3,400 ± 125) ybp came from a single rice husk found inside pottery at Andarayan, northern Luzon, Philippines 15 . Other more recent studies have reported charred rice grains in archaeological deposits close to 3,000 ybp in northern Luzon 16 , and additional rice phytolith evidence has been reported previously from Minanga Sipakko and the nearby site of Kamassi in Sulawesi 17 .…”

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“…In ISEA, red-slipped thin-walled pottery has been dated at several sites in Taiwan to as early as 4,800-4,200 ybp. A related pottery tradition thereafter appeared in the northern Philippines around 4,200-4,000 ybp 16,23,24,31,32 . Over the next few centuries, this archaeological signature spread southwards into the central and southern Philippines, eastern Indonesia [33][34][35][36] , and the western islands of Remote Oceania 37 .…”

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Validating earliest rice farming in the Indonesian Archipelago

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Preserved ancient botanical evidence in the form of rice phytoliths has confirmed that people farmed domesticated rice (Oryza sativa) in the interior of Sulawesi Island, Indonesia, by at least 3,500 years ago. This discovery helps to resolve a mystery about one of the region's major events in natural and cultural history, by documenting when rice farming spread into Indonesia, ultimately from a source in mainland China. At the Minanga Sipakko site in Sulawesi, preserved leaf and husk phytoliths of rice show the diagnostic morphology of domesticated varieties, and the discarded husks indicate on-site processing of the crops. The phytoliths were contained within an undisturbed, subsurface archaeological layer of red-slipped pottery, a marker for an evidently sudden cultural change in the region that multiple radiocarbon results extend back to 3,500 years ago. The results from Minanga Sipakko allow factual evaluation of previously untested hypotheses about the timing, geographic pattern, and cultural context of the spread of rice farming into Indonesia, as well as the contribution of external immigrants in this process.

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Validating earliest rice farming in the Indonesian Archipelago

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“…1) could not support rice field systems comparable in scale to those that developed in coastal areas. Outside the southeastern Asian mainland, islands such as Taiwan and the Philippines also lacked coastal plains suitable for extensive paddy rice cultivation during the mid-Holocene (16,26). Neolithic rice remains, such as those found in sites along paleoshorelines in west Taiwan, indicate that some small wetlands on the edge of islands may have encouraged the practice of Neolithic wet rice farming (26).…”

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“…South of the Yangtze there are currently no more than 20 sites yielding direct archaeobotanical evidence of rice during the period from ∼5 to 3 ka. There are directly dated carbonized rice remains from several sites but often the evidence can only establish the presence of rice, without offering insight into the cultivation strategies employed ( 14 – 16 ).…”

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Holocene coastal evolution preceded the expansion of paddy field rice farming

Rolett

Zheng

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

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Rice agriculture is the foundation of Asian civilizations south of the Yangtze River. Although rice history is well documented for its lower Yangtze homeland area, the early southward expansion of paddy rice farming is poorly known. Our study investigates this process using a compilation of paleoenvironmental proxies from coastal sediment cores from southeast China to Thailand and Island Southeast Asia. We propose that a shortage of land suitable for paddy fields, caused by marine transgression, constrained rice agriculture during the mid-Holocene. Rapid expansion of coastal plains, particularly in deltaic basins, over the past three millennia has coincided with increases in land suitable for rice cultivation. Our study also helps explain the past population movements of rice farmers.

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“…He demonstrates that such representations often overlook the complex and highly situated interplay of past investment and land infrastructure that might obstruct even the most ambitious forms of ecological imperialism. This and other archaeological research are moving beyond studies of adaptation to a “natural” environment and instead are seeking to understand how those who strive to shape the environment must work with the materials and the problems—the terraces, the imported soils, the arrays of infrastructure, the concepts of “resources”—that they inherit from the past (Carson and Hung ; Johansen and Bauer ; Quintus ; Vining ; Wilkinson ). Other studies are going further, challenging environmental histories that cast humanity in a central role by imagining and implementing a “multispecies archaeology” that comprises nonhumans, plants, soils, microbes, and DNA (S. Birch ; Given ).…”

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New Digs: Networks, Assemblages, and the Dissolution of Binary Categories in Anthropological Archaeology

Kosiba

2019

American Anthropologist

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Anthropological archaeology has long been a process of categorization. The history of the subdiscipline could be rendered in terms of an ongoing project to create, critique, and then refashion the categories by which archaeologists understand and explain social and ecological processes. Despite ever-changing theoretical tides, many archaeologists have continued to adhere to a lingua franca that demarcates their object of study, whether "the past," "nature," complexity, material culture, or historical knowledge. In 2018, strong currents in archaeological scholarship have both challenged and washed out the boundaries of many of these epistemological mainstays. This was more than a postmodern exercise to question metanarratives of history or to destabilize supposed social universals. The recent scholarship develops innovative theoretical perspectives and sophisticated methodological tools to shed light on the varied human interactions, practices, and projects that were previously occluded by research too sharply focused on bounded categories such as periods, polities, adaptations, and meanings. Furthermore, archaeologists are now more than ever critically examining the colonial institutions that they perpetuate and seeking to establish new common ground with Indigenous communities. A decidedly archaeological perspective seems to be taking shape.This is a view that sees social life from the ground up in terms of complicated relationships between people, things, and other organisms that cannot be reduced to catchall categories. [year in review, archaeology, archaeological theory, current issues, Indigenous archaeology, environmental anthropology] RESUMEN La arqueología antropológica ha sido durante mucho tiempo un proceso de categorización. La historia de la subdisciplina podría ser descrita en términos de un proyecto continuo de crear, criticar y luego rehacer las categorías a través de las cuales los arqueólogos entienden y explican los procesos sociales y ecológicos. A pesar de las mareas teóricas siempre cambiantes, muchos arqueólogos han continuado adhiriéndose a una lengua franca que demarca su objeto de estudio, ya sea "el pasado", "naturaleza", complejidad, cultura material o conocimiento histórico.En 2018, corrientes fuertes en la investigación arqueológica han tanto retado como difuminado los límites de muchos de los pilares epistemológicos. Esto fue más que un ejercicio posmoderno para cuestionar metanarrativas de la historia o para desestabilizar supuestos universales sociales. La reciente investigación desarrolla perspectivas teóricas innovadoras y herramientas metodológicas sofisticadas para arrojar luz sobre las variadas interacciones humanas, prácticas y proyectos que estuvieron previamente ocluidos por investigación excesivamente enfocada en categorías delimitadas tales como períodos, unidades políticas, adaptaciones y significados. Además, los arqueólogos ahora están más que nunca examinando críticamente las instituciones coloniales que perpetúan y buscando establecer un nuevo terreno común con las c...

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Learning from Paleo-Landscapes: Defining the Land-Use Systems of the Ancient Malayo-Polynesian Homeland

Abstract: This study Cultural layer, beneath shell midden Beta-416882 Charcoal 2810 5 30 1050-895 BC (95.4) This study Cultural layer, beneath shell midden Beta-426160 Animal bone 2860 5 30 1118-929 BC (95.4) This study

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Validating earliest rice farming in the Indonesian Archipelago

Validating earliest rice farming in the Indonesian Archipelago

Holocene coastal evolution preceded the expansion of paddy field rice farming

New Digs: Networks, Assemblages, and the Dissolution of Binary Categories in Anthropological Archaeology

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