Notes on new advancements and revelations in the agricultural archaeology of early rice domestication in the Dongting Lake region

Pei, Anping

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00087512

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“…The civilization in the Yangtze River catchment was closely aligned with rice cultivation that started in the Liyang Plain as early as 7000 BC (Pei 1998(Pei , 2004; Gorodetskaya and Guo 2014), spread to the Taihu Plain around 5000 BC, and influenced the societies of the YRP by 3300 BC (Gorodetskaya 2013). In the following one thousand years, this rice culture entered the Sichuan Basin (Jiang 2015;Huang et al 2017), extended to the HRP, and reached the periphery of the Shandong Hill (Jing and Wang 2006;Jing et al 2017) (Fig.…”

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Jianghan plain, the locale of China’s Great Flood four thousand years ago

Guo,

Hsieh,

Gorodetskaya

et al. 2023

Terr Atmos Ocean Sci

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The Yellow River Plain (YRP), being regarded as the cradle of Chinese civilization, is traditionally thought to be the locale of the Great Flood, a hazardous flood (or floods) tamed by Yu who started China’s first “dynasty”, Xia, in ~ 2000 BC. However, by integrating published archaeological data, we propose that the Great Flood in fact impacted the Jianghan Plain (JHP) along the middle course of the Yangtze River. The arguments include: (1) around the era of the Great Flood, the most civilized and populated society in East Asia, named the Jianghan society, was located around the JHP (at that time, the habitation on the YRP remained limited); (2) the Jianghan society lived on river resources (shipping and rice growing) and was thus subject to flood risks (but not for the people inhabiting the YRP); (3) the people in the Jianghan society were experienced in dredging moats/ditches for shipping and irrigation; (4) unlike the floods on the YRP that were characterized by dynamic sedimentation and channel avulsion, those on the JHP typically occurred with slow-moving water manageable to ancient people; (5) the JHP has been associated with lake/wetland systems serving as detention basins during floods. Here, the recorded method for controlling the Great Flood, dredging channels to divert flood water to a “sea”, was feasible. Known speleothem paleo-rainfall data from multiple sites show that the climate of the JHP had been wet since the middle Holocene (earlier than the era of the Great Flood) and significantly turned dry after ~ 1850 BC (~ 150 years later than the Great Flood). Thus, the uniqueness of the Great Flood was likely to reflect an increase in land use on the JHP with the expansion of the Jianghan society, and the success in taming this flood was mainly due to the efforts of the society, not by luck.

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Section: Yangtze River Catchmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Jianghan plain, the locale of China’s Great Flood four thousand years ago

Guo,

Hsieh,

Gorodetskaya

et al. 2023

Terr Atmos Ocean Sci

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“…The early sites where rice was apparently cultivated seem to be focused on the Middle to Lower Yangtze valley and sites nearby. These include sites in Hunan (e.g., Anping, 1998;Hunan Provincial Institution of Archaeology and Cultural Relics [HPIACR]., 2006;Gross and Zhao, 2014;Guo and Guo, 2014), Zhejiang (e.g., Fuller et al, 2007Fuller et al, , 2009Fuller et al, , 2011Zuo et al, 2017;Qiu et al, 2019), southwest Henan (e.g., Zhang and Hung, 2013;Deng et al, 2015), Jiangsu (e.g., Zhang et al, 2014;Qiu et al, 2018), and near the Jiangsu-Shanghai border (Atahan et al, 2008). The problem with interpretation of the early dates is that sites are often not always associated with the tools of cultivation or clear evidence of sedentary societies associated with the crops.…”

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The Probable Critical Role of Early Holocene Monsoon Activity in Siting the Origins of Rice Agriculture in China

Dodson

Hung

et al. 2021

Front. Earth Sci.

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The long process of rice domestication likely started 10,000–8,000 years ago in China, and the pre-existing hunter-gatherer communities gradually adopted more sedentary lifestyles with the dependence of rice agricultural economies. The archeological evidence builds a strong case for the first domestication of rice to Oryza sativa centered in the Middle-Lower Yangtze Valley during the early Holocene. The genetic evidence identifies the main ancestor of O. sativa was O. rufipogon, however, this now occurs naturally south of the Yangtze where its distribution is limited by summer temperatures and mean annual temperature. The mismatch between occurrence of ancestors and presumed sites of early cultivation leads to a number of hypotheses. These include that first domestication actually took place further south, such as in the Pearl River valley but archeological evidence is currently lacking for this. Or domestication took place, when O. rufipogon had a more extensive natural range in the past. Early to mid-Holocene palaeoclimate reconstructions show that the East Asian Summer Monsoon was more active in the early Holocene and estimates show that the temperature requirements for O. rufipogon were met for a substantial area of northeast China at the time. This would mean that earliest known domestication sites and presumed ancestor distribution coincided for several millennia. Thus early records of rice farming in Henan and Shandong were easily accommodated by early to mid Holocene climates.

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“…Agriculture is becoming increasingly intensive and is developing towards the use of high-tech. Agriculture is an essential condition for human activity and the maintenance of a society [1,2]. Governments around the world are increasingly investing in agricultural technology development, and private sector spending is catching up with public sector spending.…”

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Orchard Free Space and Center Line Estimation Using Naive Bayesian Classifier for Unmanned Ground Self-Driving Vehicle

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Abstract:In the case of autonomous orchard navigation, researchers have developed algorithms that utilize features, such as trunks, canopies, and sky in orchards, but there are still various difficulties in recognizing free space for autonomous navigation in a changing agricultural environment. In this study, we applied the Naive Bayesian classification to detect the boundary between the trunk and the ground and propose an algorithm to determine the center line of free space. The naïve Bayesian classification requires a small number of samples for training and a simple training process. In addition, it was able to effectively classify tree trunk's points and noise points of the orchard, which are problematic in vision-based processing, and noise caused by small branches, soil, weeds, and tree shadows on the ground. The performance of the proposed algorithm was investigated using 229 sample images obtained from an image acquisition system with a Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) Image Sensor (CIS) camera. The center line detected by the unaided-eye manual decision and the results extracted by the proposed algorithm were compared and analyzed for several parameters. In all compared parameters, extracted center line was more stable than the manual center line results.

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Notes on new advancements and revelations in the agricultural archaeology of early rice domestication in the Dongting Lake region

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Jianghan plain, the locale of China’s Great Flood four thousand years ago

Jianghan plain, the locale of China’s Great Flood four thousand years ago

The Probable Critical Role of Early Holocene Monsoon Activity in Siting the Origins of Rice Agriculture in China

Orchard Free Space and Center Line Estimation Using Naive Bayesian Classifier for Unmanned Ground Self-Driving Vehicle

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