Prehistoric agriculture development in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwest China: Archaeobotanical evidence

Li, Haiming; Zuo, Xinxin; Kang, Lihong; Ren, Lele; Liu, Honggao; Zhang, Naimeng; Ma, Rui; Liu, Xu

doi:10.1007/s11430-016-5292-x

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“…At Shilinggang, rice and foxtail millet are the only domestic crops that have been identified in the paleobotanical record [28]. At other Bronze Age sites such as Haimenkou and Xueshan (Fig 1), rice, wheat, barley, foxtail millet, and broomcorn millet have all been identified [79–80].…”

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“… DEM (digital elevation model) data was downloaded from Geospatial Data Cloud ( http://www.gscloud.cn/ ), and map features in the figure were modified from Li et al [ 28 ]. …”

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“…27 – 29 ]. The identification of plant remains from domestic crops indicates that there were three distinct phases of agricultural production in the region: from 4800–3900 BP when rice was first cultivated; from 3900–3400 BP when rice was planted together with foxtail millet and broomcorn millet; and from 3400–2300 BP when there was mixed rice, millet, wheat, and barley agriculture [ 28 ]. This last phase corresponds to the Bronze Age period.…”

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“…Shilinggang was the first site to be excavated in the Nujiang River Valley, which makes it a critical location for understanding human subsistence strategies in this sub-region and for expanding our understanding of the Dianbian culture. Multi-disciplinary research involving archaeologists, archaeobotanists, zooarchaeologists, and physical anthropologists has been carried out at Shilinggang since excavations began in 2013, resulting in several preliminary publications [ 28 , 36 , 37 ]. Here we report a new dataset from the stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of 16 human bones and 58 animal bones unearthed from Shilinggang.…”

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Human paleodiet and animal utilization strategies during the Bronze Age in northwest Yunnan Province, southwest China

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Reconstructing ancient diets and the use of animals and plants augment our understanding of how humans adapted to different environments. Yunnan Province in southwest China is ecologically and environmentally diverse. During the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, this region was occupied by a variety of local culture groups with diverse subsistence systems and material culture. In this paper, we obtained carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) isotopic ratios from human and faunal remains in order to reconstruct human paleodiets and strategies for animal exploitation at the Bronze Age site of Shilinggang (ca. 2500 Cal BP) in northwest Yunnan Province. The δ13C results for human samples from Shilinggang demonstrate that people’s diets were mainly dominated by C3-based foodstuffs, probably due to both direct consumption of C3 food and as a result of C3 foddering of consumed animals. Auxiliary C4 food signals can also be detected. High δ15N values indicate that meat was an important component of the diet. Analysis of faunal samples indicates that people primarily fed pigs and dogs with human food waste, while sheep/goats and cattle were foddered with other food sources. We compare stable isotope and archaeobotanical data from Shilinggang with data from other Bronze Age sites in Yunnan to explore potential regional variation in subsistence strategies. Our work suggests that people adopted different animal utilization and subsistence strategies in different parts of Yunnan during the Bronze Age period, probably as local adaptations to the highly diversified and isolated environments in the region.

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“… DEM (digital elevation model) data was downloaded from Geospatial Data Cloud ( http://www.gscloud.cn/ ), and map features in the figure were modified from Li et al [ 28 ]. …”

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“…With this, another source of mixed farming can also be observed in the Province of Shandong [3]. Some other renowned sites which are known to mixed farming such as Yiluo Valley [43], Hanshui Valley (Weisskopf et al 2015a), Chengdu Plain [44], Yungui Plateau [45], and Guanzhong Basin [46], are valuable sites in China/.. In the Middle Yellow River region, a key site named Tanghu site, which also reveals a new proof of broomcorn millet and rice mixed farming in 7800 BP that is a worthy source to understand the farming process of the two crops in the ancient Yellow River Civilization.…”

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A Critical Appraisal of Ancient Agricultural Genesis in China Emphasis on Rice, Millet and Mixed Farming: An Archaeobotanical Endeavor

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2019

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China has been noted as one of the three sovereign hubs of the origin of ancient agriculture. Specifically, millets like foxtail millet (Setaria italica) and broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum) and rice (Oryza sativa), were and are imperative crops for the ancient as well as present Chinese people. In this regard, rice and millets are valuable crops in the history of China. It is also a fact that rice and millets belong to the important river such as Yellow River (North China) and Yangtze River (South China) which are the ancient centers of Chinese civilization as well. It is also unanimously accepted that rice and millets were domesticated at the same time within a solitary expanse in China but in different regions. The available archaeobotanical record also suggests the emergence and development of the mixed farming of millets and rice in different regions in China during the Neolithic age. This paper illustrates the archaeobotanical perspectives and retrospectives of the important crops such as foxtail millet, broomcorn millet, and rice. With this, the imperative archaeological sites, ancient agricultural activities, agricultural philosophy, crop dispersal, and further archaeobotanical scenarios since Pre-historic age in China are also the chief themes of this manuscript.

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Genomic insights into Neolithic farming‐related migrations in the junction of east and southeast Asia

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American Journal of Biological Anthropology

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Objectives We aim to detect demographic history and early farming‐related migration of the crossroad area in the junction of east Asia (EA) and southeast Asia (SEA). Materials and methods We collected and genotyped 87 individuals from 6 Tibeto‐Burman and Austroasiatic‐speaking populations including Bai, Pumi, Hani, Lahu, Wa, and Blang with nearly 700,000 genome‐wide SNPs. We subsequently analyzed genetic structure and admixture using our merged dataset including both ancient and modern eastern Eurasians with PCA, ADMIXTURE, Refine‐IBD, f statistics and qpAdm. Results We observed population substructure within the studied Tibeto‐Burman populations. The northern Tibeto‐Burman groups (Bai and Pumi) had a predominant genomic legacy associated to millet‐farming from North China and also high frequencies of Y‐chromosomal haplogroup O2a2b1‐M134 (xM117) and its sub‐clades. By contrast, southern Tibeto‐Burman groups (Lahu and Hani) had more than 60% genomic legacy associated to rice‐farming, which is prevalent in present‐day Tai‐Kadai, Austronesian and Austroasiatic speaking populations. We observed strong genetic affinities between Austroasiatic populations in Yunnan (Blang and Wa) and mainland southeast Asia. Discussion Our study revealed that both demic migrations and cultural interactions from north to south and east to west since the Late Neolithic have shaped the genetic structure of populations at the crossroads of EA and SEA. The dominant genomic legacy associated with millet‐farming in northern Tibeto‐Burman populations indicates large‐scale Neolithic migrations from the Upper‐Middle Yellow River Basin. The rice‐farming expansion has deeply influenced the genetic profile of both southern Tibeto‐Burman and Austroasiatic populations, suggesting migrations from east to west via both inland and coastal routes.

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Prehistoric agriculture development in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwest China: Archaeobotanical evidence

Cited by 35 publications

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Human paleodiet and animal utilization strategies during the Bronze Age in northwest Yunnan Province, southwest China

Human paleodiet and animal utilization strategies during the Bronze Age in northwest Yunnan Province, southwest China

A Critical Appraisal of Ancient Agricultural Genesis in China Emphasis on Rice, Millet and Mixed Farming: An Archaeobotanical Endeavor

Genomic insights into Neolithic farming‐related migrations in the junction of east and southeast Asia

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