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- Title
New evidence for rice harvesting in the early Neolithic Lower Yangtze River, China.
- Authors
Wang, Jiajing; Zhu, Jiangping; Lei, Dongrong; Jiang, Leping
- Abstract
The Lower Yangtze River of China 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 and phytolith residue analyses of 52 flaked stone tools (10000–7000 BP) from the Shangshan and Hehuashan sites. The tools reflect two harvesting methods: reaping the panicles at the top and cutting the stalk near the base. Thus, our research provides a new method for investigating prehistoric cereal cultivation, and 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.
- Subjects
CHINA; HARVESTING; NEOLITHIC Period; STONE implements; HOLOCENE Epoch
- Publication
PLoS ONE, 2022, Vol 17, Issue 12, p1
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0278200