The Middle Yangtze region in China is one place where rice was domesticated: phytolith evidence from the Diaotonghuan Cave, Northern Jiangxi

Publisher： Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN： 1745-1744|72|278|885-897

ISSN： 0003-598x

Source： Antiquity, Vol.72, Iss.278, 1998-12, pp. : 885-897

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Abstract

Rice, Oryza sativa L., is one of the most important cereal crops in the world, and its emergence as a domesticated subsistence plant drives much of the interest and research in archaeology in South and East Asia. The homeland of domesticated rice has been proposed as:

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