Early Cultivation in China: Where and When

Summary

For over 2.6 million years foragers did not demonstrate that cultivation was a way for obtaining food stability although occasional events may have escaped the archaeological records. Cultivation by hunter-gatherers across the continents (except for Australia) emerged during the Terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene as a response to limitation on mobility due essentially to competition among growing populations conceived archaeologically as "relative demographic pressure". The paper will consider the impacts of the loss of a major land due to the Pacific sea rise and Holocene environmental and social fluctuations in North and South China as triggers for millet and rice cultivation.The hypothesis concerning 'where' and 'when' in the Chinese mainland will be discussed based on current evidence.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 13239