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The oldest Neolithic culture in the Shaanxi region of China, Laoguantai culture also contains some of the earliest evidence for the rice cultivation in China, dated by C14 of around 5000 BC; dendrochronological data pushes some aspects of the culture back to 7600 BC. Similar in time to the BeiXun culture.
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• BeiXun Culture
• Dendrochronology
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Sustaining ourselves is one of the major preoccupations of humankind; hence, the invention of agriculture and herding animals.
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Ancient Chinese Rice Archaeological Project
From Bryan C. Gordon at Carleton University, a veritable treasure trove of papers on the origins of rice agriculture translated from Chinese into English.
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