caa a22 4500 388055324 CHVBK 20180307125104.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199812 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00087500 doi S0003598X00087500 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00087500 The origins and dispersal of rice cultivation [Elektronische Daten] Domesticated rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the five major crops in the world and a staple food for more than 30% of the world population. Yet the question of where, when, why and how the domestication of rice originated has been, and still is, a question under debate. However, as more archaeological and archaeobotanic discoveries have recently come to light, the question of the origin of rice cultivation now seems less elusive than it was a few decades ago. To date, both archaeological and archaeobotanic discoveries seem to indicate that rice cultivation first began in the middle Yangzi Valley by 8500-8000 years BP, and subsequently expanded to south China and Southeast Asia. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1998 rice nationallicence cultivation nationallicence the Yangzi valley nationallicence Southeast Asia nationallicence Higham Charles Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand, charles.higham@stonebow.otago.ac.nz Lu Tracey L.-D Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia, rfylung@ibm.net Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/278(1998-12), 867-877 0003-598X 72:278<867 1998 72 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00087500 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00087500 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Higham Charles Department of Anthropology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand, charles.higham@stonebow.otago.ac.nz NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lu Tracey L.-D Department of Archaeology, La Trobe University, Bundoora VIC 3083, Australia, rfylung@ibm.net NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/278(1998-12), 867-877 0003-598X 72:278<867 1998 72 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 10245020X BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge