Holocene coastal evolution preceded the expansion of paddy field rice farming

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS Vol. 117; no. 39; pp. 24138 - 24143
• Main Authors: Ma, Ting, Rolett, Barry V., Zheng, Zhuo, Zong, Yongqiang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Academy of Sciences 29.09.2020
• Subjects: Agriculture; Agriculture - history; Asia, Eastern; Biological Sciences; Coastal plains; Cores; Cultivation; Environment; Farming; Fossils; Geography; Grain cultivation; History, Ancient; Holocene; Oryza; Pollen; Rice; Rice fields; Social Sciences; Asia, Eastern; early agriculture; Holocene paleoenvironment; land cover change; rice; pollen

Rice agriculture is the foundation of Asian civilizations south of the Yangtze River. Although rice history is well documented for its lower Yangtze homeland area, the early southward expansion of paddy rice farming is poorly known. Our study investigates this process using a compilation of paleoenv...