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Rice farming spread far and wide in ancient Southeast Asia, but how it got there has been a mystery. Now, a study of 4000-year-old DNA—a rare find in this region—suggests it came with farmers migrating from China, where rice farming originated. That means the hunter-gatherers already living there didn't learn farming themselves, or from ...
The earliest evidence of rice cultivation in Mainland Southeast Asia come from the Ban Chiang site in northern Thailand (ca. 2000 to 1500 BC); and the An Sơn site in southern Vietnam (ca. 2000 to 1200 BC). [10] [23] A genomic study indicates that rice diversified into Maritime Southeast Asia between 2,500 and 1,500 years ago. [18]
Photo by Eric Crystal. In mainland Southeast Asia, Tai peoples (Thai, Lao, and tribal Tai such as Black, White, and Red Tai highlanders) oftentimes graphically depict the rice goddess at harvesttime. Here there is a shared notion of the Me Khau, the “Mother of Rice.”. The Mother of Rice is the guardian of the fields.
Dec 9, 2011 · This paper discusses the origins of Oryza sativa japonica rice cultivation in the Yangzi region of China and asks how and with which migrating human populations it spread south to reach Taiwan by 3,000 BC and Southeast Asia by 2,000 BC. The perspective adopted is that the spread of rice was driven mainly by demographic expansion, associated with a spread of languages and archaeological ...
- Peter Bellwood
- peter.bellwood@anu.edu.au
- 2011
27. Our thousand-year Southeast Asian story hardly begins to tell Asia’s 8,000-year tale of rice. future rulers, living along fast-flowing streams in mountain valleys. In this eco-niche, Burmese, Tai, and Vietnamese traditions crystal-lized around an irrigated-wet-rice lifestyle that would eventually take over the lowlands.
Mar 21, 2023 · In some cases, such as in Bali, rice cultivation is seen as a sacred duty, and traditional irrigation systems are still used to grow rice. The history of rice in Southeast Asia. Rice cultivation in Southeast Asia dates back at least 5,000 years, with early evidence of rice cultivation found in the Yangtze River valley in China.
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Jan 4, 2012 · Growing evidence suggests both that some arboricultural and vegecultural economies were already established in parts of island Southeast Asia, perhaps related to the independent development of cultivation in New Guinea (Donohue and Denham 2010), and that substrate languages in island southeast Asia (which probably included some Austroasiatic taro farmers) were later subsumed by Austronesian ...
