Evidence of the earliest rice cultivation in …
Years: 7101BCE - 6958BCE
Evidence of the earliest rice cultivation in the Yellow River basin comes from carbonized rice grains from the Yuezhuang site in Jinan, Shandong.
The carbonized rice is dated using AMS radiocarbon dating to 7050±80.
Archaeologists also excavated millet from the Yuezhuang site.
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Topics
- Neolithic Revolution
- Boreal Period
- Neolithic Subpluvial, or Holocene climatic optimum, or Holocene Wet Phase
