The Checkered Prehistory of Rice Movement Southwards as a Domesticated Cereal-from the Yangzi to the Equator

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dc.contributor.authorBellwood, Peter
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:50:59Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T09:26:15Z
dc.description.abstractThis 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 material culture. Environmental barriers also played major roles in establishing a "pause, adapt, spread, pause again" mode of movement, such barriers relating to availability of rainfall and alluvial land, latitude (photoperiodism) and climatic seasonality, and the prior presences of other populations, in some cases with vegetative gardening systems that did not involve rice or other cereals. Contingency also played its part in rice history, as we can see with the inability of this crop to spread into Oceania in part due to the route followed by Neolithic colonizers.
dc.identifier.issn1939-8433
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/58842
dc.publisherSpringer
dc.rightsAuthor/s retain copyrighten_AU
dc.sourceRice
dc.subjectKeywords: Japonica; Oryza; Oryza sativa (japonica cultivar-group) Archaeology; China; Linguistic history; Oceania; Oryza sative japonica; Prehistoric migration; Southeast Asia
dc.titleThe Checkered Prehistory of Rice Movement Southwards as a Domesticated Cereal-from the Yangzi to the Equator
dc.typeJournal article
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3-4
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage103
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage93
local.contributor.affiliationBellwood, Peter, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailrepository.admin@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidBellwood, Peter, u7300318
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.absfor070399 - Crop and Pasture Production not elsewhere classified
local.identifier.absseo820402 - Rice
local.identifier.ariespublicationf5625xPUB461
local.identifier.citationvolume4
local.identifier.doi10.1007/s12284-011-9068-9
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-84856597656
local.identifier.thomsonID000299771500003
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByf5625
local.type.statusPublished Version

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