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The emergence of agriculture in southern China

Date

Authors

Chi, Zhang

Hung, Hsiao-Chun

Publisher

Antiquity Publications

Abstract

The authors give us a newly documented account of the dissemination of agriculture, and rice cultivation in particular, into southern China and beyond. From the central and eastern Yangtze it spread in two prongs - east to Guangdong, Taiwan and island Southeast Asia and south to Guangxi and Vietnam.

Keywords

Keywords: Austroasiatic; Austronesian; China; Cultivation; Origins of agriculture; Rice; Southeast Asia; Southern China

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/50760

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Antiquity

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1017/S0003598X00099737

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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