Jiahu 1: Earliest farmers beyond the Yangtze River

Chi, Zhang; Hung, Hsiao-Chun

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Jiahu 1: Earliest farmers beyond the Yangtze River

Date

2013

Authors

Chi, Zhang

Hung, Hsiao-Chun

Publisher

Antiquity Publications

Abstract

The authors summarise the latest evidence for the introduction of rice cultivation into northern China, and show that it most probably began there in the early seventh millennium BC as a result of influence or migration from the Yangtze Valley.