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The Origins of Agriculture in China: From Hunting and Gathering to Early Farming
February 10, 2012
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Presented by Ofer Bar-Yosef, Harvard University. The transition from hunting and gathering to cultivation of wild plants was initiated by semi-sedentary communities some 11,000 years ago. Among the earliest East Asian pioneering foragers were those who lived in North China who started cultivating wild millet. Within one or two millennia the annually cultivated millet became domesticated and was joined by corralling and eventual domestication of pigs. Stable food production and storage allowed for a rapid demographic increase and the spread of villages to the periphery of the core area. It is suggested that the natural richness of plant and animal resources in South China resulted in the delayed cultivation and the domestication of the rice. Sponsored by the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World and the Friends of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. A Year of China event.
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Brown University - Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology
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February 10, 2012Times:
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