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The emergence of agriculture in southern China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Zhang Chi  and
Hsiao-chun Hung
Zhang Chi
Affiliation:
1School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China
Hsiao-chun Hung
Affiliation:
2School of Archaeology and Anthropology, A.D. Hope Building 14, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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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

Southeast AsiaChinasouthern Chinaricecultivationorigins of agricultureAustronesianAustroasiatic
Type
Research
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Antiquity , Volume 84 , Issue 323 , March 2010 , pp. 11 - 25
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2010

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