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Jiahu 1: earliest farmers beyond the Yangtze River

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:
2Department of Archaeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History, and Language and School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia (Email: hsiao-chun.hung@anu.edu.au)
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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.

Keywords

Chinaseventh millennium BCYellow RiverHuai RiverHanshui RiverYangtze RiverJiahuBaligangrice
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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 87 , Issue 335 , March 2013 , pp. 46 - 63
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 2013

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