Pathways to Asian Civilizations: Tracing the Origins and Spread of Rice and Rice Cultures
By D. Fuller. Rice, 2011
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Modern genetics, ecology and archaeology are combined to reconstruct the domestication and diversification of rice. Early rice cultivation followed two pathways towards domestication in India and China, with selection for domestication traits in early Yangtze japonica and a non-domestication feedback system inferred for ‘proto-indica’. The protracted domestication process finished around 6,500–6,000 years ago in China and about two millennia later in India, when hybridization with Chinese rice took place. Subsequently farming populations grew and expanded by migration and incorporation of pre-existing populations. These expansions can be linked to hypothetical language family dispersal models, including dispersal from China southwards by the Sino-Tibetan and Austronesian groups. In South Asia much dispersal of rice took place after Indo-Aryan and Dravidian speakers adopted rice from speakers of lost languages of northern India.
Subfields: Genetics, Geography, Planning and Development, Plant Science
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- Archaeogenetic study of prehistoric rice remains from Thailand and India: evidence of early japonica in South and Southeast Asia (2016, background): “By contrast the ‘proto-indica’ cultivars (sensu Fuller and Qin 2009; Fuller et al. 2010; Fuller 2011a; 2011b) lacked several key domesticationmutations that would have been acquired through a hybridization process with domesticated japonica.”