Declining oaks, increasing artistry, and cultivating rice: the environmental and social context of the emergence of farming in the Lower Yangtze Region

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Pathways to Asian Civilizations: Tracing the Origins and Spread of Rice and Rice Cultures (2011, background): “Unfortunately these regions are not equal in terms of hard evidence, and it remains the case that only the Lower Yangzte has published morphological and quantitative evidence for the domestication process as it happened, and only for the latter half of the process (Fuller and Qin 2010).”
Cultivation and domestication had multiple origins: arguments against the core area hypothesis for the origins of agriculture in the Near East (2011, background): “It is also clear that rice was cultivated alone, supplemented only by wild plants like acorns and fruits (Fuller and Qin 2010).”
Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies (2014, background): “It has traditionally been assumed that phenotypic change and new adaptations arise from new mutations, but recent research increasingly shows that standing genetic variation plays important roles in a variety of species (71).”