Claim · model-written summary
The pattern fits a slow development of rice exploitation from wild foraging to full cultivation.
- Taxon
- rice
Oryza sativat0 - Outcome
- slow development of rice exploitatione5
- Qualifier
- from wild foraging to agriculture involving full cultivatione5
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Verbatim
t0“Approaching rice domestication in South Asia”
e5“This pattern fits with a model of the slow development of rice exploitation from wild foraging to agriculture involving full cultivation”
Title
Approaching rice domestication in South Asia: New evidence from Indus settlements in northern India
J. Bates; C.A. Petrie; R.N. Singh Journal of Archaeological Science 2016. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2016.04.018
Other claims from this paper (6)
- Observation Across the Early Harappan to post-Indus periods, the proportion of domesticated-type rice spikelet bases increased progressively at three north-west Indian settlements.
- Observation The proportion of wild-type rice spikelet bases decreased over the same period.
- Observation Weeds accompanying rice did not show an increased proportion of wetland species over the period.
- Observation The accompanying weeds comprised a mix of wetland and dryland species.
- Mechanism The development of an independent rice tradition may have been intertwined with the practices of the eastern-most Indus peoples.
- Observation When Oryza sativa ssp. japonica arrived around 2000 BCE, the area was already familiar with domesticated rice cultivation and a range of cultivation techniques.