The New World tropical forest is now considered to be an early and independent cradle of
agriculture. As in other areas of the world, our understanding of this issue has been …

Grains are a substantial source of macronutrients and energy for humans. Lactic acid (LA)
fermentation is the oldest and most popular way to improve the functionality, nutritional …

Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the most important cereal grains in the world today and serves
as a staple food source for more than half of the world's population. Research into when …

The invention of pottery introduced fundamental shifts in human subsistence practices and
sociosymbolic behaviors. Here, we describe the dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong …

In the past 10 years, flotation techniques have been introduced and implemented in Chinese
archaeology. As a result, a tremendous quantity of plant remains have been recovered from …

The study of crop origins has traditionally involved identifying geographic areas of high
morphological diversity, sampling populations of wild progenitor species, and the …

This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

Phytolith remains of rice (Oryza sativa L.) recovered from the Shangshan site in the Lower
Yangtze of China have previously been recognized as the earliest examples of rice …

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal
throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing archaeological, linguistic and biological …

Modern genetics, ecology and archaeology are combined to reconstruct the domestication
and diversification of rice. Early rice cultivation followed two pathways towards …