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Several distinguished archaeologists who had close links to the Institute have died during the past year. Brief obituaries are given here and reference made to some of the obituaries available elsewhere.

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Pathways of Rice Diversification across Asia

Dorian Q Fuller, Alison R. Weisskopf, Cristina Cobo Castillo (2016)

The archaeology of rice has made important methodological advances over the past decade that have contributed new data on the domestication process, spread and ecology of cultivation. Growing evidence from spikelet bases indicates that non-shattering, domesticated forms evolved gradually in the Yangtze basin and that there were at least two distinct processes around the Middle Yangtze region pre-dating 6000 BC, and the in the Lower Yangtze region between 6000 and 4000 BC. Early rice cultivation in these areas was based on wet field ecologies, in contrast to rainfed rice that is indicated among the earliest systems in India. When rice first spread north it was not entirely suited to shorter temperate summer growth seasons, and we are able to infer from high levels of apparently green-harvested spikelets that genetic adaptations to temperate conditions evolved after 2000 BC. When rice first spread south, to mainland Southeast Asia, after 2500 BC, it was grown in rainfed, dry ecologies that were less labour-demanding and less-productive. More productive and intensive irrigated rice then redeveloped in Southeast Asia around 2000 years ago, supporting growing population densities and social complexity.

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Archaeobotanical implications of phytolith assemblages from cultivated rice systems, wild rice stands and macro-regional patterns

Alison Weisskopf, Emma Harvey, Eleanor Kingwell-Banham … (2014)

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Phytoliths and rice: from wet to dry and back again in the Neolithic Lower Yangtze

Dorian Q Fuller, Pin Ding, Jinglong Ding … (2015)

The cultivation of rice has had a major impact on both societies and their environments in Asia, and in China in particular. Phytolith assemblages from three Neolithic sites in the Lower Yangtze valley reveal that in early rice fields the emphasis was on drainage to limit the amount of water and force the rice to produce seed. It was only in the later third millennium BC that the strategy changed and irrigated paddies came into use. The results demonstrate that plant remains, including weed assemblages, can reveal wetter or drier growing conditions, showing changes in rice cultivation from flooded and drained fields to large, intensively irrigated paddies.

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Title: Archaeology International

Abbreviated Title: AI

Publisher: Ubiquity Press, Ltd.

ISSN (Electronic): 2048-4194

Publication date Created: December 5 2018

Publication date (Electronic): December 5 2018

Volume: 21

Issue: 1

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DOI: 10.5334/ai-390

SO-VID: 3770fae8-df0d-4978-9004-9bf38dff3e14

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Pathways of Rice Diversification across Asia

Archaeobotanical implications of phytolith assemblages from cultivated rice systems, wild rice stands and macro-regional patterns

Phytoliths and rice: from wet to dry and back again in the Neolithic Lower Yangtze

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