Sentence examples for earliest rice from inspiring English sources
But the earliest rice farmers cultivated the plants at the margins of wetlands, where the water was not as deep.
Nevertheless based on current evidence, which is rapidly improving for Yunnan at least, the earliest rice farming in the upper Yangtze dates only from 2500 2000 BC at the earliest.
The excavation teams of pretty much any late Pleistocene cave or Early Holocene settlement in South China have laid claim to theirs being the site and area of earliest rice farming.
At present there is a surfeit of evidence for changes in the rice plant that indicate domestication but there is a surplus of claims and proclamations for the earliest rice, the earliest agriculture.
The earliest rice cultivation on the Ryukyu Islands occurred in ca. 1100 BP and was not introduced from southern China; instead, it was introduced at the time of human immigration from Kyushu into the region [11], [14].
South of the Yangzi River, work in Taiwan and Vietnam date the earliest rice finds there to roughly the same time period, 2500 2000 bc (Higham and Lu, 1998).
Many cultures have evidence of early rice cultivation, including China, India, and the civilizations of Southeast Asia.
The case for early rice use in the Ganges has been dealt with in detail.
Many environmental and genetic factors affect early rice growth and establishment in the field.
The survey covered early rice (92 surveyed farmers), intermediate rice (77 farmers), and late rice (96 farmers).
