Rice Was First Grown At Least 9,400 Years Ago
Archaeologists have unearthed bits of rice from when it was first domesticated in China.
by Sarah Zhang
May 29, 2017
2 minutes
Around 10,000 years ago, as the Pleistocene gave way to our current geological epoch, a group of hunter-gathers near China’s Yangtze River began changing their way of life. They started to grow rice.
Remarkably, archaeologists have now at a site called Shangshan. The grains, of course, were eaten long ago and the plant stalks have long been rotten, but one tiny part of rice remains even
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