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SUBMITTER: Barron A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5547045 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Barron Aleese A Turner Michael M Beeching Levi L Bellwood Peter P Piper Philip P Grono Elle E Jones Rebecca R Oxenham Marc M Kien Nguyen Khanh Trung NKT Senden Tim T Denham Tim T
Scientific reports 20170807 1
Rice (Oryza sativa) was domesticated in the Yangtze Valley region at least 6000-8000 years ago, yet the timing of dispersal of domesticated rice to Southeast Asia is contentious. Often rice is not well-preserved in archaeobotanical assemblages at early Neolithic sites in the wet tropics of Southeast Asia and consequently rice impressions in pottery have been used as a proxy for rice cultivation despite their uncertain taxonomic and domestication status. In this research, we use microCT technolog ...[more]