tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post7621526926370482389..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: China began cultivating millet 10,000 years agoDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-80810870976359432312011-10-18T03:40:39.708+03:002011-10-18T03:40:39.708+03:00"I personally believe they will find earlier ..."I personally believe they will find earlier evidence of cultivation to the South". <br /><br />But unlikely to find earlier evidence for cultivation of grains there. I'd agree with taro, yams etc.terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-36400998261199286322011-10-17T16:31:55.008+03:002011-10-17T16:31:55.008+03:00Fifty tons!
How big was this town?
Dept of Comme...Fifty tons!<br /><br />How big was this town?<br /><br />Dept of Commerce says one bushel of corn grains weighs 56 pounds. We get about 100 bushels or 5600 lbs per acre, so Cishan grain stores represent about 20 acres of crop land.sykes.1https://www.blogger.com/profile/10954672321945289871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-23785977533546344322011-10-17T14:17:52.899+03:002011-10-17T14:17:52.899+03:00"evidence of the cultivation of glutinous mil..."evidence of the cultivation of glutinous millet in the northern province of Hebei that could date back to 10,000 years"<br /><br />I have no doubt that they very well may have. I personally believe they will find earlier evidence of cultivation to the South.<br /><br />PS: I also have my suspcions about anything the ChiCom government says about anything.Pascvakshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08311382875179534062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-45920809933903561142011-10-17T05:43:27.261+03:002011-10-17T05:43:27.261+03:00"Chinese archaeologists said Sunday that they..."Chinese archaeologists said Sunday that they have found evidence of the cultivation of glutinous millet in the northern province of Hebei that could date back to 10,000 years, the earliest evidence of people growing the crop in the world". <br /><br />That moves things back towards your earlier blog concerning mtDNA expansion in East Asians. <br /><br />"it's possible that the notion of agriculture became widely known among contemporary hunter-gatherers even if they did not adopt it right away". <br /><br />I read the suggestion (somewhere) that agriculture developed as a product of the weeding of natural stands of desirable vegetation. That system of agriculture could be very ancient, and have developed just once. From then on 'advanced' agriculture would be a natural development.terrythttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17327062321100035888noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-72287628457595782382011-10-17T02:53:45.056+03:002011-10-17T02:53:45.056+03:00Evidently they had domesticated chickens by 8000 Y...Evidently they had domesticated <a href="http://www.izuba.info/w/spip.php?page=ref&id_syndic_article=974709" rel="nofollow">chickens</a> by 8000 YA. The articles you linked to said:<br /><br />"<i>In addition to grain remnants, pottery, stone tools, animal bones and bone artefacts have also been excavated from the site. </i>" I would <b>really</b> like to know what animals, and how much signature of domestication there was.<br /><br />I recently ran across a theory that agriculture was invented for cloth (fiber, including fodder for fiber-bearing animals) and only later used for food. (Gilligan 2010) It seems sort of revolutionary, but I wonder.<br /><br />Gilligan, I. (2010) <a href="https://digital.lib.washington.edu/ojs/index.php/BIPPA/article/viewFile/9978/10664" rel="nofollow">Agriculture in Aboriginal Australia: Why Not?</a> <i>BULLETIN OF THE INDO-PACIFIC PREHISTORY ASSOCIATION</i> 30, 2010AKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10905636789614137068noreply@blogger.com