Domesticated rice dated back 9,400 years in China
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 07:52
in Paleontology & Archaeology
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in China has dated rice material excavated from a dig site in South China's Zhejiang province back to approximately 9,400 years ago. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the group describes where they found the evidence of early rice, their testing and dating techniques, and what they found.