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Until now, most of the early rice remains in China were found in the middle to lower reaches of the Yangtze River drainage. Recently, rice remains earlier than 8000 B.P. were found from Jiahu site (8942-7801 B.P.) in Wuyang County of Henan Province, central China. This is the earliest cultivated rice found at this latitude (33°37’N), which is far outside the current distribution of wild rice species. The discovery is of great implications. It suggests that central China may be one of the centers of early rice domestication.
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Chen, B., Jiang, Q. Antiquity of the earliest cultivated rice in central China and its implications. Econ Bot 51, 307–310 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02862100
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