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As preparation for the symposium and keep our discussion current, we provide here links to recent, and some forthcoming publications, that provide useful background for the state of research on rice.
Gross and Zhao (2014)聽. PNAS [闭听
This provides a summary of recent debates and hypotheses about rice origins from both genetics and archaeology. Zhao Zhijun will be speaking at the Early Rice symposium.
Fuller et al (2014).听Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record PNAS [pdf]
This includes updated data on the evolution of non-shattering and grain size in Lower Yangtze rice,
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This article reports positive results from ancient DNA extracted from charred rice grains, which differentiate indica and japonica subspecies. Results come from archaeological grains from Thailand and India, and provide support to the reliability of grain morphometrics (most of the time). This article also provides a updated genetic summary of the Proto-indica hypothesis.
Weisskopf, Alison et al. (2014) Journal of Archaeological Science [open access PDF]
This summarizes our projects approach to using phytolith assemblages to differentiate rice cultivation ecologies.
Weisskopf et al (2015). Phytoliths and rice: from wet to dry and back again in the Neolithic Lower Yangtze. Antiquity 89 (346) [pdf]
This article present a simple phytolith index for relative wetness derived from recent Early Rice Project research and applied to the early development of rice cultivation in the Lower Yangtze.
Zhuang, Y;聽Ding, P;聽French, C;聽(2014) Water management and agricultural intensification of rice farming at the late-Neolithic site of Maoshan, Lower Yangtze River, China.听HOLOCENE聽, 24 (5) 531 - 545.听.
This article uses soil micromorphology to investigate intensive wet rice cultivation in the Late Neolithic. Yijies Zhuang will be participating in our sympoiusm.
Castillo, Cristina (2011)Rice in Thailand: The Archaeobotanical Contribution Rice. [open access pdf]
This article provides a recent summary of the archaeobotany of rice in Thailand.
Bellwood, Peter (2011)聽The Checkered Prehistory of Rice Movement Southwards as a Domesticated Cereal-from the Yangzi to the Equator. Rice. [open access pdf]
This provides a synthesis on the dispersal of rice from China to Island and Mainland Southeast Asia. Prof. Bellwood will be one of the symposium speakers.
Fuller, DQ;聽van Etten, J;聽Manning, K;聽Castillo, C;聽Kingwell-Banham, E;聽Weisskopf, A;聽Qin, L;聽Sato, Y-I;聽Hijmans, RJ;- view fewer聽(2011)聽 The Holocene聽, 21 (5) 753 - 759.听.听
This article summarizes the Rice Archaeological Database as of 2011, and reconstructed methane emissions from ancient rice. An updated database and new models will be discussed at the symposium
Fuller, DQ (2011) 聽. Rice.听[]
This provides a cirtical discussion of the evidence for early rice in the Yangtze and India, and explicit statement of the Proto-indica hypothesis and some hypotheses of of the spread of rice may link to the spread of language families.
Also of interest may be Dorian's blogposts on the origins of rice from the past few year on the . Other rice related publications can be found on .