Role of dynamic environmental change in sustaining the protracted process of rice domestication in the lower Yangtze River

K He, H Lu, H Zheng, Q Yang, G Sun, Y Zheng… - Quaternary Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent increases in archaeobotanical and genetic evidence offer insights into agricultural
origins and plant domestication, which suggest a protracted process taking thousands of …

A review of paleofloods in the middle-lower reaches of the Yangtze River during the Holocene: Processes, causes and effects

Z Zhang, Z Zhang, J Xu, J Chen, Z Shen, X Jia… - Quaternary Science …, 2024 - Elsevier
The understanding of the flooding processes in the entire basin of the middle-lower reaches
of the Yangtze River (MLRYR) during the Holocene remains elusive. This is primarily …

Dynamic identification and health assessment of wetlands in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River basin under changing environment

Y Liu, P Yang, S Zhang, W Wang - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Recently, the wetland in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River Basin (MYRB) has been
impacted by the human activities and climate change, thereby restricting sustainable …

Cultural response to Middle Holocene sea‐level fluctuations in eastern China: a multi‐proxy approach

KY He, HY Lu, YN Li, FY Ding, J Zhang, C Wang - Boreas, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Middle Holocene period witnessed significant environmental and cultural transitions
regarding the deceleration of sea‐level rise and the emergence of early agriculture, which …

Process of rice domestication in relation to Holocene environmental changes in the Ningshao Plain, lower Yangtze

K Shao, J Zhang, H Lu, Z Gu, B Xu, H Zheng, G Sun… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the process of domestication and its relationship with environmental
changes is fundamental to rice domestication research. The lower Yangtze region in China …

Agriculture and Holocene deforestation in eastern China

J Dodson, X Li, M Song - Quaternary International, 2024 - Elsevier
Humans have had profound and environmentally changing impacts on land cover, and
China has many examples of this. It has been recognised for some time that middle to late …

Revisiting the archaeological investigations of rice domestication in China during 10,000–7,000 BP in a human behavioral context

Y Pan - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2023 - frontiersin.org
In East Asian archaeology, initial domestication and early dispersal of rice have
continuously attracted scholarly interest in the recent decade, which has generated …

Neolithic human adaptations to the environmental changes in the Jianghan Plain, middle Yangtze Valley

Y Li, Y Gu, M Jiang, S Fang, Z Fu, S Guan, R Liu… - Quaternary Science …, 2025 - Elsevier
In order to explore the interactions among human activities, hydroclimate, and sea-river-lake
level fluctuations in the mid-lower Yangtze Valley since the Neolithic, this study, based on …

Rice farming mediated internal competition and reduced external risks during the Neolithic period

X Chen, Y Liu, X Zhao, S Liu, N Zhao, X Lai… - Quaternary Science …, 2025 - Elsevier
Rice cultivation and domestication are among the most transformative processes in human
history, yet the internal driving forces behind these developments remain unclear. To …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of the Agricultural Demographic Transition in China

J Li, JP Bocquet-Appel - Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
The signal of the Agricultural Demographic Transition (ADT) has been detected in northern
China (3912 sites/Loess plateau layers: millet domestication) and in eastern China (396 …