ANT313H5 Lecture Notes - Kuahuqiao Site, Continental Shelf, Core Sample
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Distribution map: soy beans mostly found in china (blue dots, found some soybean in 1000bc korea (red dots, started scouring in east asia and found some in japan too (green dots) Found some strange bean and did extraction of dna. Size measurement summary of soy beans: the red ellipse represents the wild soy means, early neolithic is statistically the same, yangshao ellipse shows smaller size soybeans. Origin: old idea: zhou dynasty lineage received soybeans in the northeast (story, three separate domestication of soybeans, zhou may have been using the beans for bean sprouts which comes from smaller bean pods. Wild rice distribution: ancient rice distribution seems to be in the north (near beijing) Neolithic sites: early rice: all south of shanghai. Shangshan rice remains: nearly all the rice remains are coming from inside the pottery, using rice to make pottery? (chaft into clay, helping to bond the clay together and providing a structure for it.
