Rice farming in India much older than thought, used as 'summer crop' by Indus civilization
Monday, November 21, 2016 - 04:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Latest research on archaeological sites of the ancient Indus Civilisation, which stretched across what is now Pakistan and northwest India during the Bronze Age, has revealed that domesticated rice farming in South Asia began far earlier than previously believed, and may have developed in tandem with - rather than as a result of - rice domestication in China.