On March 21, Wu Yan, a young researcher at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Agency in Beijing, explaining the latest research results of crop remains at the Jingshuidun site.
When did dryland crops such as millet and millet originate in northern China spread to southern Anhui where rice is the mainstay?
A newly completed archaeological study of plant remains by researchers at the Jingshuidun site in Xuancheng, Anhui found that 2,600 years ago, from the late Western Zhou Dynasty to the early Spring and Autumn Period, the ancestors of Jingshuidun had begun to plant millet, and formed a rice and millet mixed agriculture in the local area. .
The direct dating results of the large plant remains of millet at the Jingshuidun site are 2667-2568 years ago. During this period, a large number of millet remains and the discovery of millet phytoliths are the first cases in southern Anhui.
This study provides new evidence for further understanding of the agricultural development and the propagation route of millet in southern Anhui since the late Neolithic period.
(Reporter Sun Zifa produced Lv Huiqian)
Responsible editor: [Li Yuxin]