What can studying the paleoclimate of China tell us about the origins of cereal cultivation?
There are many different hypotheses about the origin of cereal cultivation. Studies conducted in the Middle East indicate that the origin of agriculture might have related to climatic and environmental changes. Is this also the case in China? I think human beings live in different environments and develop different cultures. So, why did some groups cultivate grasses while others did not? What were the causal factors for some peoples to try a new subsistence strategy? Did climatic and environmental changes play a vital role on this change? Did people cultivate cereals because they were storable, which is very important for groups living in a temperate ecozone, or for other reasons? I think the study of past climates and environments in China will help us to understand why and how cereal cultivation occurred, and the dynamics of nature, human beings, and their cultures in prehistoric China. Why did cereal cultivation occur in China at all? The idea of rice cultivation indigenously occurr
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