人類學系學術演講
| 講 題 | Rices, Millets and Alternative Productivities in the Establishment of Cereal Agriculture in Monsoon Asia |
| 講 者 | Professor Dorian Fuller（傅稻鐮教授）（Professor of Archaeobotany, Institute of Archaeology, University College London） |
| 時 間 | 2024.12.03 (Tue.) 12:00-14:00 |
| 地 點 | 國立臺灣大學水源校區行政大樓人201教室 |
| 演講簡介 | The accumulation of archaeobotanical data allows us to track the evolution of domestication in Chinese rice and millets. The nature of early cultivation systems, however, in northern and southern China are very different in part due to inherent differences between these crops not just in ecology but in their productivities. More productive wet rice, in the Yangtze basin, lent itself to supporting larger and denser settlements. The domestication process increased yields and labour demands, drawing increasing populations into sedentism. Domesticated rice could be intensified further on a trajectory to urbanisation. Millets, by contrast, offer lower carrying capacity and thus a very different settlement pattern of smaller communities and more frequent migration. Only later diversification of agriculture through additional crops, like soybean, or intensive integration of pigs, facilitated population density growth. In the dispersal of agriculture southwards towards southeast Asia, it is argued that a transition to upland rice that is less productive and readily combined with millets drove this rapid dispersal around 4500 years ago. Returning to the origins of millets, the implication of low productivity together with the inherent increases of the domestication process implies that millets cultivation began as a non-staple food amongst non-sedentary foragers. |
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