Journal
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 348, Issue -, Pages 183-193Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.02.008
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- CAS Strategic Priority Research Program [XDA05130603-B]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41072135]
- National Social Science Foundation of China [11AZD116]
- German Research Foundation [DFG A 540/5-1]
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The transition from hunting and gathering to farming in the early Holocene is one of the focal points in the discussion regarding the emergence of agriculture in China. The current study presents new results of plant macrofossil analysis obtained from the Zhangmatun archaeological site in Shandong Province in the eastern part of China. The archaeobotanical data shows the presence of diverse wild plants together with a small amount of foxtail and broomcorn millet grains. The identification of these important cereal crops at Zhangmatun extends the record of the exploitation of early millet in this part of China, though hunting, fishing and gathering remained the common subsistence strategy adopted by contemporary residents of the Shandong Highlands about 9000-8500 years ago. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
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