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Detailed explanation-1: -Introduction. The origin of rice agriculture in the Lower Yangtze River of China brought profound environmental and cultural transformations. Recent research indicates that rice domestication was a protracted process, which began in the early Holocene Shangshan culture (10000–8200 cal.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rice, one of the world’s most important staple foods sustaining more than half of the global population, was first domesticated in China about 10, 000 years ago, a new study suggested Monday.

Detailed explanation-3: -The oldest archaeological evidence of rice use by humans has been found in the middle and lower Yangzi River Valley region of China. Phytoliths, silicon microfossils of plant cell structures, from rice have been found at the Xianrendong and Diotonghuan sites and dated to 11 000–12 000 bc (Zhao, 1998).

Detailed explanation-4: -Many cultures have evidence of early rice cultivation, including China, India, and the civilizations of Southeast Asia. However, the earliest archaeological evidence comes from central and eastern China and dates to 7000–5000 bce.

Detailed explanation-5: -Around 10, 000 years ago, as the Pleistocene gave way to our current geological epoch, a group of hunter-gathers near China’s Yangtze River began changing their way of life. They started to grow rice. Remarkably, archaeologists have now unearthed bits of this rice at a site called Shangshan.