The 24th edition of this blog carnival is now up and running, and with well over a dozen articles contributed by a similar number of people, there’s a very good mix of material covering a wide variety of topics, so head on over to Paddy K’s, and check it out for yourself.
As I mentioned earlier [...]
September 26, 2007
Four Stone Hearth XXIV @ Paddy K’s Swedish Extravaganza
September 26, 2007
Rice Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture
A new Nature study will report on the earliest known evidence of rice paddies in China. We’re talking almost 8,000 years ago.
Cheng Zong of Durham University lead the excavation at the Kuahuqiao site in the Zhejiang province. After analyzing sediments of ancient swamp beds at the site the team found signs that the dirt was [...]
