Rice Was First Grown At Least 9,400 Years Ago
Archaeologists have unearthed bits of rice from when it was first domesticated in China.
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 at a site called Shangshan. The grains, of course, were eaten long ago and the plant stalks have long been rotten, but one tiny part of rice remains even
