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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://www.uparchaeology.org/seminar.htm Dr. Rakesh Tiwari
It is believed that the agricluture began in the west Asia around the begining of Holocene in a region known as "Fertile Cresent" with the domestication of Barliey and wheat of which the region has been a natural habitat. During the past few decades another Fertile Crescent has emerged in East Asia in China, where the cultivation of rice began much earlier than the emergence of agriculture in west Asia. Apart from this researches carried form Africa and Europe and another parts of the world have brought to light new evidences regarding the indiginous development and spread of early agricluture. The invistigations comprising studies of Palynological remains, phytolith, diatom, DNA etc. and the advent of AMS dating have added new facets to these researches. As far as the Indian subcontinent is concerned, the begining of <b>wheat and barliey cultivation at Kachi Plain in Baluchistan(Pakistan) goes back to seventh millennium BC. </b>More recently the evdience for <b>rice cultivitation in seventh millennium BC </b>has also been recorded from Lahuradewa in the Ganga Plain.<b> Studies on lake cores at Lahuradewa and sanai Tal</b> in the same region indicates that it <b>might have even earlier genesis as early as in the concluding Pleistocene phase of the earliest Holocene.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://www.uparchaeology.org/seminar.htm Dr. Rakesh Tiwari
It is believed that the agricluture began in the west Asia around the begining of Holocene in a region known as "Fertile Cresent" with the domestication of Barliey and wheat of which the region has been a natural habitat. During the past few decades another Fertile Crescent has emerged in East Asia in China, where the cultivation of rice began much earlier than the emergence of agriculture in west Asia. Apart from this researches carried form Africa and Europe and another parts of the world have brought to light new evidences regarding the indiginous development and spread of early agricluture. The invistigations comprising studies of Palynological remains, phytolith, diatom, DNA etc. and the advent of AMS dating have added new facets to these researches. As far as the Indian subcontinent is concerned, the begining of <b>wheat and barliey cultivation at Kachi Plain in Baluchistan(Pakistan) goes back to seventh millennium BC. </b>More recently the evdience for <b>rice cultivitation in seventh millennium BC </b>has also been recorded from Lahuradewa in the Ganga Plain.<b> Studies on lake cores at Lahuradewa and sanai Tal</b> in the same region indicates that it <b>might have even earlier genesis as early as in the concluding Pleistocene phase of the earliest Holocene.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->