cattle domesication was well known in china, it certainly was not introduced by our favorite ruskis. probably we should opt for a trans-brahmaputran diffusion of an indica rice - cattle complex.
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NEW PROGRESS IN RICE AGRICULTURE AND THE ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION: SUMMARY OF RESULTS ON THE EXCAVATION OF THREE MAJOR SITES ON THE LIYANG PLAIN IN HUNAN, CHINA
PEI, An Ping </b>link
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For the first time, an <b>Early Neolithic culture is confirmed in China's Yangtze </b>area. <b>Its age is slightly earlier than 7500-9000 year-old Peiligang culture on the Yellow River. </b>Its discovery advances Neolithic research NW of Dongting lake and completes the cultural sequence of <b>Pengtoushan </b>> Zaoshi lower level > Tang Jia Gung > Daxi > Quling and Shi Jia River in the period 4000-9000 years ago.
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Bashidang is in north Liyang Plain near the north shore of Li Lake, ca. 20 km NE of Lixian county seat and 15 km NW of Pengtoushan. Upper level material is 7,000-8,000 year old Pengtoushan Middle to Late Neolithic cultures, that of the lower level, the 15,000 year-old Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition.
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  In 4.5-6 m deep west side excavation, an ancient riverbed was found encircling the site. Its black silt, associated with 8,000 year-old bank cultural material, contains much household pottery and water devices, but most surprising are many perfectly preserved organic remains. Thorough silt cleaning and rinsing resulted in several dozen kinds of seeds of important human food like tubers, lotus root, reeds, etc., many wild and domestic animal bones, many bamboo and wood vessels, and bone and woven items (Fig. 5-8).
    Artifacts include a plough handle, awl, pestle and shovel of wood, plus bamboo and wood tablets, etc. The handle is ca. 90 cm long and l0 cm wide. A long wood pestle with round head was used for food processing. Bamboo and wood tablets, 15x2-3x2-3 mm, chronicle divination using surface eyelets, some distributed uniformly, others not.
    Woven items include reed mats, square bamboo basket, hemp and cane ropes, etc. Some reed mats resemble those of modern local villagers.
    <b> Most bone tools are of cow longbone, </b>their broken ends sanded and ground to a slanted blade. Smaller bone tools ca. 10-cm long can be used as drills, larger tools ca. 40 cm long and 8-9 cm diameter, some kind of farming tool.
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    4. The finding of the worldâs earliest paddy rice (6,500 years) includes much paddy and rough rice, cultivated seed, stems and leaves. A 1994 appraisal of seeds, stems and leaves in Daxi trench silt indicate they were cultivated rice, millet, hemp, barley, winter melon, small bottle gourd melon, etc., the most significant being rice. Research suggests Chengtoushanâs Daxi rice is possibly aquatic and very different from modern rice.<b> Most is small grain indica and japonica </b>that are grown even now.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>NEW PROGRESS IN RICE AGRICULTURE AND THE ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION: SUMMARY OF RESULTS ON THE EXCAVATION OF THREE MAJOR SITES ON THE LIYANG PLAIN IN HUNAN, CHINA
PEI, An Ping </b>link
......
For the first time, an <b>Early Neolithic culture is confirmed in China's Yangtze </b>area. <b>Its age is slightly earlier than 7500-9000 year-old Peiligang culture on the Yellow River. </b>Its discovery advances Neolithic research NW of Dongting lake and completes the cultural sequence of <b>Pengtoushan </b>> Zaoshi lower level > Tang Jia Gung > Daxi > Quling and Shi Jia River in the period 4000-9000 years ago.
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Bashidang is in north Liyang Plain near the north shore of Li Lake, ca. 20 km NE of Lixian county seat and 15 km NW of Pengtoushan. Upper level material is 7,000-8,000 year old Pengtoushan Middle to Late Neolithic cultures, that of the lower level, the 15,000 year-old Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition.
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  In 4.5-6 m deep west side excavation, an ancient riverbed was found encircling the site. Its black silt, associated with 8,000 year-old bank cultural material, contains much household pottery and water devices, but most surprising are many perfectly preserved organic remains. Thorough silt cleaning and rinsing resulted in several dozen kinds of seeds of important human food like tubers, lotus root, reeds, etc., many wild and domestic animal bones, many bamboo and wood vessels, and bone and woven items (Fig. 5-8).
    Artifacts include a plough handle, awl, pestle and shovel of wood, plus bamboo and wood tablets, etc. The handle is ca. 90 cm long and l0 cm wide. A long wood pestle with round head was used for food processing. Bamboo and wood tablets, 15x2-3x2-3 mm, chronicle divination using surface eyelets, some distributed uniformly, others not.
    Woven items include reed mats, square bamboo basket, hemp and cane ropes, etc. Some reed mats resemble those of modern local villagers.
    <b> Most bone tools are of cow longbone, </b>their broken ends sanded and ground to a slanted blade. Smaller bone tools ca. 10-cm long can be used as drills, larger tools ca. 40 cm long and 8-9 cm diameter, some kind of farming tool.
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    4. The finding of the worldâs earliest paddy rice (6,500 years) includes much paddy and rough rice, cultivated seed, stems and leaves. A 1994 appraisal of seeds, stems and leaves in Daxi trench silt indicate they were cultivated rice, millet, hemp, barley, winter melon, small bottle gourd melon, etc., the most significant being rice. Research suggests Chengtoushanâs Daxi rice is possibly aquatic and very different from modern rice.<b> Most is small grain indica and japonica </b>that are grown even now.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->