The Impact of Climate on the Spread of Rice to North-Eastern China: A New Look at the Data from Shandong Province

摘要: Moving crops outside of their original centers domestication was sometimes a challenging process. Because its substantial heat requirements, moving rice agriculture homelands not an easy process for farmers in the past. Using crop niche models, we examine constraints faced by ancient and foragers as they moved to most northerly extent Ancient China: Shandong province. Contrary previous arguments, find that during climatic optimum could have been grown region. Climatic cooling following this date had clear impact on distribution rice, one may placed adaptive pressure develop temperate phenotype. Following development phenotype, once again become implanted select areas north-eastern China.