Possible Early Dry-Land and Wet-Land Rice Cultivation in Highland North Sumatra

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dc.contributor.authorMaloney, Bernard K.
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-04T19:46:12Z
dc.date.available2010-08-04T19:46:12Z
dc.date.issued1996
dc.description.abstractThe origins of dry farming in the Southeast Asian tropics have been neglected until recently. Information from five North Sumatran pollen diagrams is summarized, with a chronological control of 41 radiocarbon dates, and it is suggested that pollen, phytolith, and microfossil charcoal evidence, viewed in the light of the local topography and more recent land use, indicates that dry rice may have been cultivated from c. 2600 B.P., possibly coeval with swamp rice, or some form of irrigated rice, depending upon the location, and that agricultural expansion in this area of largely poor soils began between 700 and 500 years ago. KEYWORDS: prehistoric rice cultivation, North Sumatra, palaeoenvironmental analysis, palynology, phytoliths, Southeast Asian archaeology.
dc.identifier.citationMaloney, B. K. 1996. Possible Early Dry-Land and Wet-Land Rice Cultivation in Highland North Sumatra. Asian Perspectives 35 (2): 165-92.
dc.identifier.issn1535-8283 (E-ISSN)
dc.identifier.issn0066-8435 (Print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/17080
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 35
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNumber 2
dc.subjectprehistoric rice cultivation
dc.subjectNorth Sumatra
dc.subjectpalaeoenvironmental analysis
dc.subjectpalynology
dc.subjectphytoliths
dc.subjectSoutheast Asian archaeology
dc.subject.lcshPrehistoric peoples--Asia--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshPrehistoric peoples--Oceania--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshAsia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshOceania--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshEast Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.titlePossible Early Dry-Land and Wet-Land Rice Cultivation in Highland North Sumatra
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