Rice's trajectory from wild to domesticated in East Asia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Zhang, Jianping; Jiang, Leping; Yu, Lupeng; Huan, Xiujia; Zhou, Liping; Wang, Changsheng; Jin, Jianhui; Zuo, Xinxin; Wu, Naiqin; Zhao, Zhijun; Sun, Hanlong; Yu, Zhaoyuan; Zhang, Guoping; Zhu, Jiangping; Wu, Zhenlei; Dong, Yajie; Fan, Baoshuo; Shen, Caiming; Lu, Houyuan
• 署名单位: Chinese Academy of Sciences; Institute of Geology & Geophysics, CAS; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Linyi University; Peking University; Fujian Normal University; Shandong University; Hebei Normal University; Yunnan Normal University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CAS
• 刊物名称: SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0036-8764
• DOI: 10.1126/science.ade4487
• 发表日期: 2024-05-24
• 页码: 901-906
• 关键词: plant domestication; phytolith evidence; early pottery; cave; archaeobotany; fluctuations; exploitation; cultivation; diversity; genetics

摘要

Rice (Oryza sativa) serves as a staple food for more than one-third of the global population. However, its journey from a wild gathered food to domestication remains enigmatic, sparking ongoing debates in the biological and anthropological fields. Here, we present evidence of rice phytoliths sampled from two archaeological sites in China, Shangshan and Hehuashan, near the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. We demonstrate the growth of wild rice at least 100,000 years before present, its initial exploitation as a gathered resource at about 24,000 years before present, its predomestication cultivation at about 13,000 years before present, and eventually its domestication at about 11,000 years before present. These developmental stages illuminate a protracted process of rice domestication in East Asia and extend the continuous records of cereal evolution beyond the Fertile Crescent.