Food and ritual resources in hunter-gatherer societies: Canarium nuts in southern China and beyond. (December 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Food and ritual resources in hunter-gatherer societies: Canarium nuts in southern China and beyond. (December 2019)
- Main Title:
- Food and ritual resources in hunter-gatherer societies: Canarium nuts in southern China and beyond
- Authors:
- Deng, Zhenhua
Hung, Hsiao-chun
Li, Zhen
Carson, Mike T.
Huang, Qiang
Huang, Yunzhong
Lu, Houyuan - Abstract:
- Abstract: Abstract : Archaeobotanical studies tend to concentrate on the evidence for specialised agricultural food production, with less attention directed towards the use of plant foods within hunter-gatherer contexts. Here, the authors present evidence for the exploitation of Canarium nuts from four late hunter-gatherer sites in southern China. Canarium nuts contributed to the inhabitants' diets from as early as 9000 cal BP. They also identify new uses of Canarium, c . 4500–4400 cal BP, as ritual offerings in the context of the introduction of rice and millet farming. The results are examined in the context of Canarium use across the wider Asia-Pacific region.
- Is Part Of:
- Antiquity. Volume 93:Number 372(2019)
- Journal:
- Antiquity
- Issue:
- Volume 93:Number 372(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 93, Issue 372 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 93
- Issue:
- 372
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0093-0372-0000
- Page Start:
- 1460
- Page End:
- 1478
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12
- Subjects:
- southern China, -- Canarium nuts, -- food resources, -- hunter-gatherers
Archaeology -- Periodicals
Antiquities -- Periodicals
930.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://antiquity.ac.uk/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.15184/aqy.2019.173 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0003-598X
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