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Early Rice Cultivation & Its Weed Flora
Symposium: 30-31 May 2011
Held at Peking University School of Archaeology & Museology, Sackler Museum, Room 206. Sponsered by the Early Rice Project of University College London, NERC (UK) and the PKU School of Archaeology and Museology.
Schedule.
DAY 1 (30 May 2011) 9:30 am-10:00 Introduction to the Early Rice Project this workshop - Dorian Q Fuller (UCL)
Session 1. Studying early rice cultivation systems, in the Lower Yangtze and elsewhere (Chair: Michele Wollstonecroft (UCL))
10:30-11:00. Qin Ling (Peking University)-Recent discoveries at Maoshan and the development of paddy fields in the Lower Yangtze
11:00-11:30, Zong Yongqiang (Hong Kong University)-- Palynological approaches to reconstructing early rice cultivation
11:30-12:00. Heejin Lee & Zhuang Yijie (Cambridge University)-- Soil micromorphological approaches to determining rice cultivation system: examples from Korea and China
12:00-12:30. Zheng Yunfei (Zhejiang Prov. Inst. of Archaeology)- Coring, phytoliths and palaeosoils, and reconstructing early rice cultivation at Tianluoshan
Session 2. Evidence for rice beyond China- South Asia, Thailand and Korea (Chair: Mukund Kajale (Deccan College, Pune, Emeritus Professor)
2-2:30. Cristina Castillo (UCL) - New evidence for early rice cultivation & systems in early Thailand
2:30-3:00. Eleanor Kingwell-Banham (UCL) - Archaeobotanical research in South Asia: new results from Sri Lanka and India
3-3:30. Sung-mo Ahn (Wonkwang University, South Korea)-A current view of early rice cultivation in Korea
Session 3. Early Rice Project modern analogue studies of rice systems and weed flora: field reports.
(Chair: Steve Weber (Washington State University))
4:00-4:20 Gou Yu (Peking University)- Pursuing Oryza rufipogon and its associates in Guangxi.
4:20-4:40 Cristina Castillo (UCL)-A short report on developing seed reference collections for archaeobotany in Thailand, and modern rice cultivation
4:40-5:00 Dorian Fuller (UCL), Mukund Kajale & Rabi Mohanty (Deccan College Pune)-An short overview of rice field surveys in Western India and Orissa
5-5:15. Elleanor Kingwell-Banham-Notes on a wild rice (Oryza nivara) harvest experiment in Orissa (India)
5:15 pm General Discussion & Comments (Chair: Steve Weber (Washington State University))
6:30 Conference Dinner.
31 May 2011 (Day. 2)
Session 4. Further studies on Early Chinese rice
Chair: Qin Ling (Peking University)
9:30-10 Dorian Q Fuller & Alison Weisskopf (UCL)- Archaeobotanical assemblages and weed flora from Lower Yangtze sites: current results from macros and phytoliths
10:00-10:30. Jin Guiyun (Shandong University)-Evidence for rice cultivation in Neolithic Haidai region
Session 5. The Potential of Weed Flora in Early Cultivation Studies (Chair: Zhao Zhijun (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) 11am-12:30
11-11:30. Gary Crawford (Univ. of Toronto)-Weedy flora beyond the agricultural field: Anthropogenesis in Japan
11:30-12. Chris Stevens (UCL/ Wessex Archaeology) -The use of archaeological weed floras for inferring differences/ changes in cultivation practices: examples from England
12:00-12:30. Alison Weisskopf (UCL) - Comparing modern rice cultivation systems and wild rice through soil phytoliths: first results of Early Rice Project analogue studies.
12:30-2pm Lunch (packed lunch provided for picnic on campus).
Session 6. Contributions from Experimental archaeobotany
Chair: Chris Stevens (UCL)
2-2:30. Nattha Chuenwattana& Michele Wollstonecroft (UCL)-The effects of carbonization on rice: Evidence from charring experiments
2:30-3. Leo Aoi Hosoya (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto)-Exploring the broad resource base of early rice farmers: processing of peach and apricot kernels.
Session 7. Further results from China and synthesis on early Chinese rice cultivation
(Gary Crawford, Chair)
3:30-4:00. Deng Zhenhua (Peking University)-Agricultural changes at Baligang (Henan): between North and South
4:00-4:30. Zhijun (Jimmy) Zhao (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) & Gu Haibin (Hunan Prov. Inst. Of Archaeology)-Re-examining early rice and the development of cultivation in the Middle Yangtze
4:30-5 Yo-Ichiro Sato (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto). Rice: grown in China.
5pm. Final Discussion & Comments section.
Chair: Peter Bellwood (Australia National University) 6:30 Conference Dinner..