Settled in the late seventh century as the capital of Srivijaya, Palembang has since then been a large settlement. This required her rulers to secure access to regular food crops to feed a large population. This essay considers the two plants that historical sources describe as the main staple crops: sago and rice, both typical of swamp forest edges. Sago starch production and consumption is well documented in Insular Southeast Asia and its prevalent usage in Palembang is attested until late in history. The cultivation of flood-recession rice, known to this day, is more difficult to document for past periods, but all the available evidence appears to indicate that it would have soon provided an efficient complement to sago production. This ...
Plant macrofossils from the sites of Khao Sam Kaeo and Phu Khao Thong on the Thai-Malay Peninsula sh...
Funder: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (2)Abstract: Rice is one of the most c...
Beliefs in rice spirits were integral to the magical worldview of the precolonial inhabitants of the...
Settled in the late seventh century as the capital of Srivijaya, Palembang has since then been a lar...
Southeast Asia is lagging behind other regions of the world in the study of archaeological plant re...
A priori Models and Thai Prehistory : A Reconsideration of the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southeas...
Asia (e.g., Bellwood et al. 1992; Oka 1988). Although during the past two decades advances have been...
<p>Lowland agricultural fields have unique characteristics that only harvest once a year and plantin...
This article sets out the first direct evidence for the central role of rice cultivation in the orig...
Southeast Asia , the Hearth of Agriculture. The natural riches of Southeast Asia, particularly thos...
Recent research on the eastern margins of the Bangkok Plain in central Thailand has identified a ser...
The origins of dry farming in the Southeast Asian tropics have been neglected until recently. Inform...
Although historic and linguistic sources indicate that the indigenous Mariana Islanders of Micronesi...
In the areas adjacent to the drowned Pleistocene continent of Sunda - present-day Mainland and Islan...
Alongside the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plant species travelled from Africa to the Americas and ba...
Plant macrofossils from the sites of Khao Sam Kaeo and Phu Khao Thong on the Thai-Malay Peninsula sh...
Funder: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (2)Abstract: Rice is one of the most c...
Beliefs in rice spirits were integral to the magical worldview of the precolonial inhabitants of the...
Settled in the late seventh century as the capital of Srivijaya, Palembang has since then been a lar...
Southeast Asia is lagging behind other regions of the world in the study of archaeological plant re...
A priori Models and Thai Prehistory : A Reconsideration of the Beginnings of Agriculture in Southeas...
Asia (e.g., Bellwood et al. 1992; Oka 1988). Although during the past two decades advances have been...
<p>Lowland agricultural fields have unique characteristics that only harvest once a year and plantin...
This article sets out the first direct evidence for the central role of rice cultivation in the orig...
Southeast Asia , the Hearth of Agriculture. The natural riches of Southeast Asia, particularly thos...
Recent research on the eastern margins of the Bangkok Plain in central Thailand has identified a ser...
The origins of dry farming in the Southeast Asian tropics have been neglected until recently. Inform...
Although historic and linguistic sources indicate that the indigenous Mariana Islanders of Micronesi...
In the areas adjacent to the drowned Pleistocene continent of Sunda - present-day Mainland and Islan...
Alongside the trans-Atlantic slave trade, plant species travelled from Africa to the Americas and ba...
Plant macrofossils from the sites of Khao Sam Kaeo and Phu Khao Thong on the Thai-Malay Peninsula sh...
Funder: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (2)Abstract: Rice is one of the most c...
Beliefs in rice spirits were integral to the magical worldview of the precolonial inhabitants of the...