The Story of Rice: An Exploration of the Pre-Qin Rice Farming System in the Chengdu Plain

Archaeological Science Forum, No. 7

The Story of Rice: An Exploration of the Pre-Qin Rice Farming System in the Chengdu Plain

Time:

December 8, 2023, 10:00-12:00 AM

Location:

Conference Room, First Floor, Hongwa, Tibetan Studies Institute, Wangjiang Campus, Sichuan University

Speaker:

Yongchao Ma, Assistant Research Fellow

About the Speaker:

Yongchao Ma is an Assistant Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology and Museology, Sichuan University. He has long been committed to the study of the process of social complexification and agriculturalization in the Yangtze River Basin during the pre-Qin period. He has reconstructed the process and path of rice domestication and dissemination in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and its surrounding areas, clarified the stage-specific characteristics of prehistoric social evolution and its civilizational characteristics in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and is currently conducting research on the formation process and mechanism of pre-Qin agricultural society in the Chengdu Plain. Currently, he has published more than ten academic papers in well-known academic journals at home and abroad such as PLoS ONE, Quaternary International, Science Bulletin, and China Science: Earth Science, and has presided over or participated in nearly ten national, provincial and ministerial-level projects.

Reviewer:

Ming Jiang, Associate Research Librarian