Rice Husk found in which ancient civilisation of India ?
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The Research team sifted for traces of ancient grains in the remains of several Indus villages within a few miles of the site called Rakhigarhi, the most recently excavated of the Indus cities that may have maintained a population of some 40,000.
Rakhigarhi is a village in Hisar District in the state of Haryana in India.
“This led to the local development of a mix of ‘wetland’ and ‘dryland’ agriculture of local Oryza sativa indica rice agriculture before the truly ‘wetland’ Chinese rice, Oryza sativa japonica arrived around 2000 BC,” said co-lead author Dr. Jennifer Bates, from the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
“While wetland rice is more productive, and took over to a large extent when introduced from China, our findings appear to show there was already a long-held and sustainable culture of rice production in India as a widespread summer addition to the winter cropping during the Indus Valley civilization.”
The researchers found evidence for an entirely separate domestication process in ancient South Asia, likely based around the wild species Oryza nivara.