Domesticated Rice in China

The exact date and location is very much a mystery, though there are some instances of rice remains that date back to sights older than 12 thousand years ago. The younger dryas was a large scale climatic event which dramatically affected the northern hemisphere. Temperatures dropped suddenly and radically before stabilizing again. This may have changed the conditions of the northern hemisphere enough to force agricultural lisal to erge in human populations in the fertile crescent. We also see a sharp increase in rainfall and sea levels after the younger dryas. All of these factors are very much favourable to the success of rice. But scholars believe that it would have been in and around the yank river valley, and that they