English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Away from the Ganges valley, the south-eastern highlands of India is recognized as the region of origin of upland or aus rice. In this narrative, we attempt to reconstruct its origin synthesizing inklings from genetics, prehistory, and anthropology, and to find out the putative paleo-ecological, environmental, and cultural context that provided the necessary impetus to it. Genetically, we uncover a highly diverse phenotypic base with unique alleles hinting at an independent origin of aus perhaps from Oryza nivara. Post-LGM paleo-niche portrays more widely distributed O. nivara as opposed to O. rufipogon; relatively abundant O. nivara could have enabled its preferential exploitation. While a dearth of archaeological study does not illuminate much on this aspect; the agricultural attributes of the ethnic inhabitants of the area, e.g., dry rice cultivation with the hoe and the axe, reveal a striking similarity with aus or upland rice cultivation. Furthermore, comparative analyses with other historical anecdotes suggest that upland rice seems to be born as an adaptive landscape management by pre-agriculturist society. It was developed through a broader plant-people-landscape interaction, where rice or its ancestors were grown for subsistence with other crops as a Neolithic proto-agricultural package; in this case along the hill slopes. Summarizing, the current study casts light on some of the understudied aspects of upland rice agriculture, but it also brings out many open questions inviting future examination.

The Birth of <i>Aus</i> Agriculture in the South-eastern Highlands of India – an Exploratory Synthesis