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...seeds to be as much as 11,700 years old; the same tests on ancient grain samples found in the Middle East or Latin America show that none are more than 9,500 years old. Thus, says the director of the University of Hawaii expedition. Anthropologist Wilhelm G. Solheim II. Thailand's ancient inhabitants may well have been the world's first farmers...
Early Rice. Other scientists suggest that agriculture developed more or less simultaneously in widely separated regions of the world. Carbon-14 dating techniques, they note, can easily be off by as much as 1,000 years. But Solheim's claim is at least indirectly supported by other evidence of Southeast Asia's prehistoric culture. At the historic Thai village of Non Nok Tha, another University of Hawaii archaeological team has discovered a 3,500-year-old metal ax with a socket for a handle. The unusual implement may show that Thailand's ancient people were able...
...team also discovered old pottery fragments imprinted with rice husk markings. The shards indicate that the inhabitants of the region were cultivating rice even earlier than 3500 B.C.-long before it was grown in either India or China. "The Chinese," says Solheim. "have felt superior to the peoples beyond their borders. Now they will have to accept the fact that many of the peoples of Southeast Asia had a higher culture from which the Chinese borrowed for the foundations of their later civilization...