摘要
稻谷是世界上最重要的粮食作物之一,而亚洲历来是全球最大的水稻栽培地区,目前,全世界有90%以上的稻谷是在亚洲种植和消费的。关于亚洲栽培水稻的起源问题,长期以来是国内外学者所瞩目的重大学术问题。尽管有许多学者曾经运用现代植物学、遗传学、历史语言学、语言地理学、历史文献学和考古学等不同的方法对这一问题进行过研究探索,但观点上的争论和分歧仍然较大。这一问题的深入探索,很大程度上取决于考古实物资料的出土。
The article deals with the ancient rice recently unearthed on the site of Mahagara, India,and makes comparasion with those fund in other parts of Asian,hence elaborates on the issue of origion of paddy rice plantation in Asia, the author puts forth that Asia with three separated areas for origionally growing paddy rice in history,led the wold in this aspect,and ontlines an arch belt in Asia on which paddy rice was origionally artificially planted.
出处
《南亚研究季刊》
1989年第3期60-66,5+23,共9页
South Asian Studies Quarterly