> [!cite] > Lu, Tracey L-D. ‘The Occurrence of Cereal Cultivation in China’. *Asian Perspectives*, vol. 45, no. 2 (2006), pp.129–58. [https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2006.0022](https://doi.org/10.1353/asi.2006.0022). > [!abstract] > This paper examines the progress and remaining problems on the occurrence of cereal cultivation in China, which led to agriculture, and discusses some related theoretical issues. Based on currently available data, it is argued that the occurrence of cereal cultivation in China was associated with and related to the climatic and environmental changes after the last glacial epoch, the occurrence of new technology, including the manufacturing of pottery, and the adoption of a broad-spectrum subsistence strategy, whereas sedentism does not seem to be a prerequisite for this cultural change. The transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture in China seems to have been a gradual process, and foraging remained a subsistence strategy of the early farmers. The occurrence of cereal cultivation in China differed from that in other core areas, demonstrating the diversity of human cultures and contributing to our understanding of the origin and development of agriculture in the world. --- ‘Today, many scholars agree that China is one of the centers for an indigenous origin of agriculture, with broomcorn and foxtail millets and rice being the major domesticated crops (e.g., Crawford 2005; Diamond and Bellwood 2003; Higham 1995; Smith 1995) and dog and pig as the primary animal domesticates (Yuan 2001).’ [[Lu, ‘The Occurrence of Cereal Cultivation in China’, 2006|(Lu 2006, 129)]] ^b7ccff ‘It is not clear whether chicken and water bu¤alo were also indigenously domesticated in China (Liu 2004; Yuan 2001).’ [[Lu, ‘The Occurrence of Cereal Cultivation in China’, 2006|(Lu 2006, 129)]] ^fd7377 ‘The origin of agriculture in China by no later than 9000 years ago is an important issue in prehistoric archaeology. Agriculture is the foundation of Chinese civilization.’ [[Lu, ‘The Occurrence of Cereal Cultivation in China’, 2006|(Lu 2006, 129)]] ^65db16