Ref ID:	37025
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Fuller, Damien Q. Castillo, Cristina
Title:	Cereals of Southeast Asia
Date:	2022
Source:	The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia
Place of Publication:	New York
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
DOI:	10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199355358.013.19
Abstract:	Rice is the most important cereal in Southeast Asia today. Archaeobotanical evidence in mainland Southeast Asia suggests that this has been the case over the past three and a half millennia. Archaeologists have tended to emphasize the central role of rice in the origins and dispersal of agriculture, as well as how irrigated rice formed the foundation of states throughout mainland Southeast Asia. However, there are many other cereals that are traditionally cultivated in Southeast Asia or adjacent parts of China and India. This chapter provides an overview of the early history and past distribution of cereals of Southeastern Asia, highlighting how little is known about many of them, and a summary of the current evidence for origins and spread of rice and foxtail millet, the best known cereals from archaeobotanical evidence in Southeast Asia.
Editors:	Higham, C. F. W. Kim, Nam C.
Page Start:	299
Page End:	320