how farming and village life began in what is now China, from millet and rice to the first villages

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• Reconstructed communal house at Sannai-Maruyama

  Perezoso

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• Dugout canoe from Kuahuqiao

  Cat's diary (猫猫的日记本)

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• Sannai-Maruyama archaeological site

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• Banpo basin with human-face and fish designs

  Gary Lee Todd

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• Jiahu tortoise shell with an engraved sign

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• Jiahu bone flute

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• Hongshan jade dragon

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• Hongshan jade pig-dragon

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• Bone arrowheads from Jiahu

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• Bone flute in the Henan Museum

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• Bone flute from Jiahu

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• Xianrendong pottery sherds in the Shanghai Museum

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• Peiligang-culture objects from Jiahu

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• Shangshan-culture basin, cup and grinder from Xialang

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• Jade plaque

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• Ceremonial disk-axe (yue)

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• Jiahu bone flute, vertical view

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• Peiligang-culture pots from Jiahu

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• Shangshan archaeological site

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• Jar with Spiral Designs

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• Millet grain-width change over time

  Chris J. Stevens; Yijie Zhuang; Dorian Q. Fuller

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  Bottom chart panel cropped from the published figure and resized.

  From Millets, dogs, pigs and permanent settlement: productivity transitions in Neolithic northern China (2024).

• Xinglongwa jade jue

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• Tortoise shell and stones from Jiahu

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• Tortoise shell with carved signs

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• Tianluoshan rice spikelet bases, Figure 3D–E

  Dorian Q. Fuller; Ling Qin; Yunfei Zheng; Zhijun Zhao; Xugao Chen; Leo Aoi Hosoya; Guo-Ping Sun

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  Only Figure 3 panels D and E are shown; cropped, resized and annotated with animated highlights.

  Fuller et al. (2009), The Domestication Process and Domestication Rate in Rice: Spikelet Bases from the Lower Yangtze, Science 323, 1607–1610.

• Xianrendong cave entrance

  Zhangzhugang

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• Tianluoshan archaeological site

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• Zhejiang Provincial Museum display

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• Yuchanyan pot, Hunan Museum

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• Ancient wall at Chengtoushan

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• Jade dragon from Lingjiatan

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• Lingjiatan jade statuettes

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• Green foxtail grass in China

  Dinkun Chen

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• Middle Jōmon jar from Niigata

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  Hakone Museum of Art.

• Sannai-Maruyama archaeological site

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• Loess Plateau

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• Water-caltrop fruit at Yokotake, Kanzaki

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• Reeves's turtle

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• Sawtooth-oak acorns

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• Jiahu bone flute M282:20, detail from Figure 1

  Zhang Juzhong; Garman Harbottle; Wang Changsui; Kong Zhaochen

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  Single flute cropped from the six-flute photograph; resized, slowly enlarged and annotated with a ring around the small extra hole.

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• Jiahu bone flute M282:20

  Zhang Juzhong; Garman Harbottle; Wang Changsui; Kong Zhaochen

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  Single flute cropped from Figure 1; resized, slowly enlarged and annotated with a ring around the small extra hole.

  Zhang, Harbottle, Wang and Kong, Nature 401, 366–368 (1999), Figure 1. © 1999 Macmillan Magazines Ltd.

• Tianluoshan rice spikelet bases, Figure 3D–E

  Dorian Q. Fuller; Ling Qin; Yunfei Zheng; Zhijun Zhao; Xugao Chen; Leo Aoi Hosoya; Guo-Ping Sun

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  Panels D and E cropped from Figure 3; resized and annotated with animated highlights.

  Fuller et al. (2009), The Domestication Process and Domestication Rate in Rice: Spikelet Bases from the Lower Yangtze, Science 323, 1607–1610.

• Millet grain-width change over time

  Chris J. Stevens; Yijie Zhuang; Dorian Q. Fuller

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  Bottom chart panel cropped from the published figure and resized.

  From Millets, dogs, pigs and permanent settlement: productivity transitions in Neolithic northern China (2024).

• Bone flute in the Henan Museum

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• Xianrendong cave entrance

  Zhangzhugang

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• Eroded loess slopes

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• Swan-bone flute from Geissenklösterle

  Thilo Parg

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• Xinglongwa, Banpo and Hemudu pottery

  Siyuwj; Sgnpkd; Gary Lee Todd

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  Pottery photographs cropped, resized and assembled into a labelled three-panel comparison.

  Xinglongwa pottery: Siyuwj / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Banpo amphora: Sgnpkd / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banpo_amphora.jpg. Hemudu pottery: Gary Lee Todd / Wikimedia Commons, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neolithic_Hemudu_Culture_Pottery_01.jpg; https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/.

• Broomcorn millet

  Ephramac

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• Broomcorn and foxtail millet

  Ephramac; Roger Culos

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  Both photographs cropped, resized and assembled into a labelled comparison.

  Broomcorn millet: Ephramac / Wikimedia Commons. Foxtail millet: Roger Culos / Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Setaria_italica_MHNT.BOT.2015.34.19.jpg. Both photographs CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Jōmon pedestal pot, 3D scan

  松戸市立博物館【公式】Matsudo Museum

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  3D model rendered as a turntable animation by AgentHouse; excerpted for video.

  台付深鉢形土器 pedestal pot, Matsudo Museum on Sketchfab. The rendered adaptation retains CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Tianluoshan rice: changing share of non-shattering spikelet bases

  Dorian Q. Fuller; Ling Qin; Yunfei Zheng; Zhijun Zhao; Xugao Chen; Leo Aoi Hosoya; Guo-Ping Sun

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  Original AgentHouse chart drawn from the published 27% and 39% values; no source figure reproduced.

  Data: Fuller et al. (2009), Science 323, 1607–1610, supporting material, Figure S2.

• Natural Earth lakes, 1:50 million

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• Natural Earth land, 1:50 million

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• Natural Earth rivers and lake centerlines, 1:50 million

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• Earth normal map

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• GEBCO 2021 Grid: East Asia terrain subset

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• GEBCO 2021 Grid: Eurasia terrain subset

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• GEBCO 2021 Grid: East Asia terrain subset

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  Subset through Ifremer ERDDAP at every sixteenth grid cell; projected and shaded for the accumulating East Asia map.

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• Natural Earth lakes, 1:10 million

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• Natural Earth rivers and lake centerlines, 1:10 million

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• GEBCO 2021 Grid: Southeast Asia terrain extension

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  Southern strip subset through Ifremer ERDDAP at every sixteenth grid cell; joined to the East Asia subset and shaded for wider map views.

  GEBCO Compilation Group (2021), GEBCO 2021 Grid. Subset via Ifremer ERDDAP.

• Central Plain mortuary inequality data, Data S1

  Dongdong Li; Suwei Guo; Xingcan Chen

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  Data S1's 44 analytical units redrawn as an original chart; Gaussian smoothing with a 500-year bandwidth; Jiahu units highlighted. Data S2 is not plotted.

  Li, Guo and Chen (2026), How inequality became durable before states: Evidence from 6000 years in the Central Plain of China, Science Advances 12, eady6737. © 2026 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works.

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• Majestic Cranes Flying Over Snowy Winter Landscape

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• Close-up of Rice Ears in a Rural Field

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• Hands Inspecting Green Millet Crop in Sunlight

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• Close Up of Yellow Millet Grain

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• Hawthorn Branch with Ripe Red Berries Close Up

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• Wild Pigs Foraging in Wooded Environment

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• Spiky Chestnuts in the Woods in Autumn

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Music

• Original score
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