High seas may have led migrants to Taiwan
United Press International, April 1, 2011
Rising seas in China thousands of years ago may have turned rice farmers
into ancient mariners and led to human settlement on Taiwan, U.S.
researchers say. Archaeologists at the University of Hawaii say 9,000
years ago, when rice farming was the dominant activity in other areas of
China, the Fuzhou Basin in the southeast of the country started to be
inundated by rising sea levels. That meant marshes used as rice paddies
disappeared, leaving only the area's mountain tops above water as
islands, ScienceNews.org reported Friday.
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