Rice husk phytolithsCarson et al. 2025, Science Advances
Rice husk phytolithsCarson et al. 2025, Science Advances
One grain at a time, sweet Jesus
That's all I'm asking from You
Just give me a grain
Brown rice or plain
That's all You need do...
Interesting.
Put another way, neolithic people weren’t able to survive such a long voyage until they figured out how to bring along sufficient supplies of food, and keep it dry and on board their boat until they made landfall.
Pretty impressive, nonetheless. The equivalent of a voyage to Mars today. Maybe even a bigger lift — they didn’t know that anything was out there at all, let alone where land might be found. One imagines that they were driven by great need or desperation, along with substantial courage and ingenuity.
“Rice was originally domesticated in central China 9,000 years ago”
TWEEEEEEET!
Biblical timeline violation.
They probably went earlier across land bridges before the big floods. Occam’s Razor says so. It’s the easiest way...
The early Guamanians were able to sail across 1400 miles of ocean to get rice. But they knew enough not to stockpile so much that it would cause Guam to tip over.
