Common carp aquaculture in Neolithic China dates back 8,000 years

2019/09/16 by Tsuneo Nakajima, Mark Hudson, Mark J. Hudson +4 · 138 citations
Environmental Science · #Aquaculture #Archaeology #Biology #Carp #China #Common carp #Cyprinus #Domestication #Ecology #Fish <Actinopterygii> #Fish Ecology and Management Studies #Fishery #Geography #Isotope Analysis in Ecology #Marine animal studies overview #Prehistory

paper · doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0974-3

published in Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(10), 1415-1418 (Nature Portfolio)

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