Farming communities arose sometime before 8000 bp in China, but how much earlier is not yet known. In general, people in northern China domesticated foxtail and broomcorn millets (Setaria italica and Panicum miliaceum), hemp (Cannabis sativa), and Chinese cabbage (Brassica campestris), among other crops, while their contemporaries to the south domesticated rice. Water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis), swine, and chickens were also domesticated, but their earliest history is not yet documented in any detail. Agricultural communities began to flourish between 8000 and 7000 bp in China, some relying on dry field production and others dependent on the annual rise and fall ...(100 of 27369 words)