Archaeologists Find 3,500-Year-Old Traces of Rice in Guam

Jun 25, 2025 - 15:45
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Archaeologists Find 3,500-Year-Old Traces of Rice in Guam
Rice phytoliths from excavations at Ritidian Beach Cave, Guam. Scale bars - 10 μm. Image credit: Carson et al., doi: 10.1126/sciadv.adw3591.

Rice was a staple crop in the ancestral Austronesian regions of Taiwan and Island Southeast Asia, but it was unknown in any of the Pacific Islands at the time of European encounters, with the exception of the unique case of Guam and the Mariana Islands.

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