Detail: China has contributed hundreds of crops and important economic plants to the world economy. Among them, rice and millet came into the human fold nearly 10,000 years ago and eventually came to support the economy of Emperor Qin Shi-Huang. What archaeologists are learning about this early "green revolution" in China is a story of ecological and technological ingenuity that challenges modern archaeology.

Speaker:
Gary Crawford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and member of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Mississauga, is an archaeologist specializing in environmental issues and the origins of agriculture. He has participated in archaeological research in Japan since 1974 and in China since 1986. Crawford has published widely, is co-author of Human Evolution and Prehistory, and hosted and co-authored the TV Ontario series Archaeology from the Ground Up in the late 1980s. He is currently investigating the origins and intensification of agriculture in China.

Time - 7:00 to 8:00 pm