A History of Agriculture in India v1.c23.s5.4

v1.c23.s5.4

The discovery by Gorman of Hoabinhian culture in Thailand dating back to 12000 B.C. confirms Carl Sauer's guess that the earliest agriculture was in Southeast Asia. Sauer states, "As the cradle of earliest agriculture, I have proposed South-eastern Asia. It meets the requirements of high physical and organic diversity, of mild climate with reversed monsoons giving abundant rainy and dry periods, of many waters inviting to fishing, of location at the hub of the Old World for communication by water or by land. No other area is equally well situated or equally well furnished for the rise of a fishing farming culture."