Abstract
By the mid-Neolithic period, seven or eight thousand years ago, a relatively stable agrarian economy had already formed in both northern and southern China. The prehistoric agriculture of China’s Yellow River and Yangtze regions at this time had already moved beyond primeval slash and burn agriculture. Due to the richness of loess and crop resistance to arid conditions and drought, intensive farming had already developed in the Central Plains and northern China, where use of stone tools predominated and the irrigation of major waterways was not relied on.
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