CHANGSHA -- Paddy-field remains dating back over 8,000 years have been discovered in Central China's Hunan province, according to the provincial cultural relics and archaeology research institute.

Paddy-field remains dating back over 8,000 years have been discovered in central China's Hunan Province ... including two ancient rice-paddy fields, trenches, house sites, pits, ditches, tombs ...

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