scholarly journals Prediction of Food Production and Demand in East Asia

1997 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 837-840
Author(s):  
Hiroyui Kawashima
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Food Production

scholarly journals Major Patterns in the Neolithic Chronology of East Asia: Issues of the Origin of Pottery, Agriculture, and Civilization

Radiocarbon ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 891-903 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaroslav V Kuzmin ◽  
J A Timothy Jull ◽  
G S Burr
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Food Production ◽  
North China ◽  
State Level ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Far Eastern Russia ◽  
Neolithic Agriculture ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
Different Parts

General chronological frameworks created recently for the Neolithic complexes of China, Japan, Korea, and far eastern Russia allow us to reveal temporal patterns of Neolithization, origin of food production, and the emergence of civilizations. Pottery originated in East Asia, most probably independently in different parts of it, in the terminal Pleistocene, about 14,800–13,300 BP (uncalibrated), and this marks the beginning of the Neolithic. Agriculture in the eastern part of Asia emerged only in the Holocene. The earliest trace of millet cultivation in north China can now be placed at ∼9200 BP, and rice domestication in south China is dated to ∼8000 BP. Pottery in East Asia definitely preceded agriculture. The term “civilization,” which implies the presence of a state level of social organization and written language, has been misused by scholars who assert the existence of a very early “Yangtze River civilization” at about 6400–4200 cal BP. The earliest reliable evidence of writing in China is dated only to about 3900–3000 cal BP, and no “civilization” existed in East Asia prior to this time.

The Diffusion Route and Chronology of Korean Plant Domestication

1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong-pil Choe
Keyword(s):  
Oryza Sativa ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South China ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Food Production ◽  
North China ◽  
Plant Domestication ◽  
Sorghum Vulgare ◽  
North And South ◽  
And Diffusion

Problems concerning the emergence and geographical diffusion of food production in East Asia have long interested archaeologists and historians. However, attempts to reconstruct the chronology and diffusion routes from the so-called nuclear zones of both North and South China through the Korean peninsula and Japan have been less than convincing. In North China, the crops involved were millet (Setaria italica) and kaoliang (Sorghum vulgare); in South China, rice (Oryza sativa japonica and indica).

scholarly journals Understanding the specific nature of the East Asia Neolithic transition

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 6-29
Author(s):  
Oksana Yanshina
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Central China ◽  
The Sea Of Japan ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
North Central ◽  
Neolithic Transition ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Two Stages

The main subject of this article is to define the specific nature of the Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition in East Asia. A comparative analysis of regional East Asian data was run in order to achieve this. As a result, three dissimilar models of the Neolithic transition were distinguished: Meso-Neolithic, Subneolithic, and Neolithic proper. The first and last are similar to their counterparts in the western part of Eurasia, but the Subneolithic is unique for East Asia. Regarding chronology, two stages of Neolithic transition can be clearly recognized in this region. The new Subneolithic type of hunter-gatherer cultures occurred during the first stage around the Sea of Japan. At the second stage, the transition to food production started in central and north-central China. In between, there was a cultural, spatial and temporal gap splitting up the transitional process into two isolated episodes.

scholarly journals Understanding the specific nature of the East Asia Neolithic transition

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 6-29
Author(s):  
Oksana Yanshina
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Central China ◽  
The Sea Of Japan ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Specific Nature ◽  
North Central ◽  
Neolithic Transition ◽  
Second Stage ◽  
Two Stages

The main subject of this article is to define the specific nature of the Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition in East Asia. A comparative analysis of regional East Asian data was run in order to achieve this. As a result, three dissimilar models of the Neolithic transition were distinguished: Meso-Neolithic, Subneolithic, and Neolithic proper. The first and last are similar to their counterparts in the western part of Eurasia, but the Subneolithic is unique for East Asia. Regarding chronology, two stages of Neolithic transition can be clearly recognized in this region. The new Subneolithic type of hunter-gatherer cultures occurred during the first stage around the Sea of Japan. At the second stage, the transition to food production started in central and north-central China. In between, there was a cultural, spatial and temporal gap splitting up the transitional process into two isolated episodes.

scholarly journals Introduction: New Discoveries and Theoretical Implications for the Last Foraging and First Farming in East Asia

Quaternary ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Pei-Lin Yu ◽  
Kazunobu Ikeya ◽  
Meng Zhang
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Rapid Change ◽  
Scientific Understanding

Worldwide, scientific understanding about domestication and the origins of food production is undergoing rapid change based on new data from discoveries in paleoclimates and environments, paleobiology, and archaeology [...]

A History of East Asia

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Holcombe
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
History Of
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