Advances in East Asian Agricultural Origins Studies: The Pleistocene to Holocene Transition

• Other Authors: Yu, Pei-Lin (Editor), Kazunobu, Ikeya (Editor), Zhang, Meng (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: Research & information: general; microblade technology; broad spectrum revolution; Pleistocene to Holocene transition; origin of food production; hunter-gatherers; macroecology; Constructing Frames of Reference; palaeoenvironment; Hokkaido; terminal Pleistocene; initial Holocene; climate fluctuation; 8.2 ka BP cooling event; transitional sites; Early Neolithic; adaptive strategy; North China; Paleolithic Taiwan; aquatic-focused foraging; Neolithic Taiwan; agricultural adoption; niche variation theory; invasion theory; prey choice model; complex hunting-gathering; Paleolithic-Neolithic transition; aquatic utilization; China; bronze age; hunter gatherers; interaction; irrigation system; Jomon people; Korean Peninsula; wet rice cultivation; dry-field farming; first farmers; Jomon; paddy rice farming; sedentarised hunter-gatherers; Yayoi; n/a; East Asia; origins of agriculture; paleolithic to Neolithic transition
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Scientific understanding about domestication and the origins of food production in East Asia is undergoing rapid change based on new data from archaeology, paleobiology, and paleoenvironmental studies. The earliest agricultural and pastoral societies emerged from the highly diverse habitats and Pale...