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The Hunting Farmers: Understanding ancient human subsistence in the central part of the Korean peninsula during the Late Holocene (Paperback)
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The Hunting Farmers: Understanding ancient human subsistence in the central part of the Korean peninsula during the Late Holocene (Paperback)
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The transition from foragers to farmers and the role of intensive
rice agriculture have been among the most controversial subjects in
Korean archaeology. However, the relatively high acidity of
sediment in the Korean peninsula has made it impossible to examine
faunal/floral remains directly for tracing the subsistence change.
For this reason, many of the studies on the transition heavily
relied on the shell middens in coastal areas, which reflect only a
small portion of the overall subsistence in the Korean Peninsula.
The subsistence behaviors recorded in numerous large-scale inland
habitation sites have been obscured by the overall separation
between hunter-gatherer and intensive rice farmer. This research
investigates the role of intensive rice farming as a subsistence
strategy in the central part of the prehistoric Korean peninsula
using organic geochemical analysis and luminescence dating on
potsherds. The central hypothesis of this research is that there
was a wide range of resource utilization along with rice farming
around 3,400-2,600 BP. This hypothesis contrasts with prevailing
rice-based models, where climatically driven intensive rice
agriculture from 3,400 BP is thought to be the dominant subsistence
strategy that drove social complexity. This research focuses on
four large-scale inland habitation sites that contain abundant
pottery collections to evaluate the central hypothesis as well the
prevailing rice-centred model. This research produced critical data
for addressing prehistoric subsistence in the Korean peninsula and
established a detailed chronology of subsistence during 3,400-1,800
BP.
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