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The hunting farmers : understanding ancient human subsistence in the central part of the Korean peninsula during the Late Holocene / Seungki Kwak.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Access archaeologyPublisher: Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2017]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 117 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
  • cartographic image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1784916765
  • 9781784916756
  • 1784916757
  • 9781784916763
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hunting farmers.DDC classification:
  • 630.93 23
LOC classification:
  • S471.K6
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword; 1. Subsistence change, Emergence of agriculture, and Rice; 2. Background and Central Hypothesis; 3. Methodological background, Research design and analytical procedure of the Luminescence dating; 4. Methods, Research design and analytical procedure of the organic geochemical analysis; 5. The Results; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusion; 8. Bibliography.
Summary: "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."--Foreward
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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."--Foreward

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Archaeopress Web site, viewed on March 6, 2018).

Foreword; 1. Subsistence change, Emergence of agriculture, and Rice; 2. Background and Central Hypothesis; 3. Methodological background, Research design and analytical procedure of the Luminescence dating; 4. Methods, Research design and analytical procedure of the organic geochemical analysis; 5. The Results; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusion; 8. Bibliography.

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