Agricultural Practice on the Korean Peninsula Taking into Account the Origin of Rice Agriculture in Asia

Based on Carl Sauer’s hypothesis that agricultural activity may have occurred fi rst with the domestication of tropical plants, rice was long thought to have originated in Southeast Asia, where the climate is very warm and humid, with plenty of rainfall. After many new archaeological sites with evid...

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Main Authors: Lee Jaehoon, Ли Джэхун
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Language:Russian
English
Published: IAET SB RAS 2017
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https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.1.036-048
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Cultivation
Farming
Сорори
культивация
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Farming
Сорори
культивация
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Ли Джэхун
Agricultural Practice on the Korean Peninsula Taking into Account the Origin of Rice Agriculture in Asia
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Cultivation
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культивация
description Based on Carl Sauer’s hypothesis that agricultural activity may have occurred fi rst with the domestication of tropical plants, rice was long thought to have originated in Southeast Asia, where the climate is very warm and humid, with plenty of rainfall. After many new archaeological sites with evidence of older cultivated rice were discovered throughout the 1980s and 1990s in China, agricultural scientists now generally consider the middle Yangtze River and Yunnan regions, which are farther north than Southeast Asia, as the cradle of the earliest rice cultivation. The dates and geographic locations of historic rice cultivation have been challenged even further after carbonized rice hulls were excavated from the Sorori Village in central South Korea. This paper introduces theoretical arguments related to the transition period from foraging to farming systems in Korean archaeology and regarding the origins of rice, which is currently the most important crop for Northeast Asian peoples. A brief survey of research results, the ecological conditions of Northeast Asia, the biological uniqueness of rice, and archaeological evidence for rice cultivation from the Sorori site in Korea suggests that while we do not have any strong reason to believe that there is only one center of agricultural and domestication processes, and multiple origins for domesticated rice are still conceivable, temporal and spatial frames for the early history of rice cultivation need to be expanded.
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title Agricultural Practice on the Korean Peninsula Taking into Account the Origin of Rice Agriculture in Asia
title_short Agricultural Practice on the Korean Peninsula Taking into Account the Origin of Rice Agriculture in Asia
title_full Agricultural Practice on the Korean Peninsula Taking into Account the Origin of Rice Agriculture in Asia
title_fullStr Agricultural Practice on the Korean Peninsula Taking into Account the Origin of Rice Agriculture in Asia
title_full_unstemmed Agricultural Practice on the Korean Peninsula Taking into Account the Origin of Rice Agriculture in Asia
title_sort agricultural practice on the korean peninsula taking into account the origin of rice agriculture in asia
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https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.1.036-048
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op_source Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia; Vol 45, No 1 (2017); 36-48
Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии; Vol 45, No 1 (2017); 36-48
1563-0110
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spelling ftjarchaeology:oai:oai.nsc.elpub.ru:article/250 2023-10-09T21:47:46+02:00 Agricultural Practice on the Korean Peninsula Taking into Account the Origin of Rice Agriculture in Asia Земледелие на Корейском полуострове и возникновение рисоводства на территории Азии Lee Jaehoon Ли Джэхун 2017-04-03 application/pdf https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/250 https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.1.036-048 rus eng rus eng IAET SB RAS https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/250/305 https://journal.archaeology.nsc.ru/jour/article/view/250/319 Ан Сынмо. Состав злаков бронзового века Корейского полуострова: по остаткам зерен // Хонам когохакпо. – 2008. – № 28. – С. 5–50 (на кор. яз.). Квон Гёнхун. Отпечатки зерен злаков возрастом 7 тыс. лет, обнаруженные в Пусане // Чосон ильбо. – 2011. – 24 сент. (на кор. яз.). Ким Волльён. Культура гребенчатой керамики в бассейне реки Амноккан // Пэксан хакпо. – 1967. – № 3. – С. 99–108 (на кор. яз.). Ким Джонхак. История формирования корейского народа // Хангук мунхваса дэге (Введение в историю корейской культуры). – Сеул: Изд-во Ин-та этногр. Ун-та Корё, 1964. – Т. 1. – С. 317–430 (на кор. яз.). Ким Мингу. Появление ранних форм разведения риса в бассейне р. Йонсанган // Хангук когохакпо. – 2010. – № 75. – С. 46–71 (на кор. яз.). Ли Джунджон. Обзор теорий по проблемам перехода от присваивающего хозяйства к производящему // Йоннам когохак. – 2001. – № 28. – С. 1–33 (на кор. яз.). Ли Юнджо, У Джонъюн. Второй сезон археологических исследований торфяных отложений, содержащих зерна риса, на местонахождении Сорори в уезде Чхонвон // Чхунбук тэхаккё панмульгван ёнбо (Сборник трудов Музея Ун-та Чхунбук). – Чхонджу: Музей Ун-та Чхунбук, 2001. – С. 87–106 (на кор. яз.). Сато Йо-Ичиро. ДНА-га катару инасаку бунънаэй киигэнто тэнкай (Изучение культуры возделывания риса на основе ДНК-анализов). – Токио: NHK-сюппан, 1996. – 227 с. (на яп. яз.). Сон Боги, Син Сугджон, Чан Хосу. 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Archaeology, Ethnology & Anthropology of Eurasia; Vol 45, No 1 (2017); 36-48 Археология, этнография и антропология Евразии; Vol 45, No 1 (2017); 36-48 1563-0110 земледелие Sorori Cultivation Farming Сорори культивация info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2017 ftjarchaeology https://doi.org/10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.1.036-048 2023-09-10T20:01:37Z Based on Carl Sauer’s hypothesis that agricultural activity may have occurred fi rst with the domestication of tropical plants, rice was long thought to have originated in Southeast Asia, where the climate is very warm and humid, with plenty of rainfall. After many new archaeological sites with evidence of older cultivated rice were discovered throughout the 1980s and 1990s in China, agricultural scientists now generally consider the middle Yangtze River and Yunnan regions, which are farther north than Southeast Asia, as the cradle of the earliest rice cultivation. The dates and geographic locations of historic rice cultivation have been challenged even further after carbonized rice hulls were excavated from the Sorori Village in central South Korea. This paper introduces theoretical arguments related to the transition period from foraging to farming systems in Korean archaeology and regarding the origins of rice, which is currently the most important crop for Northeast Asian peoples. A brief survey of research results, the ecological conditions of Northeast Asia, the biological uniqueness of rice, and archaeological evidence for rice cultivation from the Sorori site in Korea suggests that while we do not have any strong reason to believe that there is only one center of agricultural and domestication processes, and multiple origins for domesticated rice are still conceivable, temporal and spatial frames for the early history of rice cultivation need to be expanded. 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