[FORAGERS AND FARMERS IN THE JAPANESE ISLANDS] The archaeology of early agriculture in the Korean Peninsula: an update on recent developments

Bale, Martin T.

doi:10.7152/bippa.v21i0.11765

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“…Hunter–gathering was a major element of the subsistence economy of Neolithic Korea. The practice of some form of Neolithic agriculture had long been raised as a possibility (Nelson, 1993 ), but new finds are continuing to transform the field (Bale, 2001 ; Lee et al, 2019 ; Kwak et al, 2020 ). Chenopodium sp., soybeans ( Glycine max ) and adzuki beans ( Vigna angularis ) may already have been grown by the Early Neolithic (Shin et al, 2012 , p. 76; Lee et al, 2019 ; Kwak et al, 2020 ).…”

Section: Korean Archaeology and Ethno-linguistic Origins: Backgroundmentioning

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Archaeolinguistic evidence for the farming/language dispersal of Koreanic

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Robbeets

2020

Evolut. Hum. Sci.

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While earlier research often saw Altaic as an exception to the farming/language dispersal hypothesis, recent work on millet cultivation in northeast China has led to the proposal that the West Liao basin was the Neolithic homeland of a Transeurasian language family. Here, we examine the archaeolinguistic evidence used to associate millet farming dispersals with Proto-Macro-Koreanic, analysing the identification of population movements in the archaeological record, the role of small-scale cultivation in language dispersals, and Middle-Late Neolithic demography. We conclude that the archaeological evidence is consistent with the arrival and spread of Proto-Macro-Koreanic on the peninsula in association with millet cultivation in the Middle Neolithic. This dispersal of Proto-Macro-Koreanic occurred before an apparent population crash after 3000 BC, which can probably be linked with a Late Neolithic decline affecting many regions across northern Eurasia. We suggest plague (Yersinia pestis) as one possible cause of an apparently simultaneous population decline in Korea and Japan.

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Section: Korean Archaeology and Ethno-linguistic Origins: Backgroundmentioning

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Archaeolinguistic evidence for the farming/language dispersal of Koreanic

Hudson

Robbeets

2020

Evolut. Hum. Sci.

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“…Millet cultivation also spread to the Primorye (Maritime) province of the Russian Far East at around the same time (Kuzmin, 2013a;Li et al, 2020;Miyamoto, 2014). Rice farming then reached Korea from the Shandong and Liaodong peninsulas by 1500 BC during the transition to the Bronze Age (Ahn, 2010;Bale, 2001;Lee, 2016;Stevens and Fuller, 2017). Linguistically, this transition may have been associated with proto-Japonic (Robbeets, 2017).…”

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“…In Korea, for example, the Bronze Age is often defined by Mumun ('Plain Pottery') which was used several hundred years before the appearance of bronze (Norton, 2007, p. 137;Bae & Kim, 2015). The term 'megalithic period' is also sometimes used for this stage (see Nelson, 1993;Bale, 2001). Such definitional problems confuse inter-regional comparisons.…”

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Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change

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From northern China, millet agriculture spread to Korea and the Maritime Russian Far East by 3500–2700 BC. While the expansion of agricultural societies across the Sea of Japan did not occur until around 900 BC, the intervening period saw major transformations in the Japanese archipelago. The cultural florescence of Middle Jōmon central Honshu underwent a collapse and reorganisation into more decentralised settlements. Mobility increased as Late Jōmon influences spread from eastern into western Japan, and populations expanded to offshore islands such as Okinawa and the Kurils. In Kyushu and other parts of western Japan, the eastern Jōmon expansion was associated with the cultivation of adzuki and soybeans but, contrary to earlier assessments, there is no evidence for the introduction of cereal crops at this time. Here, we analyse archaeological and historical linguistic evidence of connections between the Eurasian mainland and the Japanese Islands c. 3500 to 900 BC. A re-evaluation of archaeological material discussed since the 1920s concludes that the transformations in Jōmon society during this period were at least in part a response to contacts with Eurasian Bronze Age cultures. Evidence for linguistic contact between Koreanic and the Ainuic languages which are presumed to have been spoken by Jōmon populations is also consistent with new Bronze Age mobilities. Although prehistoric Japan was one of the most isolated regions of Eurasia, we conclude that the historical evolution of societies in the Japanese archipelago after the third millennium BC was linked with processes of Bronze Age globalisation.

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Las interpretaciones arqueológicas y la aparición de fortificaciones en el período protohistórico de Corea (300 aC – 300 dC) = The Archaeological Interpretations and the Emergence of Fortifications in the Protohistoric Period of Korea

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2017

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inmediata dentro de su contexto, considerando las construcciones emprendidas tanto por autoridades chinas como por las primeras confederaciones coreanas. Palabras claveFortificaciones; arquitectura militar; Asia; Corea; China. AbstractThis article aims to analyze archaeologically the fortifications of the protohistoric period of Korea (300 BC -300 AD), comprising the embankments, palisades and moats of the first urban centres as well as possible border walls, in a key moment in the social, political, cultural and architectonic evolution of the peninsula, of transition from villages to cities and from tribal chiefdoms to the confederation of small city-states that eventually formed the first centralized kingdoms. It is taken into account walled sites of the Koguryo kingdom (in the north), of the Samhan tribal confederations like the city-states of Wirye and Saro (in the south), and of the administrative districts of the Chinese empire in Korea (Han commanderies). Given the murky and controversial nationalist interpretations of the different East Asian historiographical traditions (Korea, Japan and China), we will try to situate within its context the emergence of the urban military architecture in the peninsula and the nearby area, considering the constructions undertaken both by Chinese authorities and by the first Korean confederacies. We will try to place the emergence of the urban military architecture of the peninsula and the nearby area within its context, considering the constructions undertaken both by Chinese authorities and by the first Korean confederacies.

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[FORAGERS AND FARMERS IN THE JAPANESE ISLANDS] The archaeology of early agriculture in the Korean Peninsula: an update on recent developments

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Archaeolinguistic evidence for the farming/language dispersal of Koreanic

Archaeolinguistic evidence for the farming/language dispersal of Koreanic

Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change

Las interpretaciones arqueológicas y la aparición de fortificaciones en el período protohistórico de Corea (300 aC – 300 dC) = The Archaeological Interpretations and the Emergence of Fortifications in the Protohistoric Period of Korea

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