The spread of agriculture is an important topic of archaeological research, but relatively few
studies address the drivers behind the spread of specific species empirically. Here we use …

The earliest pottery on the Korean peninsula dates to the early Holocene, notably later than
other regions of East Asia, such as Japan, the Russian Far East and Southern China. To …

Recent work in three major research themes involving molluscs is reviewed: 1. molluscs in
past human diets and subsistence systems, sclerochemistry and seasonality studies on …

Population growth has been evoked both as a causal factor and consequence of the
transition to agriculture. The use of radiocarbon (14C) dates as proxies for population allows …

Here, we present δ13C and δ15N results for the dietary reconstruction of nomadic
pastoralists from the Iron Age (ca. 1000 bc–8 ad) site of Heigouliang. The human (n= 27) …

In archaeology, the use of pottery was traditionally associated with increasing sedentism
among food-producing societies. However, these assumptions have long since been …

The use of non-destructive portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) analysis for provenance
studies of ceramics requires careful evaluation of the quality of data and selection of reliably …

Expanding diet breadth to previously unexplored resources was a key strategy in Neolithic
adaptation through the Holocene. Most prominently, marine resources became substantial …

Understanding the development of early states on the Korean Peninsula is an important
topic in Korean archaeology. However, it is not clear how social structure was organized by …

Despite its importance, exploring prehistoric community formation presents significant
epistemological and methodological challenges. In Korean archaeology, these issues have …