More than 40years ago Kent Flannery coined the term Broad Spectrum Revolution (BSR) in
reference to a broadening of the subsistence base of Late Pleistocene hunter–gatherers in …

As a secondary setting of agricultural origins, prehistoric Korea may offer insights into the
social interactions involved in crop acquisition and the human modification of local …

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ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan Gina L …

The adoption of agriculture is one of the major developments in human history.
Archaeological studies have demonstrated that the trajectories of Neolithisation in Northwest …

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

The 'farming/language dispersal hypothesis' was originally developed to explain the spread
of the Neolithic economy and material culture into Europe. Recently, this hypothesis has …

This article presents the first isotopic investigation of human and animal bone remains from
the Middle Chulmun (3500–2000 BC) period in southeastern Korea. We have obtained a …

The Chulmun culture, documented by over 870 sites across the Korean Peninsula, presents
a long-standing Neolithic cultural niche construction from the early Holocene. This chapter …

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

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