| Abstract: |
This paper discusses early agriculture in Korea and introduces data gathered in the 1990s to consider the origins and development of agriculture in the Korean Peninsula and Japanese Archipelago. Rice and other cultuvators were used by 3000 BC during the Chulamn period (6000 - 1500/1000 BC), but the circumstances of this use remain unclear. Research into the transition to large-scale agriculture from the Chulmun to Mumun periods (1500/1000 - 300 BC) is just beginning, but rice and millet cultivation were important from the Early Mumun (1000 - 600 BC). large and complex settlements with wet- and dry-fields have been discovered at four sites across South Korea. With the increased use of archaeobotanical analysis, the stage is set to gain a greater understanding of the origins and development of agriculture in Northeast Asia.
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