An evaluation of competing hypotheses for the early adoption of wheat in East Asia
An evaluation of competing hypotheses for the early adoption of wheat in East Asia
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DOI：
10.1080/00438243.2014.953703
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发表时间：
2014-10-20
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
An, Cheng-Bang
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作者：
Barton, Loukas;An, Cheng-Bang
最近强调恢复植物遗骸从考古遗址在东亚允许史前文化之间的东西方接触的分析。在这里，我们评估了三个突出的假设小麦，近东驯化，东亚，特别是北方中国。现有的证据表明，该植物的出现几乎是同步的，从亚洲内陆山脉到黄海，c。4600-4200年前。考古数据，包括直接日期的小麦颗粒的空间分布，反对小麦种植殖民者的浪潮，但指出各种各样的先前存在的农业民族逐渐在原地采用新颖的异国情调。从创新文献的传播中借用的逻辑解释了小麦在一个巨大的地区几乎同步出现的原因，并且允许偶尔观察到非常古老的证据，而不必将这些证据想象为传播的起源。
Recent emphasis on the recovery of plant remains from archaeological sites in East Asia permits an analysis of prehistoric cultural contact between East and West. Here we evaluate three prominent hypotheses for the introduction of wheat, a Near Eastern domesticate, to East Asia, specifically northern China. Existing evidence points to a nearly synchronous appearance of the plant, from the Inner Asian Mountains to the Yellow Sea, c. 4600-4200 years ago. Archaeological data, including the spatial distribution of directly dated wheat grains, argue against a wave of wheat-farming colonists, but point to the gradual in situ adoption of novel exotics by a diverse array of pre-existing agricultural peoples. Logic borrowed from the diffusion of innovations literature accounts for the near synchronous appearance of wheat over an enormous area, and allows for the occasional observation of anomalously older evidence without having to imagine such evidence as the origin of the diffusion.