Substantial Study on Cultivation Process of Plants in Prehistoric Far East using “Replication method”

在日本考古学界，关于绳文社会是否存在农业的争论已持续了近世纪。由于没有可靠的植物遗迹证明绳文时代存在植物驯化，这一问题一直悬而未决。为了解决这个问题，我们采用了“复制扫描电镜法”，以寻找正确的驯化绳文和早期弥生陶器。在研究期间，我们对日本绳文、弥生等171处遗址和周边国家9处新石器时代遗址的约40万件陶片进行了检查，发现了552个种子和昆虫印迹。基于这些证据，我们已经获得了更多的有用和正确的信息绳文栽培比以前已经认为。

In Japanese archaeological studies it has been controversial for about one century that agriculture existed in Jomon Society. No reliable botanical remains which demonstrate the existence of plant domestication in Jomon Period has made the issue unsolved. To solve the problem we employed "Replication-SEM Method" for searching the correct domestications from Jomon and Early Yayoi Pottery. And we have an additional plan to establish the logical and methodological standpoint of the method in the botani-archaeological study.During our study time we have examined about 400, 000 pieces of potsherds from 171 Jomon and Yayoi sites in Japan and 9 Neolithic sites in neighboring countries and discovered 552 seeds and insect impressions. Based on these evidences we have obtained more useful and correct information on the Jomon cultigens than previously have been thought.