东南亚地区农业起源研究综论

A Review of Research on the Origin of Agriculture in Southeast Asia

自20世纪50年代始,东南亚地区的农业起源探索历程至今已半个多世纪。大量考古发现表明,东南亚早期农业的性质是依赖于根系作物的驯化和块茎作物的栽培,该地区早期农业的特点与树木栽培的实践紧密相连,但农业起源的时间尺度仍未很好地建立。基于东南亚地区植物遗存和农业性质的特殊性,多种研究方法得以运用,也相继提出了许多不同的理念。东南亚地区农业起源的研究对中国华南地区早期农业的探索具有很好的启示作用。

It has been more than a half-century since the research on the origin of agriculture in Southeast Asia started to be carried out in the 1950s. Numerous archaeological discoveries have indicated that the nature of the early agriculture in Southeast Asia was based on the domestication of root crops and the cultivation of tubers, and that the characteristics of early agriculture in this region were closely related to the practices of arboricuhure. Yet the time scale of the agricultural origin has not been well established. Due to the particularity of the plant remains and agricultural features in this region, scholars have applied multiple research methods and developed a range of different concepts. The research into the agricultural origin in Southeast Asia is instructive to the exploration of early agriculture in Southeast China.