植物考古学与稻作农业起源研究

Plant Archeology and the Study of the Origin of Rice Farming

稻作农业起源是一个漫长的量变过程,如何划分这一渐变过程是考古学研究的一个新课题。而通过植物考古学中的浮选法获取古代植物遗存并对其进行科学的量化分析,就可对农业起源的发展过程进行分析和阶段划分。本文利用近些年来浮选发现的一些新材料讨论了长江中下游地区稻作农业起源的发展过程。

The origin of rice farming is a process of long quantitative change.It is a new topic of archaeological research in how to divide this process.Through the flotation process which is from the plant archeology to get the ancient remains of plants and the scientific quantitative analysis of these remains,we can analyze the development process of agricultural origin and phasing.In this paper,by using some of new materials found in flotation in recent years,I have discussed the development process of the origin of rice farming in middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River region.