HY 113 Chapter Notes - Chapter Intro: Domestication Of The Horse, Nomadic Pastoralism, Mumun Pottery Period
22 Aug 2016
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Connections: The Prehistory of East Asia
•Human beings first appeared in Eastern Asia over 1 million years ago
•Earlier examples of Homus erectus have been found in South China
•Modern humans appeared in East Asia just 50,000 years ago
•Modern theories state that Homo sapiens spread out to Africa and displaced the H. erectus
•Peking Man is the ancestor of modern Chinese
•From 50,000 to 10,000 BCE, East Asia was home to paleolithic tribes
•People from Northeast Asia moved to the Americas and from South China and Southeast Asia to the
Pacific and Australia
•Language was forming and linking the modern languages of today
•Suggests at least three routes through Asia
•Soon after 10,000 BCE, people in Japan began making some of the earliest pottery
•China after the Ice Age followed the pattern in Western Europe (agriculture and domestication, work in
textiles)
•This allowed for more permanent settlements
•Transition of clan leadership from warriors and hunters to skilled elders
•Distinct cultures can be divided geographically
•Southern rice zone
•Northern millet zone
•Eastern jade zone
•Western painted pottery zone
•Animals were domesticated by 3000 BCE
•Rice was found in China as early as 8000 BCE
•Millet became the foundation of agriculture in north China
•Local people hunted deer and collected clams, snails, and turtles
•The divide in cultures may have had connections to language and religion
•Pottery painting varied between cultures
•Different cultures had different funeral rituals as well
•China’s prehistory ends at around 2000 BCE
•From 600 to 300 BCE, it became normal to ride and domesticate horses
•With this, some cultures adopted nomadic pastoralism
•Changes in leadership can be charted with observing the burial materials
•Northern Zone began to become more homogenous amongst their cultures
•Korean leadership was shifted from Jeulmun to Mumun
•Grain production and metalworking became prevalent
•Rice cultivation came about in 300 BCE
•Iron tools, silk, and weaving technology spread into Japan at this time
•“As we can see from this review of prehistory, con- tact among the societies of East Asia did not lead to
identical developmental sequences.”
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