ABSTRACT
In China, agriculture began by at least somewhere between 7,000 and 8,000 years ago. Foxtail millet and rice were respectively cultivated in northern and southern China. Almost contemporaneous was another movement in Japan, marked by an increase in the number of settlements and an intensification of their scale. The composition of stone tools suggests this development was based on plant foods, although there is also evidence of fishing in bays and on the open sea. This movement began earlier in the south and later in the north, suggesting that rising temperatures and changing patterns of vegetation gave rise to this phenomenon. In short, we see the establishment of the jomon economic system.
