Abstract
This study attempts to understand the role of Broad-Spectrum Revolution (hereafter, BSR) in the Neolithic East Asia, especially focusing on the China, Japanese archipelago, and Korean peninsula. This paper also tried to reveal how BSR and the initial beginning of plant domestication are related in those contexts. Initially introduced in 1969 by Kent Flannery, the concept quickly became a powerful explanatory tool for understanding prehistoric human subsistence strategy and emergence of both plant and animal domestication. BSR has been often conjoined with theoretical frameworks such as diet-breath model based on optimal foraging theory and environmental niche construction to explain prehistoric subsistence pattern. In this study, I tried to synthesize recent evidence regarding Neolithic subsistence generated from advanced techniques including organic residue analysis and paleoethnobotany. The results indicated that BSR was clearly found at least in some part of East Asia, and some of them showed evidence of initial plant domestication. With this study, we were able assume affinity between BSR and the beginning of plant domestication in certain area of East Asia.
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