Lipid residue analysis reveals divergent culinary practices in Japan and Korea at the dawn of intensive agriculture.

ABSTRACT: The dispersal of millet and rice agriculture from Korea to Japan from around 3,000 y ago has been well documented through radiocarbon analysis of botanical remains and surveying seed impressions on pottery. Much less is known about the extent to which these novel crops were consumed and incorporated into everyday culinary practices. In Japan, agriculturalists moving from Korea would have encountered large, sedentary Final Jomon populations who had well-established hunting, foraging, and cultivation strategies for exploiting indigenous fauna and flora. The degree to which these encounters hindered or enhanced the emergence of agriculture is a key question. To investigate potential changes in food exploitation, we analyzed the contents of pottery through lipid residue analysis of 260 vessels

SUBMITTER: Craig OE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12318219 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature