Oxenham, M;
Hoang Trinh, H;
Willis, A;
Jones, R;
Domett, K;
Cobo Castillo, C;
Wood, R;
... Buckley, H; + view all
(2018)
Between foraging and farming: Strategic responses to the Holocene Thermal Maximum in Southeast Asia.
Antiquity
, 92
(364)
pp. 940-957.
10.15184/aqy.2018.69.
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Abstract
Large, ‘complex’ pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherer communities thrived in southern China and northern Vietnam, contemporaneous with the expansion of farming. Research at Con Co Ngua in Vietnam suggests that such hunter-gatherer populations shared characteristics with early farming communities: high disease loads, pottery, complex mortuary practices and access to stable sources of carbohydrates and protein. The substantive difference was in the use of domesticated plants and animals—effectively representing alternative responses to optimal climatic conditions. The work here suggests that the supposed correlation between farming and a decline in health may need to be reassessed.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Between foraging and farming: Strategic responses to the Holocene Thermal Maximum in Southeast Asia |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.15184/aqy.2018.69 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2018.69 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Southeast Asia, Con Co Ngua, hunter-gatherers, domestication, palaeopathology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10061127 |
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