Yury E. Vostretsov

Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of Far East peoples, FEB RAS, Vladivostok, Russia

E-mail: vost54@mail.ru

Keywords: East Asia, Primorye, Middle Neolithic, subsistence system, bed farming system.

The article examines one of the events in the transition from the Atlantic period of the Holocene to the Subboreal one, when, during the climate cooling in the interval 4800–4500 years ago, one of the waves of early farmers resettled from the continental regions of Western Primorye and Dongbei to the littoral of the Posyet Bay. The sites left by them were later united in the Posyet group within the Zaisanovka cultural tradition. On the sea coast, at the single-layer site of Zaisanovka-7, this population formed a mixed type of subsistence system, which included millet farming and the exploitation of a variety of marine and land resources. The site traces the earliest remains of beds in the Far East, similar to those used in the bed farming system in East Asia. The article analyzes archaeological evidence of the farming system and, accordingly, the lifestyle of early farmers in the studied region, as well as the social organization of the community and its socio-demographic parameters.

DOI: 10.31857/S0869606325010114, EDN: BGJMUK