人类学对农耕发轫与文化起源的探讨

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Abstract The relationship between the starting of agriculture and the origin of culture has been a topic of common concern in natural sciences and humanities since ancient times. Since the rise of modern anthropology, it has applied its comprehensive advantages of the way of holistic and multi-angle scientific methods to start with archaeological/prehistoric evidence, examine human evolution and ancient ecology and paleogeology-climate and other factors, and use a large amount of ancient ecological scientific research evidence to decipher many problems that were difficult to solve for countless centuries. Another feature of anthropology's research on this topic is that it uses its new methodology to combine the results of ancient fossils and paleoclimate-biology research, and conducts comparative and parallel research in contemporary primitive tribal communities known as “living fossils”, thereby exploring the survival and living conditions of humans in prehistoric times and link up for the lack of data in fossils and written history. It connects the broken and missing links in the chain of evidence of human evolution and the origin of agriculture and civilization, thus putting this research on the right track. The anthropological method organically integrates the topics of the beginnings of agriculture and the origins of human civilization. It regards labor, tools making, and the evolution of human physique and intelligence as the premise and material-intellectual preparation for creating civilization, laying a solid foundation for the theoretical speculation of the successful evolution of mankind and the origin of material and spiritual civilization.

Key words： anthropology origins of agriculture Stone Age human evolution domestication prehistory the origin of civilization

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WANG Hai-long. Anthropological Exploration of the Origins of Agriculture and Culture[J]. , 2025, 42(4): 22-32.

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