Early Rice Cultivation on the Korean Peninsula

Timeline

1. c. -1000–-700Honam Plain · HonamEarly cultivated rice remains and stone and wooden tools appear in the wetlands and river valleys of the peninsula's south, showing rice coexisting with millet and broomcorn millet cultivation; the technology likely arrived from the mainland via the Yellow Sea coast and the Liaodong corridor.
2. c. -600–-300Nakdong River basin · GyeongsangRice cultivation spread eastward and northward; settlements showed storage pits, ring ditches, and signs of labor division, with agricultural surplus supporting Bronze Age social differentiation and forming a context of technical exchange with nearby Yayoi rice cultivation in Japan.