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The history of East Asia covers the people inhabiting of the eastern subregion of the Asian continent known as East Asia from prehistoric times to the present. The best known ancient civilization of prehistoric East Asia was China, which flourished in the central plain region and continued until present day. ==Prehistory== (詳細はHomo erectus ("upright man") is believed to have lived in East and Southeast Asia from 1.8 million to 40,000 years ago.〔 Their regional distinction is classified as ''Homo erectus sensu stricto''.〔(''Evolutionary Tree Information.'' ) Human Origins. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved April 23, 2014.〕 Fossils representing 40 ''Homo erectus'' individuals, known as Peking Man, were found near Beijing at Zhoukoudian that date to about 400,000 years ago. The species was believed to have lived for at least several hundred thousand years in China,〔(''Peking Man'' ). The History of Human Evolution. American Museum of Natural History. April 23, 2014.〕 and possibly until 200,000 years ago in Indonesia. They may have been the first to use fire and cook food.〔(''Homo erectus''. ) London: Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 23, 2014.〕 Homo sapiens migrated into inland Asia, likely by following herds of bison and mammoth and arrived in southern Siberia by about 43,000 years ago and some people move south or east from there.〔(''By Land and Sea.'' ) American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved April 23, 2014.〕〔(''Steppes into Asia.'' ) American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved April 23, 2014.〕 The earliest sites of neolithic culture include Nanzhuangtou culture around 9500 BC to 9000 BC,〔http://www.pnas.org/content/109/10/3726.full〕 Pengtoushan culture around 7500 BC to 6100 BC, Peiligang culture around 7000 BC to 5000 BC. The Jeulmun pottery period is sometimes labeled the "Korean Neolithic", but since intensive agriculture and evidence of European-style 'Neolithic' lifestyle is sparse at best, such terminology is misleading.〔Lee 2001〕 The Jeulmun was a period of hunting, gathering, and small-scale cultivation of plants.〔Lee 2001, 2006〕 Archaeologists sometimes refer to this life-style pattern as 'broad-spectrum hunting-and-gathering'. The Jōmon period occurred in Japan from circa 14,000 BC to 300BC, with some characteristics of both Neolithic and Mesolithic culture. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of East Asia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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