Toward an alternative perspective on the foraging and low-level food production on the coast of China

The coast of China's early Neolithic economy has been interpreted in different ways and terminologies. Most early Neolithic societies in coastal China were involved in some kinds of food production activities, but they were mostly subsidiary to foraging, and in some island communities, foraging marine resources was the primary subsistence pattern. This kind of economic pattern had a great impact on the prehistoric process in this region, affecting its population density, the pace of social complexity process, and other cultural dynamics.