农业起源是严文明先生考古学研究中的重要学术领域之一。早在20世纪80年代,他就明确提出了“稻作长江中下游起源说”的观点①;并就稻作和旱作两个农业起源地的发展和相互关系,以及它们对中国古代文明发展的基础作用进行了全面阐释。近年来,随着考古学趋于专门化的发展态势和各类交叉学科的渗入,农业起源问题正在逐渐成为植物考古和相关专业领域的专属研究内容。严文明先生对于农业起源的研究方法和系统论述,为实验室训练背景下的新一代研究者提供了重要启示:1)要全面掌 The origin of agriculture is one of the important academic fields in Yan Wenming’s archaeological research. As early as the 1980s, he explicitly put forward the view that “the origin of rice in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River” (1); and on the development and interrelationship between the two agricultural origins of paddy and dry farming and their influence on ancient China The basic role of civilized development has been fully explained. In recent years, with the trend of archeology becoming specialized and the infiltration of various interdisciplinary disciplines, the problem of agricultural origin is gradually becoming the exclusive research content in the field of plant archeology and related specialties. Yan Wenming’s research methods and systematic expositions on the origin of agriculture provide important revelations for a new generation of researchers under the background of laboratory training: 1)