Ancient Jomon of Japan

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Cambridge University Press, 29 lip 2004 - 332
Despite an incredibly rich prehistory covering a period of nearly ten thousand years, modern discussion of complex hunter-gatherer societies has tended to refer to the Jomon of Japan in a rather cursory fashion. This important but accessible text presents an overview of the archaeology of the Jomon Period between 10,000 and 3 00BC within the context of more recent complex hunter-gatherer societies, and aims to bridge the gap between academic traditions in Japanese and Anglo-American archaeology. It represents an invaluable source of reflection on the development of complexity in human history.
 

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Introduction
3
Theoretical approaches
7
Summary
25
Background to the study overview of the Jomon period
26
Chronological framework
37
Environment and c1imate
42
Population estimates
46
Physical anthropological studies
50
Rituals crafts and trade
135
Mortuary and ceremonial practices
137
History of the study of Jomon mortuary and ceremonial practices
138
Types of ritual artifacts
142
Types of burial
159
Burials and social inequality
176
Mortuary practices and cultural landscapes
179
Construction of ceremonial and monumental features
182

Subsistence and settlement
55
Subsistence strategies
57
Salmon hypothesis and plant cultivation hypothesis
60
The Jomon calendar
61
Jomon collectors
62
Food storage and nut collecting
64
Other plant foods as possibIe stapIes
70
Maritime adaptation and development of shel1middens
72
Regional variability and changes through time
77
Settlement archaeology
79
Questions about Jomon settlement size and the degree of sedentism
85
Analysis of Ear1y Jomon settlement data from central Japan
87
The Sannai Maruyama site and its place in regional settlement systems
108
Discussion
132
Discussion
195
Crafts and exchange networks
200
Studies of Jomon pottery
201
woodworking lacquerware basketry and textiles
214
Exchange networks of exotic and nonexotic goods
221
Transportation
236
Discussion
237
Discussion and conclusion
241
Discussion and conclusion
243
Development of Jomon cultural complexity
245
References
263
Index
318
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Junko Habu is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley. She has conducted fieldwork both in Japan and in North America. Her publications include Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan, International Monographs in Prehistory (2001).

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