During the adoption of large-scale wet rice agriculture in the Japanese archipelago, it was supposed that people living in the most northern island, Hokkaido, continued living in a way broadly similar to how they had been for centuries. Essentially, these people were supposed to have been “left behind”, a narrative common to studies of hunter-gatherer groups the world over. Analysis of the evidence from both the Final Jomon and Epi-Jomon periods shows this to be untrue.Attempting to actively challenge prevailing notions of monolithic cultures and unchanging hunter-gatherer societies, this research was based on the analysis of mortuary practices at 4 Jomon sites across the island of Hokkaido, Northern Japan. By taking a diachronic approach t...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014Ethnographic and archaeological research shows that hu...
Hamanaka 2 is a multi-phase coastal site in Rebun Island with a ~ 3000-year occupation sequence exte...
Many archaeologists investigated the burial practices of the Jomon in order to clarify emerging soci...
During the adoption of large-scale wet rice agriculture in the Japanese archipelago, it was supposed...
several avenues of research into human palaeoeconomic issues and general pro-cesses of culture chang...
People of the Jomon period (currently dated from about 14,000 B.C. to the first millennium B.C.) beg...
This study was conducted to elucidate the introduction of agriculture and social continuity from the...
A fully illustrated introduction to the archaeology of the Jomon period in Japan, this book explores...
In this thesis, organic residues preserved in ancient pottery are used to reconstruct diversity andc...
This paper discusses prehistoric subsistence and the development of plant husbandry in northeastern ...
Regional group identities are critical concepts for intellectual debate in the social sciences today...
On Hokkaido Island, the northernmost island cluster of the Japanese archipelago, humans started to m...
The concept of the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition is difficult to apply in the Japanese archipelago...
One of the most entrenched binary oppositions in archaeology and anthropology has been the agricultu...
It is widely known that social change occurred in the end of the Middle Jōmon, which can be seen in ...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014Ethnographic and archaeological research shows that hu...
Hamanaka 2 is a multi-phase coastal site in Rebun Island with a ~ 3000-year occupation sequence exte...
Many archaeologists investigated the burial practices of the Jomon in order to clarify emerging soci...
During the adoption of large-scale wet rice agriculture in the Japanese archipelago, it was supposed...
several avenues of research into human palaeoeconomic issues and general pro-cesses of culture chang...
People of the Jomon period (currently dated from about 14,000 B.C. to the first millennium B.C.) beg...
This study was conducted to elucidate the introduction of agriculture and social continuity from the...
A fully illustrated introduction to the archaeology of the Jomon period in Japan, this book explores...
In this thesis, organic residues preserved in ancient pottery are used to reconstruct diversity andc...
This paper discusses prehistoric subsistence and the development of plant husbandry in northeastern ...
Regional group identities are critical concepts for intellectual debate in the social sciences today...
On Hokkaido Island, the northernmost island cluster of the Japanese archipelago, humans started to m...
The concept of the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition is difficult to apply in the Japanese archipelago...
One of the most entrenched binary oppositions in archaeology and anthropology has been the agricultu...
It is widely known that social change occurred in the end of the Middle Jōmon, which can be seen in ...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014Ethnographic and archaeological research shows that hu...
Hamanaka 2 is a multi-phase coastal site in Rebun Island with a ~ 3000-year occupation sequence exte...
Many archaeologists investigated the burial practices of the Jomon in order to clarify emerging soci...