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Subject(s)

• Japan—History—To 645 [Browse]
• Japan—Relations—East Asia [Browse]
• East Asia—Relations—Japan [Browse]

Medium/​Support

illustration map. rdaill

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.

Contents

• Ch. 1. An introduction to Japan's natural environment
• Ch. 2. The periodization of Japanese archaeology
• Ch. 3. Palaeolithic research on the volcanic islands
• Ch. 4. Earliest pottery and the dates controversy
• Ch. 5. Establishment of the Jomon economic system and stable settlements
• Ch. 6. Marine transgression and fishing
• Ch. 7. Pit-traps and Jomon hunting
• Ch. 8. Plant foods and the Middle Jomon culture
• Ch. 9. Questions in the Late-Final Jomon period
• Ch. 10. The arrival of agriculture
• Ch. 11. Racial questions of Jomon and Yayoi peoples
• Ch. 12. Immigrant settlements and overseas trade
• Ch. 13. Iron and bronze
• Ch. 14. Political unification
• Ch. 15. Two late prehistories in the north and south.

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ISBN

• 0824818539 ((alk. paper))
• 9780824818531 ((alk. paper))
• 0824818520 ((alk. paper))
• 9780824818524 ((alk. paper))

LCCN

96012382

OCLC

34410946

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