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Prehistoric Japan : new perspectives on insular East Asia

Title: Prehistoric Japan : new perspectives on insular East Asia / Keiji Imamura.
Author: Imamura, Keiji, 1946-
Publication: London : UCL Press, 1996.

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Description

x, 246 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 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 -- Ch. 16. The prehistory of Japan and its position in East Asia.

ISBN

1857286162
9781857286168
1857286170
9781857286175

OCLC

ocm36290005
36290005
SCSB-2124573

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library