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Prehistoric Japan : new perspectives on insular East Asia / Keiji Imamura.

Title
Prehistoric Japan : new perspectives on insular East Asia / Keiji Imamura.
Author
Imamura, Keiji, 1946-
Publication
Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1996.

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Description
x, 246 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
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.
ISBN
  • 0824818539 (alk. paper)
  • 0824818520
LCCN
^^^96012382^
OCLC
34410946
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library