Ancient Jomon of Japan

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext An overview of the Jomon period in Japan (circa14!500 300 BC) within the context of recent complex hunter-gatherer studies. Zusammenfassung This important but accessible 2004 text presents an overview of the archaeology of the Jomon period of Japan (circa 14,500–300 BC), 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Overview: 1. Introduction; 2. Background to the study: overview of the Jomon Period; Part II. Subsistence and Settlement: 3. Subsistence strategies; 4. Settlement archaeology; Part III. Rituals, Crafts and Trade: 5. Mortuary and ceremonial practices; 6. Crafts and exchange networks; Part IV. Discussion and Conclusion: 7. Discussion and conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Junko Habu, Junko (University of California Habu, Habu Junko
• Assisted by: Rita P. Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.2004
• EAN: 9780521776707
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77670-7
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Case Studies in Early Societies; Case Studies in Early Societie; Case Studies in Early Societie
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history