Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-879621-32-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 207 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: International Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological Series

This book examines the settlement patterns and intersite variability in lithic assemblages of Early Jomon (ca. 5000 BP) hunter-gatherers in Japan. A model is proposed that links regional settlement patterns and intersite lithic assemblage variability to residential mobility. The results of this study suggest that the Early Jomon people were not sedentary, as previously assumed, but instead moved their residential basis seasonally. The implications of this result are discussed in the context of the development of hunter-gatherer cultural complexity in general and the course of Japanese prehistory in particular.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Habu, Junko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Theoretical Approach

Chapter 3. Background to the Study: The Jomon Period

Chapter 4. Problems, Hypotheses, Materials and Methods

Chapter 5. Subsistence-Settlement Systems of the Moroiso Phase

Chapter 6. Changes in Subsistence-Settlement Systems Through the Moroiso Phase

Chapter 7. Discussion and Conclusions

Tables

References

Über Autor(innen)

Habu, Junko
Junko Habu is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley. She most recently co-edited Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology (Springer, 2017).