Prehistoric Japan | New Perspectives On Insular East Asia | Keiji Imam

ABSTRACT

An illustrated introduction to the prehistory of Japan, treated in its own right and not as a minor part of East Asia in general.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter One|8 pages

An introduction to Japan's natural environment

chapter Two|10 pages

The periodization of Japanese archaeology

chapter Three|20 pages

Palaeolithic research on the volcanic islands

chapter Four|14 pages

Earliest pottery and the dates controversy

chapter Five|13 pages

Establishment of the Jomon economic system and stable settlements

chapter Six|12 pages

Marine transgression and fishing

chapter Seven|14 pages

Pit-traps and Jomon hunting

chapter Eight|18 pages

Plant foods and the Middle Jomon culture

chapter Nine|16 pages

Questions in the Late—Final Jomon period

chapter Ten|20 pages

The arrival of agriculture

chapter Eleven|14 pages

Racial questions of Jomon and Yayoi peoples

chapter Twelve|6 pages

Immigrant settlements and overseas trade

chapter Thirteen|12 pages

Iron and bronze

chapter Fourteen|18 pages

Political unification

chapter Fifteen|14 pages

Two late prehistories in the north and south

chapter Sixteen|14 pages

The prehistory of Japan and its position in East Asia