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Ancient Jomon of Japan
by
Junko Habu
Despite an incredibly rich prehistory covering nearly ten thousand years, modern coverage of complex hunter-gatherer societies has tended to overlook the Jomon of Japan. This text presents an overview of the archaeology of the Jomon Period between 10,000 and 300 BC within the context of more recent complex hunter-gatherer societies. It bridges the gap between academic trad
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Paperback, 352 pages
Published
September 30th 2009
by Cambridge University Press
(first published July 29th 2004)
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The culture I'd most like to visit in my time canoe.
My anthro bias is that the Jomon were possibly the first cultural group to reach the Americas from Asia. And subsequently eliminated by following genetic groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8D...
Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man And The First Americans
My anthro bias is that the Jomon were possibly the first cultural group to reach the Americas from Asia. And subsequently eliminated by following genetic groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C5%8D...
Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man And The First Americans
I found this book very interesting, though I did have trouble following some of the anthropology and archaeology specific terms, seeing as I've never had any study of them. This was one of the few books I found in English on the Jomon, who are considered to be the earliest population on the Japanese islands. I became interested in them after seeing an exhibit at the Tokyo National Museum in Ueno a few months ago, but there is a lack of English language books written on them. The book was also in
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