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Author: Keiji Imamura
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-09-17
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1135362408
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated introduction to the prehistory of Japan, treated in its own right and not as a minor part of East Asia in general.
Author: Nelly Naumann
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9783447043298
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The existing literature on Japanese prehistory is mostly focussed on describing material culture; this new study surveys the early artifacts and shows that they were either neglected in previous studies or reported of by unfounded and fantastic speculation. The author identifies prehistoric ideas concerning hunting and fishing, the cult of the dead, and the after-life. The cosmological implications of burial topography and stone-circles are as well examined as older written texts from other parts of the world aiding in elucidating the symbols recognized on these remains. This helps to link the Jo-mon materials to other remains of similar or older age from the ancient Near East, China, the Pacific, and ancient America and proves that prehistoric Japan was never really isolated from the rest of the world. Although the method developed in this study, which rejects speculation and bases itself entirely on archaeological remains, permits only the elucidation of a part of the rich spiritual culture of prehistoric Japan; it reveals an abundance of new information concerning the most important religious ideas of mankind: the constant renewal of life, and the belief that death is not the ultimate end.
Author: Junko Habu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07-29
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780521776707
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Author: Tatsuo Kobayashi
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fully-illustrated introduction to the archaeology of the Jomon period in Japan, this book explores the complex relationships between Jomon people and their rich natural environment. From the end of the last Ice Age 12,000 years ago to the appearance of rice agriculture around 400 BC, Jomon people subsisted by hunting, fishing and gathering; but abundant and predictable sources of wild food enabled Jomon people to live in large, relatively permanent settlements, and to develop an elaborate material culture. In this book Kobayashi and Kaner explore thematic issues in Jomon archaeology: the appearance of sedentism in the Japanese archipelago and the nature of Jomon settlements; the invention of pottery and the development and meaning of regional pottery styles; social and spiritual life; as well as the astronomical significance of causeway monuments and the conceptualisation of landscape in the Jomon period. These ideas are considered in the light of current work in the European Mesolithic and Neolithic, setting Jomon archaeology within a global context. The book draws extensively on new archaeological information from various parts of Japan, including the sites of Sannai Maruyama, Isedotai, Komankino among others. Extensive colour illustrations provide a vivid demonstration of Jomon ideology and creativity. Tatsuo Kobayashi is Professor of Archaeology at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo and Director of the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History. Simon Kraner is Assistant Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.
Author: Gerard J. Groot
Publisher: Books for Libraries
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ann Kumar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-11-24
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1135784728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This iconoclastic work on the prehistory of Japan and of South East Asia challenges entrenched views on the origins of Japanese society and identity. The social changes that took place in Japan in the time-period when the Jomon culture was replaced by the Yayoi culture were of exceptional magnitude, going far beyond those of the so-called Neolithic Revolution in other parts of the world. They included not only a new way of life based on wet-rice agriculture but also the introduction of metalworking in both bronze and iron, and furthermore a new architecture functionally and ritually linked to rice cultivation, a new religion, and a hierarchical society characterized by a belief in the divinity of the ruler. Because of its immense and enduring impact the Yayoi period has generally been seen as the very foundation of Japanese civilization and identity. In contrast to the common assumption that all the Yayoi innovations came from China and Korea, this work combines exciting new scientific evidence from such different fields as rice genetics, DNA and historical linguistics to show that the major elements of Yayoi civilization actually came, not from the north, but from the south.
Author: Jonathan Edward Kidder
Publisher: Kodansha America
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780870110955
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Koji Mizoguchi
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002-05-07
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780812236514
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An original, substantial contribution to interpretive archaeology (the first of its kind for Japan and East Asia), An Archaeological History of Japan addresses a broad range of issues concerning the self-identification of groups and the use of the past in contemporary society.
Author: Mark J. Hudson
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2021-11-11
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 1803271159
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This study considers the ways in which archaeology and landscapes of the archaic have been appropriated in Japanese nationalism since the early twentieth century, focusing on the writings of cultural historian Tetsurō Watsuji, philosopher Takeshi Umehara and environmental archaeologist Yoshinori Yasuda.
