Subsistence-settlement systems and intersite variability in the Moroiso phase of the early Jomon period of Japan / by Junko Habu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Habu, Junko, 1959- author.

Series:

Archaeological series (Ann Arbor, Mich.) ; 14.

Archaeological series ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hunting and gathering societies--Japan.

Hunting and gathering societies.

Jōmon culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 207 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : International Monographs in Prehistory, 2001.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Theoretical approach

Background to the study : the Jomon period

Problems, hypotheses, materials, and methods

Subsistence-settlement systems of the Moroiso phase

Changes in subsistence-settlement systems through the Moroiso phase

Discussion and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789201703

1789201705

OCLC:

1347247402