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Title:

THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF JAPAN
FROM THE EARLIEST RICE FARMING VILLAGES TO THE RISE OF THE STATE

By:

Koji Mizoguchi

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

052188490X

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9780521884907

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

25 November, 2013

Series:

Cambridge World Archaeology

Pages:

392

Description:

The first book-length introduction to the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC-AD 700).

Synopsis:

This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC-AD 700), in which the introduction of rice paddy-field farming from the Korean peninsula ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient Japanese state. The author traces the historical trajectory of the Yayoi and Kofun periods by employing cutting-edge sociological, anthropological and archaeological theories and methods. The book reveals a fascinating process through which sophisticated hunting-gathering communities in an archipelago on the eastern fringe of the Eurasian continent were transformed materially and symbolically into a state.

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94 b/w illus. 3 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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