Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia

Keiji Imamura

University of Hawaii Press, 1996 - History - 246 pages

In the past few years, there has been a growing appreciation by Western scholars of the vast scale, great achievements, and methodological originality of Japanese archaeologists. However, an understanding of the results of their work has been hampered in the West by a lack of up-to-date and authoritative texts in English. This book provides Western readers for the first time with a uniquely East Asian perspective of Japanese archaeology.

Prehistoric Japan is organized into 16 chapters covering the environment, the history of the Japanese investigations of their past, the peculiarities of Japanese scholars' interests and methodologies, the organization and material culture of previous Japanese societies, economic trade and the question of immigration, the political unification of Japan, and the relationships between the core islands of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu to Hokkaido in the north and the Ryukyu Islands to the south.

Contents

• Agriculture: 5
• The Yayoi period: 13
• CHAPTER THREE: 19

Bibliographic information

• Title: Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia; Prehistoric Japan: New Perspectives on Insular East Asia, Keiji Imamura
• Author: Keiji Imamura
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, 1996
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Sep 11, 2008
• ISBN: 0824818520, 9780824818524
• Length: 246 pages
• Subjects: History / Asia / Japan