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Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan

Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan

Junko Habu

(2001)

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Abstract

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.


Junko Habu is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley. She most recently co-edited Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology (Springer, 2017).

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan i
Copyright ii
Table of Contents iii
List of Figures v
List of Tables vi
Abstract ix
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter 1. Introduction 1
Chapter 2. Theoretical Approach 2
Chapter 3. Background to the Study 10
Chapter 4. Problems, Hypotheses, Materials and Methods 27
Chapter 5. Subsistence-Settlement Systems of the Moroiso Phase 35
Chapter 6. Changes in Subsistence-Settlement Systems Through the Moroiso Phase 71
Chapter 7. Discussion and Conclusions 98
Tables 105
References 181