Six episodes—the Jomon, Yayoi, Tohoku Yayoi, Satsumon and Ainu, Okhotsk, and Gusuku—
of agricultural development are examined. These events involve both indigenous …

Margarita Diaz-Andreu offers an innovative history of archaeology during the nineteenth
century, encompassing all its fields from the origins of humanity to the medieval period, and …

In 1992 the two of us were colleagues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. We had lots
of talks and debates about archaeology at lunch, between classes, and in each other's …

The Yayoi period represents the earliest point of agricultural dependence in Japan, dating
from∼ 2500 BP to AD 300. Yayoi period people consumed wet‐rice as a primary …

Japanese historian Louis Perez brings Mikiso Hane's rich and beloved account of early
Japanese history up-to-date in this thoroughly revised Second Edition of Premodern Japan …

This volume brings together for the first time a significant body of Professor Barnes' scholarly
writing on Japanese early state formation, brought together so that successive topics form a …

This paper argues that the centralised hierarchy that emerged at the beginning of the Kofun
(mounded tomb) period in Japan can be explained by the locations that the polities to be …

The earliest known dated ceramic containers are from East Asia. Calibrated radiocarbon
dates for the Japanese archipelago and the Russian Far East indicate that pottery was being …

The concept of complexity demands theoretical elaboration, especially in regard to
decentralized social formations such as the Bronze Age chiefdoms of northern Europe …

What is power? How does it work? Is power in politically complex societies always
constituted in the same, repeated ways, with variation only in the contextual details? This …