The archaeology of Japan : : from the earliest rice farming villages to the rise of the state / / Koji Mizoguchi.
"This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c. 600 BC - 700 AD), 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 J...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : Cambridge University Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge world archaeology
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (393 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: the beginning of everything?; 2. A tale of co-transformation: the history of modern Japan and the archaeology of the Yayoi and Kofun periods; 3. Frameworks; 4. Environment and the East Asian context; 5. Beginnings: from the Incipient Yayoi (900/600 BC) to the Late Yayoi I periods (400/200 BC); 6. An archaeology of growth: from the Final Yayoi I (400/200 BC) to the end of the Yayoi IV (AD 1/50); 7. An archaeology of hierarchisation: from the final Yayoi IV to the Yayoi V periods (AD 1/50-200); 8. An archaeology of networks: the Yayoi-Kofun transition (the Shonai pottery style and the earliest Furu pottery style phase, AD 200-250/275); 9. An archaeology of monuments: the Early Kofun (AD 275-400) and Middle Kofun periods (AD 400-500); 10. An archaeology of bureaucracy: the Later Kofun period (AD 500-600); 11. An archaeology of governance: the establishment of the Ten'no emperor (AD 600-700); 12. Conclusion.