Ancient Ryukyu : : An Archaeological Study of Island Communities /

Ancient Ryukyu : : An Archaeological Study of Island Communities / / Richard Pearson.

Who are the people of the Ryukyu Islands? How could they survive and prosper on small, isolated islands? How did the independent Ryukyu Kingdom become a major player in East Asian medieval trade?Ancient Ryukyu explores 30,000 years of human occupation in the Ryukyu Islands, from the earliest human p...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013
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Pearson, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (412 p.) :; 36 illustrations, 20 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: The Archaeology of Ryukyu Islanders
  • 2. The Active Environment of the Ryukyus
  • 3. Pleistocene Inhabitants
  • 4. Arriving and Settling: Island Hunter-Gatherer Colonization and Interaction
  • 5. Surviving in the Archipelago: Island Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence
  • 6. Exchange Networks and the Lure of Tropical Shells
  • 7 The Gusuku Period (AD 1050 to 1429): A New Order
  • 8. Ryukyu Trade in the Gusuku and Early Ryukyu Kingdom Periods
  • 9. The Early Ryukyu Kingdom (AD 1429 to 1609)
  • 10. Discussion and Conclusions
  • Appendix 1: Building a Chronology of Trade Ceramics
  • Appendix 2: The Successive Rulers of the Chūzan or Ryukyu Kingdom
  • Glossary of Japanese and Chinese Characters
  • References Cited
  • Index
  • About the Author

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