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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Habu, Junko,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2001]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: International Monographs in Prehistory: Archaeological Series ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; Abstract --; Acknowledgments --; Chapter I. Introduction --; Chapter II. Theoretical Approach --; Chapter III. Background to the Study: The Jomon Period --; Chapter IV. Problems, Hypotheses, Materials and Methods --; Chapter V. Subsistence-Settlement Systems of the Moroiso Phase --; Chapter VI. Changes in Subsistence-Settlement Systems Through the Moroiso Phase --; Chapter VII. Discussion and Conclusions --; Tables --; References
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789201703; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789201703?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Junko Habu.

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.