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Author World Archaeological Congress (Organization). Inter-Congress.

Title Coexistence and cultural transmission in East Asia / editors Naoko Matsumoto, Hidetaka Bessho, Makoto Tomii
Published Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press, [2011]
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Description 1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series One world archaeology series ; 61
One world archaeology ; 61.
Contents Introduction : archaeological approaches toward coexistence and cultural transmissions in East Asia / N. Matsumoto, H. Bessho and M. Tomii -- Cognitive foundation of long-distance interaction and its relation to social contexts / Naoko Matsumoto -- The role of long-distance interaction in the socio-cultural change in Yayoi period, Japan / Satoru Nakazono -- The assimilation process in the Yayoi society of western Japan : was there a coexistence of different cultural groups? / Kazunori Misaka and Kunihiko Wakabayashi -- Co-existence in prehistoric Guangdong, South China / Tracey L-D. Lu -- Technological choices among maritime potter-traders : Mare islanders of northern Maluku (Indonesia) and other comparative cases / Akira Goto -- The use of livestock carcasses in each period of Japanese history : an archaeological perspective / Akira Matsui -- Changes in the perception of cattle and horses in ancient Japanese society / Hiroshi Sekiyama -- The diverse activities of the Kugonin at the medieval period Nishinotsuji Site, Osaka, Japan / Hidetaka Bessho -- Contact between indigenous people and immigrants in broad-leafed evergreen forests : plant utilization during the final Jomon period in southwestern Japan / Yudai Itakura -- The diffusion process of red burnished jars and rice paddy field agriculture from the southern part of the Korean peninsula to the Japanese archipelago / Shinpei Hashino -- The diversity of mortuary practice acceptance at the beginning of Yayoi period / Daisuke Nakamura -- The imitation and hybridization of Korean peninsula style earthenware at northern Kyushu area during Yayoi period / Yoichi Kawakami
Summary This is the first volume to introduce the data, theory and methodology of contemporary archaeological work in Japan and other parts of East Asia archaeology in English to western audiences. It also introduces a new theoretical concept to archaeologists interested in the relationship between ancient cultures-coexistence. Archaeologists traditionally examine the boundaries between different cultural groups in terms conflict and dominance rather than long-term, harmonious adaptive responses. Chapters in this book cover evidence from burials, faunal and botanical analysis, as well as traditio
Notes Papers originally presented at the WAC InterCongress held in Osaka, Japan in January 2006
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Yayoi culture -- Congresses
Jōmon culture -- Congresses
Culture diffusion -- East Asia -- Congresses
International relations -- Congresses
Excavations (Archaeology) -- East Asia -- Congresses
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Antiquities
Culture diffusion
Excavations (Archaeology)
International relations
Jōmon culture
Yayoi culture
SUBJECT East Asia -- Antiquities -- Congresses
Subject East Asia
Genre/Form Electronic book
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Matsumoto, Naoko, 1968- editor.
Bessho, Hidetaka, editor.
Tomii, Makoto, editor.
LC no. 2010044939
ISBN 9781598746587
1598746588
1315432218
9781315432212