Austronesian’ and ‘Jōmon’ identities in the Neolithic of the Ryukyu Islands
This paper examines Neolithic cultural identities in the Ryukyu Islands of southwest Japan. It is argued that there were two different identities in this archipelago: a ‘Jōmon’ identity in the northern and central Ryukyus and an ‘Austronesian’ identity in the southern Ryukyus. These identities were...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
2012-12-01
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| Series: | Documenta Praehistorica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/1822 |