Reassessing the concept of the ‘Neolithic’ in the Jomon of Western Japan

The concept of the Mesolithic/Neolithic transition is difficult to apply in the Japanese archipelago. The earliest pottery usage occurs in late Palaeolithic contexts. Holocene foragers lived in stable, permanent village settlements and constructed large scale monuments, and the first real ‘agricultu...

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Main Authors: Simon Kaner, Takeshi Ishikawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2007-12-01
Series:Documenta Praehistorica
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/2077