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Jomon Bibliography

Scientific Articles and Books on the Jomon

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Akazawa, Takeru and C. M. Aikens, eds. 1986. Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in Japan. Tokyo, Japan: University of Tokyo Press.

Yoneda, Minoru, et al. 2004 Radiocarbon and stable isotope analyses on the earliest Jomon skeletons from the Tochibara rockshelter, Nagano, Japan. Radiocarbon 44(2):549–557.

Crawford, Gary W. 1983 Paleoethnobotany of the Kameda Peninsula Jomon. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Anthropological Papers No. 73, Ann Arbor.

Crawford, Gary W. 1997 Anthropogenesis in Prehistoric Northeastern Japan. In People, Plants, and Landscapes: Studies in Paleoethnobotany, edited by K. Gremillion. University of Alabama Press.

Crawford, Gary W. and Peter Bleed 1998 Scheduling and Sedentism in the Prehistory of Northern Japan. In Identifying Seasonality and Sedentism in Archaeological Sites: Old and New World Perspectives, edited by T. Rocek and O. Bar-Yosef. Peabody Museum, Harvard University, D'Andrea, A. Catherine Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Crawford, Gary W. and Hiroto Takamiya 1990 The Origins and Implications of Late Prehistoric Plant Husbandry in Northern Japan. Antiquity 64(245):889-911.

D'Andrea, A. Catherine 1995 Archaeobotanical Evidence for Zoku-Jomon Subsistence at the Mochiyazawa Site, Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Archaeological Science 22:583-595.

D'Andrea, A. Catherine, Gary W. Crawford, M. Yoshizaki and T. Kudo 1995 Late Jomon Cultigens in Northeastern Japan. Antiquity 69(262):146-152.

Dickinson, William R., et al. 1999 Japanese Jomon sherds in artifact collections from Mele Plain in Vanuatu. Archaeology in Oceania 34:15-24.

Habu, Junko. 2004. Ancient Jomon of Japan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Habu, Junko and Clare Fawcett 1999 Jomon archaelogy and the representation of Japanese origins. Antiquity 73:587-793.

Hall, Mark E. 2004 Pottery production during the Late Jomon period: insights from the chemical analyses of Kasori B pottery. Journal of Archaeological Science 31:1439-1450.

Hings, H. 1989 Freshwater fishing in the Early Jomon Period (Japan): An analysis of fish remains from the Torihama shell mound. Journal of Archaeological Science 16(4):313-354.

Imamura, Keiji 2006 Archaeological theory and Japanese methodology in Jomon research: a review of Junko Habu's "Ancient Jomon of Japan". Anthropological Science 114 223-229. Free download

Kobayashi, Tatsuo. 2004. Jomon Reflections: Forager life and culture in the prehistoric Japanese archipelago.. Oxbow Books, Oxford UK.

Mace, Francois 1998 Le Japon des Origines. Archeologia 350:42-51.

Matsui, Akira and Masaaki Kanehara. 2006. The question of prehistoric plant husbandry during the Jomon Period in Japan. World Archaeology 38(2):259-273.

Matsumura, Hirofumi, Mark J. Hudson, Kenichiro Koshida, and Yoichi Minakawa 2006 Embodying Okhotsk ethnicity: Human skeletal remains from the Aonae Dune Site, Okushiri island, Hokkaido. Asian Perspectives 45(1):1-23.

Pearson, Richard 2006 Jomon hot spot: increasing sedentism in south-western Japan in the Incipient Jomon (14,000-9250 cal. bc) and Earliest Jomon (9250-5300 cal. bc) periods. World Archaeology 38(2):239-258.

Powledge, Tabitha M. and Mark Rose 1996 The Great DNA Hunt: Genetic archaeology zeroes in on the origins of modern humans. Archaeology 49(5):36-47.

Sakaguchi, Takashi 2007 Refuse patterning and behavioral analysis in a pinniped hunting camp in the Late Jomon Period: A case study in layer V at the Hamanaka 2 site, Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 26:28-46.

Watanabe, Hitoshi 1966 Ecology of the Jomon people: Stability of habitation and its biological and ethnohistorical implications. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Japan 74:21-32.

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