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The Archaeology of Japan: From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State (Cambridge World Archaeology) by Koji Mizoguchi; Kaoji Mizoguchi is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC–AD 700), in which the introduction of rice paddy-field farming from the Korean peninsula ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient Japanese state. The author traces the historical trajectory of the Yayoi and Kofun periods by employing cutting-edge sociological, anthropological and archaeological theories and methods. The book reveals a fascinating process through which sophisticated hunter-gatherer communities in an archipelago on the eastern fringe of the Eurasian continent were transformed materially and symbolically into a state.

Author

Koji Mizoguchi; Kaoji Mizoguchi

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461950387

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities