ANT313H5 Lecture Notes - Dendrogram, Lelang Commandery, Mumun Pottery Period
Document Summary
Lectures show the most important issues and while reading the textbook, you should concentrate on the similar issues as well. Give some background info before evaluating the question and answering. Ancestral ainu subsistence: a mixed economy, based on agriculture in the ishikari plain around sapparo (where all of our research was carried out; likely hokkaido wide, crops include nearly all important crops found in northeast asia. Human biology: research in 1970s showed ainu are biologically close to japanese, not europeans. 1990s research: ainu are similar to jomon and archaic asians, dual structure model of japanese populations, biological descendents of jomon. Current state of research: human osteology demonstration links to jomon (1988 2004, genetics confirms links with asian populations but not to han chinese, koreans and non-ainu japanese. Revised historical sequence: yayoi inserting themselves from the south and interacting with jomon.
