ANT313H5 Lecture Notes - Stemware, Yoshinogari Site, Yamatai
Document Summary
Mumun house (seoul: mumun can give insights what it means to be japanese or korean. Detail of two areas at the daepyeong elite precincts: linked by interest groups, economic groups, etc; Burials and ideation: domon tombs, burial under these huge stones, representations carved on megalithic burial capstones. Japan: the yayoi: thought to be a evolution from the jomon; their difference in diet because of adoption of rice production, yayoi is a name of a neighbourhood near tokyo. Readings: descriptive for imamura and kanaseki paper. Agriculture and social complexity do not seem to be have developed in an indigenous context: definition of yayoi, conditions for beginning yayoi, chronology (big issue, pace of change. Yayoi was first and then it spreads to the rest of japan: technologies, economic basis, rice paddy significance, main crops, social organization, relationship to korean events, migration debate. Sw japan population density was really low, most are living in the north east (80%: yayoi.
