Natural heritage in Jomon Japan
Diverse natural resources were used during the Jomon Period. Themes introduced here include subsistence, natural (wild) plant and animal resources, plant and animal domestication, the emergence of agriculture, and changes in the natural environment resulting from climate change and human activities.
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Botany, archaeobotany & ethnobotany
Imamura, Keiji (1996) Jomon and Yayoi: the transition to agriculture in Japanese prehistory. In D. R. Harris (ed.) The Origins and Spread of Agriculture and Pastoralism in Eurasia. UCL Press, London. pp. 442-464.
Matsui, Akira and Masaaki Kanehara (2006) The question of prehistoric plant husbandry during the Jomon Period in Japan. World Archaeology 38,259-273.
Nishida, Masaki (2002) The Meaning of Agriculture for Humans. In Yoshinori Yasuda ed. (2002) The Origins of Pottery and Agriculture. Roli Books and Lustre Press, New Delhi. pp. 231-239.
MacNeish, Richard S. (1992) The Origins of Agriculture and Settled Life. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman and London [reviews evidence for Japan].
Noshiro, S. and M. Suzuki (1993). Forest development during 6,300-3,000 yBP (early to Late Jomon Periods) at the Akayama Site, central Japan. Journal of Plant Research 106(1083): 259-277. (Wood Technol. Div., Forestry Forest Products Res. Inst., Tsukuba Norin, P.O. Box 16, Ibaraki 305, Japan )
Tsutsumi, Takashi (2002) Origins of Pottery and Human Strategies for Adaptation During the Termination of the Last-glacial Period in the Japanese Archipelago. In Yoshinori Yasuda ed. (2002) The Origins of Pottery and Agriculture. Roli Books and Lustre Press, New Delhi. pp. 241-262.
Zoology, archaeozoology & ethnozoology
Akazawa, Takeru (1980) Fishing adaptation of prehistoric hunter-gatherers at the Nittano site, Japan. Journal of Archaeological Science 7:325-344.
Hiraguchi, T. (1999) Dolphin Hunting/Fishing? of the Jomon Period (Internet, 30.4.03) (includes bibliography).
Lee, J. H., I. D. Lee, et al. (1990) Studies on the utilization of browse by the sika deer (Cervus nippon): I. Food habits of the sika deer. Korean Journal Of Animal Sciences 32(2): 100-108.
Matsui, Akira (1996a) Postglacial hunter-gatherers in the Japanese Archipelago: maritime adaptations. In A. Fischer (ed.) Man and Sea in the Mesolithic: Coastal Settlement above and below Present Sea Level, Oxford: Oxbow Books, pp. 327-334.
Matsui, Akira (1996b) Archaeological investigations of anadromous salmanoid fishing in Japan. World Archaeology 27, 444-460.
Miyao, T. and Y. Nishizawa (1977) [Abnormal dentition in the hares, raccoon dogs and martens excavated from Tochihara remains (early Jomon era), Nagano Pref.] Nippon-honyurui-zakki [Japanese Mammal Note] 4: 124-127.
