Recommended reading
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Akazawa, Takeru, and C. Melvin Aikens, eds. (1986). Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers in Japan - New Research Methods. Bulletin No. 27. Tokyo: The University Museum, The University of Tokyo.
Barnes, Gina L. (1993) China, Korea and Japan: The Rise of Civilization in East Asia. Thames and Hudson Ltd, London.
Barnett, W. and J. Hoopes eds. (1995) The Emergence of Pottery: Technology and Innovation in Ancient Societies. Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
Crawford, Gary (1996) "Jomon Tradition" In B. F. Fagan et al. (eds) The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Oxford University Press, New York and Oxford, pp. 365 - 367.
Egami, Namio (1973) The Beginnings of Japanese Art. (translated by John Bester) Weatherhill, New York.
Habu, Junko and Clare Fawcett (1999) "Jomon Archaeology and the Representation of Japanese Origins" Antiquity 72:587-594
Habu, Junko and Mark. E. Hall (1999) "Jomon Pottery Production in Central Japan" Asian Perspectives 38:90-110
Hudson, Mark J. (1999) Ruins of identity: ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. University of Hawai'i Press, [Honolulu].
Imamura, Keiji (1996) Prehistoric Japan: New perspectives on insular East Asia. UCL Press, London.
Kaner, Simon (1996) "Beyond ethnicity and emergence in Japanese archaeology" In D. Denoon, M. Hudson, G. McCormack and T. Morris-Suzuki, eds., Multicultural Japan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (2nd Ed. 2001).
Kenrick, Douglas Moore (1996) Jomon of Japan: The World's Oldest Pottery. Kegan Paul, London and New York.
Kidder Jr., J. Edward (1968) Prehistoric Japanese Arts: Jomon Pottery. Kodansha International, Tokyo.
Koyama, Shuzo (1978) Jomon Subsistence and Population. Senri Ethnological Studies, Vol. 2. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.
Koyama, Shuzo, and David Hurst Thomas, eds. (1981). The Affluent Foragers: Pacific Coasts East and West. Senri Ethnological Studies, Vol. 9. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka.
Mizoguchi, Koji (2002) An Archaeological History of Japan, 30,000 B.C. to A.D. 700. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia (reviewed by Anthony Sinclair, for the Prehistoric Society, UK).
Pearson, Richard J. (1992) Ancient Japan. George Braziller and the Smithsonian, New York and Washington, DC.
Shinoda, Ken-ichi and Satoru Kanai (1999) Intracemetery genetic analysis at the Nakazuma Jomon site in Japan by mitochondrial DNA sequencing. Anthropological Science 107, 129-140.
Weeder, Erica, ed. (1990) The Rise of a Great Tradition: Japanese Archaeological Ceramics from the Jomon through Heian Periods (10.500 BC - AD 1185). Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan and Japan Society, New York.
Yasuda, Yoshinori, ed. (2002) The Origins of Pottery and Agriculture. Roli Books and Lustre Press, New Delhi.