M Hudson
Biographic Data
| ID | 19169 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Hudson |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hudson |
| SIGNATURE | HUDSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9483-9303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Maritime networks as a vector for early farming/language dispersals
Maritime networks have been proposed as a mechanism for early agricultural and, by extension, language dispersals in several coastal and island regions. In Island Southeast Asia, such networks have sometimes been discussed as an alternative to the farming/language dispersal hypothesis. However, the relationships between Neolithic maritime networks and maritime economies are poorly known. Here, we summarise published information for three regions …
Environmental archaeology and eco-nativist discourse in modern Japan
Claims that Japanese society has lived in “harmony” with Nature and can therefore provide lessons for global sustainability have a long history. While such “eco-nativist” ideas have been the subject of an extensive critical literature, here we consider three topics that have so far escaped in-depth attention. First, we trace how environmental archaeology became integrated into this approach from the 1980s, examining how palynologist Yoshinori Yas…
A Database of Pictorial Evidence of Aquatic Animals and Fishing Practices in Prehistoric Japan
This database compiles representations of aquatic animals and fishing scenes from prehistoric and protohistoric Japan, spanning the Jōmon (ca. 14,500– 1000 BCE), Yayoi (1000 BCE–250 CE) and Kofun (250–710 CE) periods, as well as the Epi-Jōmon (340 BCE–CE 700), Satsumon (600–1200 CE) and Okhotsk periods (500–1000 CE) in Hokkaido. The corpus includes 120 representations: 108 depictions of aquatic animals and 12 of fishing activities. These images a…
A deep genealogy of Japanese green nationalism from the long 19th century to the present
Employing the term “green nationalism” in the broad sense of nationalist ideologies that concern themselves with the natural environment, we trace a genealogy of green nationalist thought in Japan back to the start of the long 19 th century. The changing contours of this discourse are mapped through five representative writers: Moto'ori Norinaga (1730–1801), Shigetaka Shiga (1863–1927). Testurō Watsuji (1889–1960), Takeshi Umehara (1925–2019) and…
Early Modern mercury production using ceramic vessels at Idrija, Slovenia
Preliminary results from the first archaeological excavations of Early Modern mercury-production sites at Idrija, Slovenia, confirm the use of ceramic vessels for mercury roasting following the techniques described in Agricola’s De re metallica , which was published in 1556
Incorporating patient and public involvement (PPI) at the design stage of an early career physiotherapy researcher's funding application
Patient and public involvement (PPI) in health and social care research is a requirement of nationally peer reviewed funders and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), including research grant applications. The United Kingdom Standards for Public Involvement (UKSPI) in research describes six standards, with associated reflective questions for researchers and organisations to improve PPI throughout the life cycle of their research. Thi…
Working for Health in the Anthropocene
By the end of the nineteenth century, the view of labour as control of the environment for human benefit was being re-evaluated. In the United States, the conservation movement of the Progressive era (1890–1920) brought new attention to the problem of the ‘wise use’ of resources. Progressive social movements also developed a concern with holistic health and social conditions in rapidly industrialising cities. This paper argues that the formation …
Dispersal, Adoption, Rejection
The study of historic ecological exchange is a multidisciplinary pursuit between paleoecology, history, and archaeology. This special collection and introduction explore ecological exchange between approximately 1500 and 1700 CE in the West Pacific, specifically in the Japanese and Philippine Archipelagos as well as littoral China. Rather than focusing exclusively on the introduction of exotic flora and fauna, the introduction and collection emph…
Bone-artefact production in late Neolithic central China
As an important component of prehistoric subsistence, an understanding of bone-working is essential for interpreting the evolution of early complex societies, yet worked bones are rarely systematically collected in China. Here, the authors apply multiple analytical methods to worked bones from the Longshan site of Pingliangtai, in central China, showing that Neolithic bone-working in this area, with cervid as the main raw material, was mature but…
Bronze Fish
The Bronze Age was a time of pivotal economic change when new long-distance trading networks became associated with a macro-regional division of labour and decentralised political complexity. These developments occurred against the background of a shifting mosaic of subsistence patterns, which included the east-west exchange of crops across Eurasia and (in some areas) greater use of secondary products. As Bronze Age economies became more speciali…
Henceforth fishermen and hunters are to be restrained
Domestic animal usage remains a key problem in understanding Japan’s premodern economy. Assumptions that religious and other cultural proscriptions limited the use of domesticated animals, and the consumption of meat in particular, from Late Antiquity until Westernisation in the nineteenth century remain widespread. However, the zooarchaeological record from historic Japan is patchy and the scholarly literature often uncritically reproduces state…
Global processes of anthropogenesis characterise the early Anthropocene in the Japanese Islands
Although many scholars date the onset of the Anthropocene to the Industrial Revolution or the post-1945 ‘Great Acceleration’, there is growing interest in understanding earlier human impacts on the earth system. Research on the ‘Palaeoanthropocene’ has investigated the role of fire, agriculture, trade, urbanisation and other anthropogenic impacts. While there is increasing consensus that such impacts were more important than previously realised, …
Addendum to
Demography, trade and state power
Hunter–gatherer occupations of small islands are rare in world prehistory and it is widely accepted that island settlement is facilitated by agriculture. The Ryukyu Islands contradict that understanding on two counts: not only did they have a long history of hunter–gatherer settlement, but they also have a very late date for the onset of agriculture, which only reached the archipelago between the eighth and thirteenth centuries AD. Here, we combi…
The Archipelago Archaeological Isotope Database for the Japanese Islands
ARCHIPELAGO is an archaeological and historical database of land and sea food resources utilised in the Japanese Islands. Here we present a dataset of human bone and hair carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes measurements from Japanese archaeological sites covering the time span from the Upper Palaeolithic to the mid-nineteenth century. Reflecting the results of over 30 years of research, the dataset contains 1476 entries and covers the entire Japa…
Conjuring Up Prehistory
In the distance is Yoshinogari, a large Yayoi-period town with reconstructed watchtowers and other defensive features
Year-old shark attack victim from Tsukumo shell-mound, Okayama, Japan
Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change
From northern China, millet agriculture spread to Korea and the Maritime Russian Far East by 3500–2700 BC. While the expansion of agricultural societies across the Sea of Japan did not occur until around 900 BC, the intervening period saw major transformations in the Japanese archipelago. The cultural florescence of Middle Jōmon central Honshu underwent a collapse and reorganisation into more decentralised settlements. Mobility increased as Late …
Language dispersals and the “Secondary Peoples’ Revolution”
Population growth and demic diffusion help explain the early Neolithic expansions of agriculture and Transeurasian languages in Northeast Asia. By the Bronze Age, alluvial agrarian states had come to possess considerable political and economic dominance over their subjects in the civilizational centers of Eurasia. At the same time, however, Bronze Age economies offered new opportunities for trade and secondary expansion into areas outside state c…
Ancient genomes from northern China suggest links between subsistence changes and human migration
Northern China harbored the world’s earliest complex societies based on millet farming, in two major centers in the Yellow (YR) and West Liao (WLR) River basins. Until now, their genetic histories have remained largely unknown. Here we present 55 ancient genomes dating to 7500-1700 BP from the YR, WLR, and Amur River (AR) regions. Contrary to the genetic stability in the AR, the YR and WLR genetic profiles substantially changed over time. The YR …
Millet agriculture dispersed from Northeast China to the Russian Far East
Broomcorn and foxtail millets were being cultivated in the West Liao River basin in Northeast China by at least the sixth millennium BCE. However, when and how millet agriculture spread from there to the north and east remains poorly understood. Here, we trace the dispersal of millet agriculture from Northeast China to the Russian Far East and weigh demic against cultural diffusion as mechanisms for that dispersal. We compare two routes for the s…
We are what we (think we) eat
Archaeolinguistic evidence for the farming/language dispersal of Koreanic
Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology of textile production
Foragers as Fetish in Modern Japan
The A. examines the relationship between the hunter-gatherers of the Japanese Islands and discourses about Japanese modernity and national identity. Three main points are made: 1) even as Japan has become ultra-modern, it has successfully incorporated prehistoric hunter-gatherers within its stories of national history and identity; 2) this Japanization of prehistoric hunter-gatherers has been based on a fetish-like desire for an authentic Japanes…
Prospects and challenges for an archaeology of global climate change
Archaeology has a long history of research in reconstructing past environments and in attempting to understand the interactions between climate and human societies. So far, however, there has been little attempt by archaeologists to employ this knowledge in the debate over current global climate change. This paper provides a broad overview of the relevance of archaeology to the problem of global climate change, yet also attempts to consider some …
Dental perspectives on the population history of Southeast Asia
This article uses metric and nonmetric dental data to test the "two-layer" or immigration hypothesis whereby Southeast Asia was initially occupied by an "Australo-Melanesian" population that later underwent substantial genetic admixture with East Asian immigrants associated with the spread of agriculture from the Neolithic period onwards. We examined teeth from 4,002 individuals comprising 42 prehistoric and historic samples from East Asia, South…
Placing Asia in the Anthropocene
In the nineteenth century, the Mekong, Red, and Chao Phraya river deltas in Southeast Asia underwent a massive expansion in agricultural settlement and engineering (Dao and Molle 2000). Contending with crocodiles and herds of wild elephants in addition to more prosaic insect and bird pests (Terwiel 1989), settlers struggled successfully to make these deltas highly productive centers of rice and other agriculture. Such struggles, which were until …
The evolving Japanese
Dark artifacts
Pots not People
This article considers the relationship between identity politics and archaeological interpretations of ethnicity in postwar Japan. Although race and ethnicity were important concepts in early Japanese archaeology, from the 1930s a new interpretive paradigm based on archaeological cultures began to dominate the discipline. After the end of the Second World War, Japanese archaeologists became increasingly concerned with sociopolitical issues relat…
Tracing population movements in ancient East Asia through the linguistics and archaeology of textile production
An extraordinary case in human history
The islands of the Central Ryukyus (Amami and Okinawa archipelagos), Japan, were continuously occupied by hunter-gatherers for several thousand years during the Holocene. This occupation would seem to represent a unique example of island settlement by hunter-gatherers. Homo sapiens had expanded into all continents except Antarctica by 10,000 BP, demonstrating high adaptability to various environments, but few islands had been settled by that time…
Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change
From northern China, millet agriculture spread to Korea and the Maritime Russian Far East by 3500–2700 BC. While the expansion of agricultural societies across the Sea of Japan did not occur until around 900 BC, the intervening period saw major transformations in the Japanese archipelago. The cultural florescence of Middle Jōmon central Honshu underwent a collapse and reorganisation into more decentralised settlements. Mobility increased as Late …
Embodying Okhotsk Ethnicity
This article describes human skeletal remains from the Aonae Dune site, Okushiri Island, Hokkaido, Japan. Skeletal remains of an adult female and two subadults were excavated in 2002. Although these remains derived from Okhotsk culture contexts, analyses of cranial and tooth crown measurements demonstrated that Aonae Dune No. 1 (the adult female), Aonae Dune No. 2 (a child of about 11 years), and Aonae Dune No. 3 (a child of about 6 years) are mo…
Archaeology of the Anthropocene
What role will archaeology play in the Anthropocene – the proposed new geological epoch marked by human impact on Earth systems? That is the question discussed by thirteen archaeologists and other scholars from five continents in this thought-provoking forum. Their responses are diverse and wide-ranging. While Edward Harris looks to archaeological stratigraphy for a material paradigm of the Anthropocene, Alice Gorman explores the extent of human …
Archaeolinguistic evidence for the farming/language dispersal of Koreanic
Ruins of Identity
Henceforth fishermen and hunters are to be restrained
Domestic animal usage remains a key problem in understanding Japan’s premodern economy. Assumptions that religious and other cultural proscriptions limited the use of domesticated animals, and the consumption of meat in particular, from Late Antiquity until Westernisation in the nineteenth century remain widespread. However, the zooarchaeological record from historic Japan is patchy and the scholarly literature often uncritically reproduces state…
Year-old shark attack victim from Tsukumo shell-mound, Okayama, Japan
Millet agriculture dispersed from Northeast China to the Russian Far East
Broomcorn and foxtail millets were being cultivated in the West Liao River basin in Northeast China by at least the sixth millennium BCE. However, when and how millet agriculture spread from there to the north and east remains poorly understood. Here, we trace the dispersal of millet agriculture from Northeast China to the Russian Far East and weigh demic against cultural diffusion as mechanisms for that dispersal. We compare two routes for the s…
Occupation Mediates Ecosystem Services with Human Well-Being
The 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment linked ecosystem services, the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, directly with four constituents of human well-being: security, basic material for good life, health, and freedom of choice and action. No explicit model of the role of human activity in the transformation of ecosystem services into well-being was, however, developed by the Assessment and the connective relations between ecosystem servic…
The South Tyrol as Occupationscape
This article attempts the beginnings of an occupational theory of landscape. We propose the concept of occupationscape, defined as landscapes formed and performed through histories of occupational behavior. This concept is used to examine the relationships between occupation, landscape and ethnicity in the South Tyrol border region of northern Italy. After the South Tyrol was ceded to Italy following the First World War, occupations in this regio…
Sundadonty” and the population history of Southeast Asia
Pottery production on Rishiri Island, Japan
Energy‐dispersive X‐ray fluorescence (EDXRF) was used to determine the minor and trace element composition of 54 sherds of pottery dating from the Final Jomon to Okhotsk periods. The majority of the sherds came from Rishiri Island, Japan. Principal component (PC) scores were calculated using the log transformed concentration values, and groups were sought in the PC scores using kernel density estimates (KDEs). Two main groups were found in the da…
Geologic map of the Jasper Quadrangle, Newton and Boone counties, Arkansas
This digital geologic map compilation presents new polygon (i.e., geologic map unit contacts), line (i.e., fault, fold axis, and structure contour), and point (i.e., structural attitude, contact elevations) vector data for the Jasper 7 1/2' quadrangle in northern Arkansas. The map database, which is at 1:24,000-scale resolution, provides geologic coverage of an area of current hydrogeologic, tectonic, and stratigraphic interest. The Jasper quadra…
Religion and ethnicity in Chinese Islam
(1987). Religion and ethnicity in Chinese Islam. Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Journal: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 156-160
Religion and ethnicity in Chinese Islam
(1987). Religion and ethnicity in Chinese Islam. Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs. Journal: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 156-160
Rice, bronze, and chieftains
T he Yayoi was the period in w hich agriculture came to form the basis of society in a laree part of the Japanese archipelago. It is often dated from 300 bc to ad 300 th o u e h in parts of western Ja p a n wet rice farming began a century or more earlier. The end of the Yayoi was m arked by the appearance in the third century of kofun, standardized keyhole-shaped tomb mounds. Although there is disagreement over both the exact chronology of this …
Archaeology as Japanology
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Ruins of Identity
Ruins of Identity
Geologic map of the Jasper Quadrangle, Newton and Boone counties, Arkansas
This digital geologic map compilation presents new polygon (i.e., geologic map unit contacts), line (i.e., fault, fold axis, and structure contour), and point (i.e., structural attitude, contact elevations) vector data for the Jasper 7 1/2' quadrangle in northern Arkansas. The map database, which is at 1:24,000-scale resolution, provides geologic coverage of an area of current hydrogeologic, tectonic, and stratigraphic interest. The Jasper quadra…
Ruins of Identity
Pottery production on Rishiri Island, Japan
Energy‐dispersive X‐ray fluorescence (EDXRF) was used to determine the minor and trace element composition of 54 sherds of pottery dating from the Final Jomon to Okhotsk periods. The majority of the sherds came from Rishiri Island, Japan. Principal component (PC) scores were calculated using the log transformed concentration values, and groups were sought in the PC scores using kernel density estimates (KDEs). Two main groups were found in the da…
The perverse realities of change
For the people, by the people
From at least 1976 until his exposure by the media in November 2000, amateur archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura planted artifacts at over 180 Paleolithic ‘sites’ in Miyagi Prefecture and other parts of eastern Japan. As a result of this hoax, the existence of an Early Paleolithic stretching back more than half a million years became widely accepted in Japan. Fujimura perpetrated one of the biggest archaeological hoaxes of the 20th century and his ac…
Dental perspectives on the population history of Southeast Asia
This article uses metric and nonmetric dental data to test the "two-layer" or immigration hypothesis whereby Southeast Asia was initially occupied by an "Australo-Melanesian" population that later underwent substantial genetic admixture with East Asian immigrants associated with the spread of agriculture from the Neolithic period onwards. We examined teeth from 4,002 individuals comprising 42 prehistoric and historic samples from East Asia, South…
Sundadonty” and the population history of Southeast Asia
Embodying Okhotsk Ethnicity
This article describes human skeletal remains from the Aonae Dune site, Okushiri Island, Hokkaido, Japan. Skeletal remains of an adult female and two subadults were excavated in 2002. Although these remains derived from Okhotsk culture contexts, analyses of cranial and tooth crown measurements demonstrated that Aonae Dune No. 1 (the adult female), Aonae Dune No. 2 (a child of about 11 years), and Aonae Dune No. 3 (a child of about 6 years) are mo…
Pots not People
This article considers the relationship between identity politics and archaeological interpretations of ethnicity in postwar Japan. Although race and ethnicity were important concepts in early Japanese archaeology, from the 1930s a new interpretive paradigm based on archaeological cultures began to dominate the discipline. After the end of the Second World War, Japanese archaeologists became increasingly concerned with sociopolitical issues relat…
Views of Japanese Ethnic Identity Amongst Undergraduates in Hokkaido
Many studies of postwar Japan have emphasized that an ideology of ethnic homogeneity has been an important element in Japanese society since 1945. Oguma and others have argued that this ideology contrasts with the view of a multi-ethnic empire that was prevalent prior to 1945. It has been widely proposed, we believe correctly, that this ideology of ethnic homogeneity -the idea of the tan'itsu minzoku -has been used by political and business elite…
Waist-to-hip ratios of Jomon figurines
The authors show that the Jomon clay figurines made by hunter-gatherers use imagery that emphasises a narrow waist and full hips, showing that a female construct was part of the symbolism of these possibly shamanistic objects. In creating these figurines, prehistoric people were no doubt turning a recognition of health and fertility into more cultural icons. Admirers of the female form will be interested to learn that preference for the fuller, c…
Possible steatopygia in prehistoric central Japan
It is proposed that the so-called ‘protruding buttock’ figurines from Middle Jomon central Japan may be representations of steatopygia. The distribution of these figurines is associated with archaeological evidence for high population densities and possible intensive use of wild yams (Dioscorea japonica). Given the low fat content of these yams, it is suggested that nutritional stress in the diet of Middle Jomon hunter-gatherers of the Chubu high…
Morphometric Features of Femurs in the Okhotsk People
北海道北部と東部のオホーツク文化期人の大腿骨計測値について,地域差を明らかにするとともに,同じ北海道内の縄文・続縄文人やアイヌとの比較もおこない,オホーツク人の集団的特性も明らかにした。また判別分析を用いることにより,これらの北海道内の集団がどの程度の正答率で帰属集団を判別できるかも検証した。モヨロ貝塚をはじめとする道東のオホーツク人については,大腿骨の全長や骨体上部径および頭頚部の大きさなどが顕著に異なり,道東オホーツク人はこれらに関する多くの項目で有意に大きいことが示された。一方,大岬や浜中遺跡などからなる道北オホーツク人は,全長や骨体径において道東オホーツク人よりも小さく,縄文・続縄文人やアイヌとは大きな差はみいだされなかった。オホーツク人の大腿骨の形態におけるこうした顕著な地域差は,従来の頭蓋形態の比較ではみられなかったものである。またこれら4集団の男性の大腿骨計測値を用いて判別分析をおこなったところ,道北,道東のいずれのオホーツク人も他の2集団とは90%以上の正答率で判別が可能…
The South Tyrol as Occupationscape
This article attempts the beginnings of an occupational theory of landscape. We propose the concept of occupationscape, defined as landscapes formed and performed through histories of occupational behavior. This concept is used to examine the relationships between occupation, landscape and ethnicity in the South Tyrol border region of northern Italy. After the South Tyrol was ceded to Italy following the First World War, occupations in this regio…
Austronesian’ and ‘Jōmon’ identities in the Neolithic of the Ryukyu Islands
This paper examines Neolithic cultural identities in the Ryukyu Islands of southwest Japan. It is argued that there were two different identities in this archipelago: a ‘Jōmon’ identity in the northern and central Ryukyus and an ‘Austronesian’ identity in the southern Ryukyus. These identities were constructed despite broad similarities in subsistence adaptation in both cultural zones
Occupation Mediates Ecosystem Services with Human Well-Being
The 2005 Millennium Ecosystem Assessment linked ecosystem services, the benefits people obtain from ecosystems, directly with four constituents of human well-being: security, basic material for good life, health, and freedom of choice and action. No explicit model of the role of human activity in the transformation of ecosystem services into well-being was, however, developed by the Assessment and the connective relations between ecosystem servic…
Prospects and challenges for an archaeology of global climate change
Archaeology has a long history of research in reconstructing past environments and in attempting to understand the interactions between climate and human societies. So far, however, there has been little attempt by archaeologists to employ this knowledge in the debate over current global climate change. This paper provides a broad overview of the relevance of archaeology to the problem of global climate change, yet also attempts to consider some …
Navigating disciplinary challenges to global sustainability science
Current threats posed by anthropogenic climate change, biodiversity loss, the degradation of ecosystem services, and other related impacts of human activity require a concerted res- ponse through a global science of sustainability. The threats faced by humanity are so extensive that all academic disciplines are affected in some way and all have a role to play in developing potential responses. Given that few academic disciplines have traditionall…
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