The question of prehistoric plant husbandry during the Jomon period in Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3919215 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Akira Matsui (0000-0003-3953-378X, Kyoto University), Masaaki Kanehara |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 259-273 |
| Publication date | 2006-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8243 • E-ISSN: 1470-1375 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00438240600708295 |
| OpenAlex | W2047027593 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 45 |
| References cited | 8 |
The Jomon culture of Japan (14,000–2500 bp) is characterized by exceptionally dense and sedentary populations of hunters, fishers and gatherers. Various arguments have been put forward in favour of Jomon agriculture; it is argued here that such arguments are persuasive only if they are based on actual remains of the plants themselves. Recent excavations of wetland sites such as Awazu and Torihama have produced a range of herbaceous plants that were most probably cultivated, and the arboriculture of chestnut and other tree species is also likely. However, many archaeologists think that this cultivation remained on a small scale throughout the Jomon period, and that it was integrated into the predominantly foraging economy rather than precipitating a change to a socioeconomic system based on agriculture. Only in the Yayoi period after c. 2500 bp did agriculture become economically predominant, probably as the result of major immigration of wet-rice-cultivating groups from the Korean peninsula or China
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Animal husbandry · Arboriculture · Archaeology · Biology · China · Domestication · Foraging · Geography · Peninsula · Period (music · Prehistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
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Foraging and farming as niche construction
A paleopathological approach to early human adaptation for wet-rice agriculture
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Environment, Ecology, and Interaction in Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East
Variability in dental caries prevalence between male and female foragers from the Late/Final Jomon period
Human responses to the Younger Dryas in Japan
The beginnings of rice and millet agriculture in prehistoric Japan
The trans-Eurasian crop exchange in prehistory
A comparative perspective on the ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ Neolithics of Eurasia
Did a cooling event in the middle to late Jomon periods induced change in the use of plant resources in Japan
Early Holocene rice cultivation integrated into marine adaptation in eastern China
Cultivation of Perilla frutescens (Lamiaceae) in prehistoric Korea
Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Plant Movements in Southern Kyushu, Japan
Why Didn’t Agriculture Develop in Japan? A Consideration of Jomon Ecological Style, Niche Construction, and the Origins of Domestication
The Archaeology of Pig Domestication in Eurasia
Is naked barley an eastern or a western crop? The combined evidence of archaeobotany and genetics
Long and attenuated
Late Holocene hemp (Cannabis sativa) retting in NE Hungary and the Holocene spread of hemp cultivation in eastern-central Europe
Cannabis in Eurasia
Pre-agricultural management of plant resources during the Jomon period in Japan—a sophisticated subsistence system on plant resources
Woodland management in the ancient Mahan statelets of Korea
Evaluation of carnivory in inland Jomon hunter–gatherers based on nitrogen isotopic compositions of individual amino acids in bone collagen
Isotopic evidence of breastfeeding and weaning practices in a hunter–gatherer population during the Late/Final Jomon period in eastern Japan
Obsidian resource use from the Jomon to Okhotsk period on Rebun Island
Population Fluctuation and the Adoption of Food Production in Prehistoric Korea
A Contribution to the Prehistory of Domesticated Bottle Gourds in Asia
Patterns of systemic stress during the agricultural transition in prehistoric Japan
Diaphyseal cross‐sectional geometry of the metatarsal bones in the Jomon population
Maximum likelihood estimate of life expectancy in the prehistoric Jomon
Variation in limb proportions between Jomon foragers and Yayoi agriculturalists from prehistoric Japan
Dental caries prevalence as evidence for agriculture and subsistence variation during the Yayoi period in prehistoric Japan
The characteristic mid‐shaft cross‐sectional shape of the ulna in Jomon hunter‐gatherers
Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change
Mortuary Variability and Status Differentiation in the Late Jomon of Hokkaido Based on the Analysis of Shuteibo (Communal Cemeteries)
Debating Jomon Social Complexity
Towards a Jōmon food database
The Jomon in early agriculture discourse
Nutritional deficiency and ecological stress in the Middle to Final western Jōmon
What did grinding stones grind? New light on Early Neolithic subsistence economy in the Middle Yellow River Valley, China
The Transition from Foraging to Farming in Prehistoric Korea
Advances in Understanding Early Agriculture in Japan
| Unique citing works | 45 |
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| Citations per year | 2,37 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 44 |