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Globalizing the Prehistory of Japan - Language, genes and civilisation (Hardcover, New)
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Globalizing the Prehistory of Japan - Language, genes and civilisation (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia
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This iconoclastic work on the prehistory of Japan and of South East
Asia challenges entrenched views on the origins of Japanese society
and identity. The social changes that took place in Japan in the
time-period when the Jomon culture was replaced by the Yayoi
culture were of exceptional magnitude, going far beyond those of
the so-called Neolithic Revolution in other parts of the world.
They included not only a new way of life based on wet-rice
agriculture but also the introduction of metalworking in both
bronze and iron, and furthermore a new architecture functionally
and ritually linked to rice cultivation, a new religion, and a
hierarchical society characterized by a belief in the divinity of
the ruler. Because of its immense and enduring impact the Yayoi
period has generally been seen as the very foundation of Japanese
civilization and identity. In contrast to the common assumption
that all the Yayoi innovations came from China and Korea, this work
combines exciting new scientific evidence from such different
fields as rice genetics, DNA and historical linguistics to show
that the major elements of Yayoi civilization actually came, not
from the north, but from the south.
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