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This volume brings together for the first time a significant body
of Professor Barnes' scholarly writing on early Korean state
formation, integrated so that successive topics form a coherent
overview of the problems and solutions in peninsular state
formation.
This volume brings together for the first time a significant body
of Professor Barnes' scholarly writing on Japanese early state
formation, brought together so that successive topics form a
coherent overview of the problems and solutions of ancient Japan.
The writings are, in some cases, the only studies of these topics
available in English and they differ from the majority of other
articles on the subject in being anthropological rather than
cultural or historical in nature.
This volume brings together for the first time a significant body
of Professor Barnes' scholarly writing on Japanese early state
formation, brought together so that successive topics form a
coherent overview of the problems and solutions of ancient Japan.
The writings are, in some cases, the only studies of these topics
available in English and they differ from the majority of other
articles on the subject in being anthropological rather than
cultural or historical in nature.
Contents: Emerging Elites I: perspectives on state formation in Korea Preface Introduction 1. State formation in the southern Korean peninsula: a critical review 2. Early Korean states: a review of historical interpretation 3. The development of stoneware technology in southern Korea 4. A technological study of earthenware and stoneware from southern Korea 5. Discoveries of iron armour on the Korean peninsula 6. Walled sites in the Three Kingdoms settlement patterns 7. The emergence and expansion of Silla as seen archeologically 8. Korean capital cities Appendix I. Western language works on Korean state formation (ref: Ch. 2)
Nara is located in the center of what is known today as the Kinai
region of Japan. The ancient name for the region was the Go-Kinai
("five-within the royal domain"), referring to the five provinces
of which it was composed: Settsu, Kawachi, Izumi, Yamato and
Yamashiro. The name Yamato, presented above variously as a
provincial unit (corresponding to the present-day Nara Prefecture),
or geographical unit (the Nara Basin only), is also sometimes
expanded and applied on a regional scale to mean the Kinai region.
This is particularly true in scholarship dealing with the fifth and
sixth centuries when Yamato was in ascendance. Therefore, the Nara
Basin and its archeology are the keys to unlocking the mysteries of
the emergence of Japanese civilization and the early state in
Japan. These mysteries are entailed in the earliest recorded
history of Japan—references to Japanese island "countries" and
"queens" in the Chinese dynastic histories of the third to fifth
centuries A.D., and references to "kings" and "emperors" in two
late fifth- to early sixth-century sword inscriptions and in the
extant chronicles of Japan compiled in the early eighth century.
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