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This book addresses a void in the synthetic archaeological
knowledge of the North Pacific by enabling a more informed
evaluation of North Pacific Rim seafaring hypotheses. It answers
questions about intra- and inter-regional relationships in the
evolution of maritime adaptations throughout the region. The
authors collectively address evidence of aquatic activities during
the Late Pleistocene and Holocene in the Sea of Japan, Sea of
Okhotsk and adjacent coastal areas of Korea, Japan, Sakhalin
Island, the Kurile Islands and the Russian Far East with syntheses
placing the region into a larger North Pacific context. This
examination provides essential data on human modes of terrestrial
adaptation and the transition to maritime lifeways over the last
40,000 years. It also provides a much-needed foundation to better
understand the peopling of the New World 17,000 years ago, either
by a pedestrian transit or through the use of watercraft, or more
likely a combination of the two. As one of the first publications
on the prehistory of the maritime region of Northeast Asia provided
in English, with contributions by leading Korean, Japanese,
Russian, Canadian, European and US-based researchers of the region,
this volume presents a means for archaeologists to assess proposed
hypotheses pertaining to late Pleistocene and Holocene seafaring
around the North Pacific Rim. It is an essential read for
specialists in history, archaeology, behavioural ecology and
maritime evolution.
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