The Archaeology of Japan by Koji Mizoguchi
This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BCAD 700), in which the beginning of rice paddy-field farming ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient state. A must-read for those interested in Japanese and East Asian history and archaeology, state formation, and archaeological theory.
Koji Mizoguchi is Professor of Social Archaeology at the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan. He is the author of An Archaeological History of Japan: 30,000 BC to AD 700 (2002) and Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan (Cambridge, 2006). Dr Mizoguchi is regarded as a leading Japanese archaeologist, particularly in the study of the Yayoi period and mortuary archaeology. His many contributions to scholarly journals focus on the postcolonial archaeologies of East Asia with special emphasis on Japan, the relationship between modernisation and the disciplinisation of archaeology, and the study of the centralisation and hierarchisation of social relations by using formal network analysis methods.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521711883 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521711886 |
| Title | The Archaeology of Japan |
| Author | Koji Mizoguchi |
| Series | Cambridge World Archaeology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2018-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 391 |
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