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46:2 Table of Contents - Asian Perspectives

(University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2007)
The Contingencies of State Formation in Eastern Inner Asia

Rogers, J Daniel (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2007)

Three key themes consistently play a role in the study of early state formation in eastern Inner Asia. First, scholars have frequently argued that China exerted a disproportionately strong influence on steppe polities, ...
Debating Jomon Social Complexity

Pearson, Richard (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2007)

People of the Jomon period (currently dated from about 14,000 B.C. to the first millennium B.C.) began to make lacquer ornaments as early as 7000 B.C. and by the fourth millennium B.C. were creating elaborately decorated, ...
Editorial

Bekken, Deborah; Junker, Laura Lee; Underhill, Anne (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2007)
Geological Sourcing of Volcanic Stone Adzes from Neolithic Sites in Southeast China

Rolett, Barry V; Guo, Zhengfu; Jiao, Tianlong (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2007)

This study uses XRF (X-ray fluorescence) and ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry) analyses to determine the chemical composition of raw material used in stone tool production. The goal is to identify where ...
Inter- and Intraregional Variation in the Austronesian Painting Tradition: A View from East Timor

O'Connor, Sue; Oliveira, Nuno Vasco (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2007)

This article reports on the discovery of a new rock art site from East Timor that is located inland on the southern flanks of the central mountainous spine of the island. One particular painted motif, a socketed axe with ...
Korean Contributions to Agriculture, Technology, and State Formation in Japan: Archaeology and History of an Epochal Thousand Years, 400 B.C. - A.D. 600

Rhee, Song-Nai; Aikens, C Melvin; Choi, Sung-Rak; Ro, Hyuk-Jin (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2007)

This is a study of Korean contributions to cultural changes in ancient Japan as it developed agriculture and increasing social complexity and finally formed the Yamato state over the course of a thousand years, between 400 ...
New Evidence for Southeast Asian Pleistocene Foraging Economies: Faunal Remains from the Early Levels of Lang Rongrien Rockshelter, Krabi, Thailand

Mudar, Karen M; Anderson, Douglas (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2007)

This study reports on analysis of a sample of animal bones from Pleistocene levels of Lang Rongrien Rockshelter, Thailand. Analysis identified small proportions of marine and/or freshwater fish bone, freshwater/terrestrial ...
Trade Ceramics from the Goto Islands (Japan), Circa Sixteenth to Early Seventeenth Century: The Yamami Underwater Site (Ojika) and Related Issues

Seyock, Barbara (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2007)

Underwater archaeology is still a new development in Japan, and to date only a few sites have experienced significant investigation. One of them is the recently surveyed Yamami underwater site on the Got6 Islands, which ...