Browsing Center for Southeast Asian Studies by Subject "Yaeyama Islands"

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Edge-Ground and Waisted Axes in the Western Pacific Islands: Implications for an Example from the Yaeyama Islands, Southernmost Japan

Anderson, Atholl; Summerhayes, Glenn (University of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu), 2008)

A flaked, ground, and waisted axe, discovered on Iriomote Island in the Yaeyama group, southernmost Japan, appears to be a unique find in Japanese prehistory. Its resemblance to waisted, edge-ground axes which, in Australia, ...