Debating Jomon Social Complexity

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dc.contributor.authorPearson, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2010-08-04T19:55:57Z
dc.date.available2010-08-04T19:55:57Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractPeople 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, low-fired pottery vessels that appear to have been used for feasting. In the Final period of the Jomon, grave goods appear in a substantial percentage of burials. Without reliance on agriculture, Jomon people appear to have achieved a high level of social complexity. However, the evidence from a few case studies concerning lacquer, elaborate pottery, and burials seems to show that while part-time specialization provided a wealth of rich material culture, sustained hierarchy was not achieved and there was an emphasis on exchange and solidarity, as in other middle-range societies. This article reviews new material and debates. KEYWORDS: Jomon, Japan, social complexity, lacquer, ceramics, burials, craft production, complex hunter-gatherers.
dc.identifier.citationPearson, R. 2007. Debating Jomon Social Complexity. Asian Perspectives 46 (2): 361-88.
dc.identifier.issn1535-8283 (E-ISSN)
dc.identifier.issn0066-8435 (Print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/17271
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i Press (Honolulu)
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVolume 46
dc.relation.ispartofseriesNumber 2
dc.subjectJomon
dc.subjectJapan
dc.subjectsocial complexity
dc.subjectlacquer
dc.subjectceramics
dc.subjectburials
dc.subjectcraft production
dc.subjectcomplex hunter-gatherers
dc.subject.lcshPrehistoric peoples--Asia--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshPrehistoric peoples--Oceania--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshAsia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshOceania--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.subject.lcshEast Asia--Antiquities--Periodicals.
dc.titleDebating Jomon Social Complexity
dc.typeArticle
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