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Jomon archaeology and the representation of Japanese origins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Junko Habu  and
Clare Fawcett
Junko Habu
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, 232 Kroeber Hall, University of California, Berkeley CA 94720-3710, USA. habu@qal.berkeley.edu
Clare Fawcett
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology & Anthropology, St. Francis Xavier University, P.O. Box 5000, Antigonish NS, Canada B2G 2W5 cfawcett@stfx.ca
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Extract

Since 1992, on-going excavations of the Early to Middle Jomon period Sannai Maruyama site (3500-2000 BC) have uncovered the large size and complexity of this prehistoric hunter-gatherer settlement.

Keywords

Jomon periodSannai Maruyama siteJapanese archaeologynationalismmass mediacultural tourism
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 281 , September 1999 , pp. 587 - 593
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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