prehistoric japan - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library

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Children of the Yellow Earth; Studies in Prehistoric China

Book by J. Gunnar Andersson, E. Classen; Macmillan, 1934

Subjects:

China--Antiquities, Excavations (Archaeology)--China, Prehistoric Peoples--China

Collections: History, Entire Library

...111. The site of prehistoric discoveries at the eastern...Easy birth" shell used in Japan natural size 305...topographical maps for my work on the prehistoric sites of Northern China...Shao age and of other later prehistoric finds. But his most eminent...
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Sacred Texts and Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan

Book by William Wayne Farris; University of Hawaii Press, 1998

Subjects:

Inscriptions, Japanese, Japan--Antiquities, Japan--Capital And Capitol--History, Japan--History--To 794, Japan--Relations--Korea, Korea--Relations--Japan, Wooden Tablets--Japan--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...archaeology to Japan in 1877 when he...excavation at a prehistoric shell mound near...story of ancient Japan may be divided...into three parts: prehistoric, protohistoric...historic. 12 Prehistoric Japan, for which no...
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The Catalpa Bow: A Study in Shamanistic Practices in Japan

Book by Carmen Blacker; Japan Library, 1999

Subjects:

Shamanism--Japan

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This study of shamanistic practices in contemporary Japan examines the shamanic figures surviving in Japan today, their initiatory dreams, ascetic practices, and the supernatural beings with whom they communicate.
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An Introduction to the History of Japan

Book by Katsuro Hara; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1920

Subjects:

Japan--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...had as remains of prehistoric Japan such valuable historic...taken place in Japan also. Summing...think that the prehistoric immigrants into...that southern Japan, especially the...inhabited in the prehistoric age by the Ainu...
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Japan: A Short Cultural History

Book by G. B. Sansom; Stanford University Press, 1978

Subjects:

Japan--Civilization, Japan--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...furnishing a picture of prehistoric culture in Japan, does not throw any direct...Dr. N. G. Munro , in Prehistoric Japan , who says of the early...outline, is the story of prehistoric Japan as told by archaeological...

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Introductory Routes of Rice to Japan: An Examination of the Southern Route Hypothesis

Journal article by Hiroto Takamiya; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 40, 2001

Subjects:

Agricultural geography--Research, Agriculture, Prehistoric, Japan--History, Okinawa Island--History, Plant remains (Archaeology)--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...most regions of Japan accepted wet-rice...after such contact, prehistoric Okinawan populations...CHRONOLOGY OF PREHISTORIC OKINAWA (THE CENTRAL...MAINLAND JAPAN...Culture change in prehistoric Japan: Receptivity to...
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Biological Responses to Change in Prehistoric Viet Nam

Journal article by Marc Oxenham; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 45, 2006

Subjects:

Prehistoric peoples--Demographic aspects, Prehistoric peoples--Research, Prehistoric peoples--Social aspects

Collections: History, Entire Library

...267-283. Pietrusewsky, M., and M. T. Douglas 2002 Ban Chiang, a Prehistoric Village Site in Northeast Thailand I: The Human Skeletal Remains...Humans in Asia: 532-558, ed. T. Akazawa, K. Aoki, and T. Kimura. Japan: Hokusen-Sha. Saunders, S. R., and A. Keenleyside 1999 Enamel...
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Jomon Pottery Production in Central Japan

Journal article by Junko Habu, Mark E. Hall; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 38, 1999

Subjects:

Archaeology--Japan, Japan--Art, Pottery--Japan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...hunter-gatherers, in Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in Japan: 3-26, ed. Takeru...1973 Chronology of prehistoric human activity in Kanto, Japan. Pt. 1: Framework...Nihon Senshi Doki Zufu Prehistoric Pottery in Japan. Tokyo: Senshi Kokogakkai...
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Multicultural Japan, Palaeolithic to Postmodern

Journal article by E. Patricia Tsurumi; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Multicultural Japan, Palaeolithic to Postmodern (Book)--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...heterogeneous, multicultural human experience in prehistoric and historic Japan. Some of these, like Richard Pearsons "The Place...that key questions regarding the ethnic origins of Japan have yet to be answered. Others suggest that emphasis...
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Korean History Studies in Japan: The 1998 Shigaku Zasshi Review

Journal article by Yi Songshi, Rokutanda Yutaka, Matsumoto Takenori; Korean Studies, 1999

Subjects:

Books--Excerpts, Japan--History, Japanese history, Korean History Studies in Japan: The 1998 Shigaku Zasshi Review. (Book)--Excerpts

Collections: History, Entire Library

...attempts a reexamination of the history of Japan-Korea relations. 14 In addition, Morimitsu...earlier in time, Komoto Masayuki discusses prehistoric fishing technologies by examining the...touching upon connections between China and Japan, adds new perspectives on wooden strips...

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Japan's Samurai Castles - of the Thousands of Wooden Castles That Stood Guard over Medieval Japan, Three of the Dozen That Remain Helped Shape the Modern Cities That Grew Up around Them

Magazine article by Kristin Johannsen; World and I, Vol. 18, July 2003

Subjects:

Castles--Appreciation, Castles--Design and construction, Castles--Personal narratives, Japan--Description and travel, Japan--Personal narratives

Collections: Entire Library

...earthquakes. Tremors rock Japan virtually every day, some barely...sculptures, stone coffins from prehistoric burial mounds, and small millstones...Guns were first brought to Japan in 1543 by the Portuguese...dark, and smoky. In feudal Japan, everything had its assigned...
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The Secret of Cladh Hallan

Magazine article by David Keys; Geographical, Vol. 75, June 2003

Subjects:

Ancestor worship--Social aspects, Archaeology, Burial--Social aspects, Mummies--Discovery, exploration, etc., Prehistoric peoples--Discovery, exploration, etc., Prehistoric peoples--Rites and ceremonies, Prehistoric peoples--Social aspects, Scotland--Discovery, exploration, etc., Scotland--History

Collections: Entire Library

...expropriated by those who had slain them. In Japan and Tibet, holy men were mummified, while...on important community matters. In prehistoric Britain there was also a tradition of...redefine key aspects of life and death in prehistoric society," says Dr Parker Pearson, the...
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Off the Beaten Track to Early Amazonians

Magazine article by Chris Mackey; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 49, May-June 1997

Subjects:

Amazon River Region--History, Anthropological research--Reports, Clovis culture--History, Paleo-Indians--Research, Prehistoric peoples--Amazon River Region, Roosevelt, Anna--Research

Collections: Entire Library

...Pleistocene cultures in the areas of Japan, Taiwan, the coast of China that have...by human activities repeatedly during prehistoric and historic times. She warns biologists...patterns came about precisely because prehistoric human activities altered the topography...
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The Search for the First Britons: Cannibalism, Climate Change and Interspecies Copulation-The Human History of the British Isles Has It All. Professor Chris Stringer Talks to Andrew Brackenbury about Trying to Unravel This Extraordinary Tale

Magazine article by Andrew Brackenbury; Geographical, Vol. 79, March 2007

Subjects:

Anthropology, Prehistoric--Research, Cannibalism (Human behavior)--History, Cannibalism (Human behavior)--Research, Cannibalism--History, Cannibalism--Research, Cave dwellers--Research, Cave dwellers--Social aspects, Cave-dwellers--Research, Cave-dwellers--Social aspects, Climate change--Environmental aspects, Climate change--History, Climatic changes--Environmental aspects, Climatic changes--History, Prehistoric anthropology--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...back about 11,500 years--far later than those of our European neighbours or the native peoples of the Americas, Australia and Japan. "We knew that there were gaps, that the human inhabitation of Britain was episodic before the project began," says Stringer...
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News

Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 51, June 2001

Subjects:

England--Antiquities, Japan--Relations with South Korea, Orkney--Demographic aspects, South Korea--Relations with Japan

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Yorkshire. (April 7th) South Korea has recalled its ambassador to Japan in protest at new school history textbooks which, according...4,000 year-old timbers could lead to their destruction. The prehistoric wooden circle was excavated after it emerged from the sea at...

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FARM & COUNTRY: Prehistoric and Carcinogenic. This Ancient Invader Is Creeping across Our Countryside; It's All the Rage in Conservatories. but the Humble Fern Has a Sinister Side

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), June 8, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

FARM COUNTRY: Prehistoric and Carcinogenic. This Ancient Invader...contaminated," said Prof Marrs. In China and Japan the frond tips are eaten as a delicacy...are considered a delicacy in China and Japan - where stomach cancer is on the increas...
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Happy Daughters of Eve Day; Just Seven Prehistoric Mums Gave Birth to All of Europe's Women, Says DNA Expert

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), February 28, 2008

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...cent of modern Europeans are claimed to hail from these seven prehistoric women - dubbed the Seven Daughters Of Eve. Oxford University...non-European clan mothers and recently identified nine from Japan. Some have questioned his theory, but others see it as a way...
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Religion Finds Fallow Fields in Japan Today; 'Not a Lot of Interest' after Aum Case

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 27, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...have a growth of anonymous religious behavior in Japan. ... Japan has always had an eccentric religious environment." Shinto ("the way of the gods"), Japans indigenous religion, dates to prehistoric times and has no founder or scripture. It concerns harvest...
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Noguchi's Good-Earth Sculptures

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 31, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the artist had returned to Japan to find his personal and artistic...Brancusis abstractions of women and prehistoric Japanese "haniwa" tomb figures...when he made his first trip to Japan in 1931. The work from this...intensity came from experiencing Japan and reconnecting with his cultural...
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`Lost World' Finds Home on Video: Foreign Films Make Impressive U.S. Entry

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 13, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Jurassic Park (Universal, $22.98) may be the months biggest prehistoric story, but it doesnt mark the end of video-dinosaur developments...of lean, mean airborne reptiles bent on turning present-day Japan into a personal feeding and breeding ground. Assisting the...

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Japan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...between Tokyo and Osaka and later extended. Japanese Society Japan is an extremely homogeneous society with non-Japanese, mostly...the descendants of various peoples who migrated from Asia in prehistoric times; the dominant strain is N Asian or Mongoloid, with some...
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Japanese Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...structures created on the islands that constitute Japan. Evidence of prehistoric architecture in Japan has survived in the form of models of terra-cotta...houses of the Jomon, the neolithic people of Japan. Religious Architecture The more highly...
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Tea

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...produced chiefly in China and Japan; black teas in China, Indonesia...Tea was cultivated in China in prehistoric times and was probably first...and shortly thereafter, in Japan. The tea ceremony of Japan was introduced from China in...
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Chinese Architecture

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...other structures created in China from prehistoric times to the present day. Early Architecture...and temple buildings in both China and Japan. Surrounded by an exterior wall, the building...Chinese art ). Extant monuments in Japan, profoundly influenced by Chinese architecture...
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Cyclopean

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...sikl pe n, name often applied to a primitive method of prehistoric masonry construction, found throughout Greece, Italy, and the...architecture. Somewhat similar examples are seen in China, Japan, and Peru. ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia...

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