No.63 Hunter-Gatherers of the North Pacific Rim:Papers presented at the Eighth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies(CHAGS 8) Aomori and Osaka, October 1998

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No.63 Hunter-Gatherers of the North Pacific Rim:Papers presented at the Eighth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies(CHAGS 8) Aomori and Osaka, October 1998

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No.63 Hunter-Gatherers of the North Pacific Rim:Papers presented at the Eighth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies(CHAGS 8) Aomori and Osaka, October 1998

February 14, 2003 Publication

Edited by Junko HABU, James M. SAVELLE, Shuzo KOYAMA, Hitomi HONGO

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Contents

Preface

Contributors

1 Introduction: Complex Hunter-Gatherer Studies in Japan and the North Pacific Rim

Junko HABU, James M. SAVELLE, Shuzo KOYAMA and Hitomi HONGO

PART I

EVOLUTIONARY CHANGES IN HUNTER-GATHERER CULTURES: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

2 The Evolution of Complex Hunter-Gatherers on the Kodiak Archipelago

Ben FITZHUGH

3 The Evolution of Collector Systems on the Pacific Coast of Northwest North America

William C. PRENTISS and James C. CHATTERS

PART II

PACIFIC-RIM HUNTER-GATHERERS IN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS: ECOLOGY, HISTORY AND DIVERSITY

4 Levels of Inequality in the North Pacific Rim: Cultural Logics and Regional Interaction

Peter P. SCHWEITZER

5 Out of Alaska: Reconstructing the Social Structure of Prehistoric Canadian Thule Culture

James M. SAVELLE and George W. WENZEL

6 An Archaeological Approach to Territoriality and Boundary Defense among Northern California Hunter-Catherers

Carolyn Dean Kuhn DILLIAN

7 The Bear-Hunters of the Zhokhov Island, East Russian Arctic

Vladimir PITUL'KO

8 Okinawa Hunter-Gatherers: The Examination of Hunter-Gatherer Mobility in an Island Context

Hiroto TAKAMIYA

PART III

JOMON HUNTER-GATHERERS AT SANNAI MARUYAMA AND ITS VICINITY: PREHISTORIC HUNTER-GATHERERS IN NORTHEASTERN JAPAN

9 Jomon Culture of Northeastern Japan and the Sannai Maruyama Site

Yasuhiro OKADA

10 Evidence for Jomon Plant Cultivation Based on DNA Analysis of Chestnut Remains

Yo-Ichiro SATO, Shinsuke YAMANAKA and Mitsuko TAKAHASHI

11 Pettery Production and Circulation at the Sannai Maruyama Site, Northern Japan: Chemical Evidence from Early and Middle Jomon Pottery

Junko HABU, Mark E. HALL and Masayuki OGASAWARA

12 Stable Isotope Analysis of Prehistoric Human Bone from the Furuyashiki Site, Kamikita Town, Aomori, Japan: A Pilot Study Report

Brian CHISHOLM and Junko HABU

13 Komakino Stone Circle and Its Significance for the Study of Jomon Social Structure

Daisei KODAMA

14 Foragers as Fetish in Modern Japan

Mark J. HUDSON

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