The University Museum
The University of Tokyo



Bulletin No.27


PREHISTORIC HUNTER-GATHERERS IN JAPAN
—New Research Methods—


Edited by
Takeru AKAZAWA and C. Melvin AIKENS


1986 TOKYO





CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Introduction
T. Akazawa and C. M. Aikens
Part I     Archaeology: Jomon Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence and Settlement
Affluent Collectors at the Edges of Eurasia and North America: Some Comparisons and Observations on the Evolution of Society among North-Temperate Coastal Hunter-Gatherers
    C. M. Aikens, K. M. Ames, and D. Sanger
Prehistoric Hunting Pressure and Paleobiomass: An Environmental Reconstruction and Archaeozoologieal Analysis of a Jomon Shellmound Area
    H. Koike
Volumetry and Nutritional Analysis of a Jomon Shell-Midden
    K. Suzuki
Regional Variation in Procurement Systems of Jomon Hunter-Gatherers
    T. Akazawa
Part II     Physical Anthropology: The People of Japan Past and Present
Geographic Variations in Modern Japanese Somatometric Data: A Secular Change Hypothesis
    M. Kouchi
Contributions of Prehistoric Far East Populations to the Population of Modern Japan: A Q-mode Path Analysis Based on Cranial Measurements
    Y. Mizoguchi
Metrical and Non-Metrical Analyses of Jomon Crania from Eastern Japan
    Y. Dodo
Dental Pathology of Hunter-Gatherers and Early Farmers in Prehistoric Japan
    N. Inoue, G. Ito, and T. Kamegai
Isolate Conservatism and Hybridization in the Population History of Japan: The Evidence of Nonmetric Cranial Traits
    N. S. Ossenberg
Conclusions
    C. M. Aikens and T. Akazawa




CONTRIBUTORS

C. Melvin Aikens
Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.
Takeru Akazawa
Department of Anthropology and Prehistory, The University Museum, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kenneth M. Ames
Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A.
Yukio Dodo
Department of Anatomy, Sapporo Medical College, Sapporo, Japan
Naohiko Inoue
Department of Oral Surgery, University Branch Hospital, University of Tokyo, Tokyo,Japan
Gakuji Ito
Department of Orthodontics, Kagoshima University Dental School, Kagoshima, Japan
Tetsuya Kamegai
Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Iwate Medical College, Morioka,Japan
Hiroko Koike
Department of Biology, Saitama University, Urawa, Japan
Makiko Kouchi
Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Yuji Mizoguchi
Department of Anthropology, National Science Museum (Natural Historical Institution),Tokyo, Japan
Nancy S. Ossenberg
Department of Anatomy, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
David Sanger
Department of Anthropology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, U.S.A.
Kimio Suzuki
Department of Archaeology and Ethnology, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan




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