Late Upper Paleolithic-Initial Jomon transitions, southern Kyushu, Japan: Regional scale to macro processes a close look

Iizuka, Fumie; Izuho, Masami

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2016.12.040

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“…Here, in more favourable climatic conditions, plant gathering, mainly of acorns, became a focus for local people (Habu 2004;Shibutani 2009;Kudo 2014;Noshiro et al 2016). In addition, grinding tools, storage pits, semi-subterranean dwellings, and village-like settlements occurred for the first time here (Imamura 1996;Habu 2004;Shinto 2006;Pearson 2006;Morisaki, Sato 2014;Izuka, Izuho 2017;.…”

Section: Fig 1 Spatio-temporal Distribution Of Pottery-bearing Sites During the Neolithic Transition (Based On 14 C Dates Run On Charcoalmentioning

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Understanding the specific nature of the East Asia Neolithic transition

Yanshina

2019

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The main subject of this article is to define the specific nature of the Palaeolithic-Neolithic transition in East Asia. A comparative analysis of regional East Asian data was run in order to achieve this. As a result, three dissimilar models of the Neolithic transition were distinguished: Meso-Neolithic, Subneolithic, and Neolithic proper. The first and last are similar to their counterparts in the western part of Eurasia, but the Subneolithic is unique for East Asia. Regarding chronology, two stages of Neolithic transition can be clearly recognized in this region. The new Subneolithic type of hunter-gatherer cultures occurred during the first stage around the Sea of Japan. At the second stage, the transition to food production started in central and north-central China. In between, there was a cultural, spatial and temporal gap splitting up the transitional process into two isolated episodes.

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Section: Fig 1 Spatio-temporal Distribution Of Pottery-bearing Sites During the Neolithic Transition (Based On 14 C Dates Run On Charcoalmentioning

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Understanding the specific nature of the East Asia Neolithic transition

Yanshina

2019

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“… The lines in the ocean are inferred paleo-coastlines from around 14,000 cal BP. The map was reprinted/modified from GeomapNavi [ 43 ] and Iizuka and Izuho [ 38 ] ( Fig 2 ), and Iizuka et al [ 41 ] ( Fig 1 ) with the original source, Environment Simulation Laboratory Co, Ltd. [ 44 ], under CC BY licenses, with permissions from the Geological Survey of Japan with the original copyright (2001–2019), Elsevier with the original copyright (2017 and 2022), and Environment Simulation Laboratory Co, Ltd. with the original copyright (2019–2021). …”

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“…Mainly due to the warm ocean current, southern Kyushu had a warm climate even during the Last Glacial Maximum, ca. 26,500–19,000 cal BP (e.g., [ 66 , 67 ]) with warm-temperate species and temperate coniferous forest dominated by temperate deciduous broad-leaved mixed forest [ 38 , 41 ]. The lowlands of the southern tip of Kyushu proper, then connected with Tanegashima and Yakushima, additionally had warm-temperate evergreen forests/broad-leaved evergreen forests as refugia [ 38 , 41 , 68 , 69 ].…”

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“…26,500–19,000 cal BP (e.g., [ 66 , 67 ]) with warm-temperate species and temperate coniferous forest dominated by temperate deciduous broad-leaved mixed forest [ 38 , 41 ]. The lowlands of the southern tip of Kyushu proper, then connected with Tanegashima and Yakushima, additionally had warm-temperate evergreen forests/broad-leaved evergreen forests as refugia [ 38 , 41 , 68 , 69 ]. Yakushima, with a higher elevation, had additional biomes not present on Tanegashima.…”

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Late Pleistocene pottery production and exchange: Provenance studies of hunter-gatherer wares from southern Kyushu, Japan by neutron activation analysis

2022

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Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers in East Asia adopted pottery, yet the ability to reconstruct circulation, mobility, and exchange has been hampered, in part, due to problematic regional geochronology. The driving forces behind pottery adoption is unclear. The purpose of this study is to test our results of the first systematic petrographic pottery sourcing from the pre-Younger Dryas by utilizing neutron activation analysis. We examine samples from the Sankauyama I site on Tanegashima Island, southern Japan, dating to the Incipient Jomon, ca. 14,000/13,500–12,800 cal BP, with a well-defined geochronology. Our NAA results corroborate with the petrographic study suggesting that pottery was mainly produced in-situ, but some vessels were transported long distances from another island. Changing from high mobility, sedentary Incipient Jomon foragers made pottery, occasionally investing in long-distance ceramic vessel transportation and exchange likely involving ocean crossing. This may be associated with a risk-buffering strategy in the context of rising sea levels and isolation of Tanegashima.

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“…In recent decades, studies of the Neolithisation process in China, Russia and Japan have begun to give greater attention to the importance of establishing more secure chronologies and to climatic and environmental contexts (e.g. Bar-Yosef 2011; Iizuka & Izuho 2017; Morisaki & Natsuki 2017; Sato & Natsuki 2017).…”

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