Book
Protohistoric Yamato: archaeology of the first Japanese state
Published jointly by the University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies and the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan • (17) • Published In 1988 • Pages: xx, 473
By: Barnes, Gina Lee.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Barnes looks at the rise of state society in Japan in the late Yayoi and Kofun periods through analysis of settlement data. Only the data that might pertain to the Yayoi period were indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects. She used existing site data and conducted additional surveys ot obtain her data. As site location data was frequently not very specific (other than mentioning a town), Barnes created a grid of the Nara Basin and located the sites within the grid. Settlement patterns were then studied by analyzing the data within the grid squares. One surprize found was that there was no change in settlement pattern between Yayoi V and Early Kofun. Barnes proposes '…Both the mounded tombs and the Early Kofun culture came into being within the Yayoi V culture, as an elite stratum of society developed. This situation would not be out of keeping with the idea that social differentiation was both accompanied and facilitated by differentiation of material cultures.' (page 247). What archaeologists had been defining as Yayoi V culture may be the subculture of the commoners while Early Kofun culture may be the elite subculture and the two may be contemporaneous. Category 103 (place names) was used for town names although it is not known whether the names were the same during the Yayoi period.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Reviews and critiques
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Organization and analysis of results of research
- Location
- Topography and geology
- Post depositional processes in archaeological sites
- Water supply
- Ceramic technology
- Settlement patterns
- Burial practices and funerals
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- Archaeological inventories
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Yayoi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2004
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2003
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1979
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- Yayoi period; 2300 BP-1700 BP (300 B.C.-300 A.D.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Nara Basin; Japan
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Gina L. Barnes
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-300)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 89121065
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Yayoi culture