Ancient Ryukyu : an archaeological study of island communities /

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Who are the people of the Ryukyu Islands? How could they survive and prosper on small, isolated islands? How did the independent Ryukyu Kingdom become a major player in East Asian medieval trade? Ancient Ryukyu explores 30,000 years of human occupation in the Ryukyu Islands, from the earliest human...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pearson, Richard J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2014.
Temas:
To 1879
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Physical.
Antiquities
Ryukyu Islands > History > To 1879.
Ryukyu Islands > Antiquities.
Ryūkyū (Japon) > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1879.
Japan > Ryukyu Islands
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the archaeology of Ryukyu islanders
  • The active environment of the Ryukyus
  • Pleistocene inhabitants
  • Arriving and settling : island hunter-gatherer colonization and interaction
  • Surviving in the archipelago : island hunter-gatherer subsistence
  • Exchange networks and the lure of tropical shells
  • The Gusuku period (AD 1050 to 1429) : a new order
  • Ryukyu trade in the Gusuku and early Ryukyu kingdom periods
  • The early Ryukyu Kingdom (AD 1429 to 1609)
  • Discussion and conclusions.

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