Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume II
- The Cambridge World History
- A World with Agriculture, 12,000 bce–500 ce
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Archaeogenetics
- 3 Agricultural origins
- 4 What did agriculture do for us?
- 5 Communities
- 6 Pastoralism
- 7 Agriculture and urbanism
- 8 Early agriculture in Southwest Asia
- 9 ’Ain Ghazal, Jordan
- 10 Early agriculture in South Asia
- 11 Mehrgarh, Pakistan
- 12 Early agriculture in China
- 13 Xinglonggou, China
- 14 Early agriculture in Japan
- 15 The Nara basin paddies, Japan
- 16 Early agriculture in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
- 17 Swamp cultivators at Kuk, New Guinea
- 18 Early agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa to c. 500 ce
- 19 The Tichitt tradition in the West African Sahel
- 20 Early agriculture in the Americas
- 21 Nanchoc valley, Peru
- 22 Early agricultural society in Europe
- 23 Pioneer farmers at Brześć Kujawski, Poland
- Index
- References
15 - The Nara basin paddies, Japan
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVolume II
- The Cambridge World History
- A World with Agriculture, 12,000 bce–500 ce
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Archaeogenetics
- 3 Agricultural origins
- 4 What did agriculture do for us?
- 5 Communities
- 6 Pastoralism
- 7 Agriculture and urbanism
- 8 Early agriculture in Southwest Asia
- 9 ’Ain Ghazal, Jordan
- 10 Early agriculture in South Asia
- 11 Mehrgarh, Pakistan
- 12 Early agriculture in China
- 13 Xinglonggou, China
- 14 Early agriculture in Japan
- 15 The Nara basin paddies, Japan
- 16 Early agriculture in Southeast Asia and the Pacific
- 17 Swamp cultivators at Kuk, New Guinea
- 18 Early agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa to c. 500 ce
- 19 The Tichitt tradition in the West African Sahel
- 20 Early agriculture in the Americas
- 21 Nanchoc valley, Peru
- 22 Early agricultural society in Europe
- 23 Pioneer farmers at Brześć Kujawski, Poland
- Index
- References
Summary
The sites in the Nara basin are very informative about the spread of rice farming through the western part of the Japanese archipelago and about the associated transition from the Jomon to the Yayoi period of Japanese prehistory. The ridges were carefully planned to ensure that the water irrigated all the paddies. A number of large-scale excavations were recently undertaken in the southwestern Nara basin in advance of the Keinawa expressway linking Kyoto, Nara and Wakayama, which crosses the basin from north to south. The area affected by the construction of the new road had been paddy since at least medieval times and, unlike many of the more urbanized parts of the region. Excavations at Nakanishi-Akitsu began in 2009 and are continuing. Twenty seasons of excavations have taken place to date at Nakanishi, with early Yayoi paddies investigated between the fourteenth and twentieth excavation areas, in conjunction with the construction of the Keinawa expressway.
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Further reading
Amino, Y. Rethinking Japanese History. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 2012.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Barnes, G.L. State Formation in Japan: Emergence of a 4th-Century Ruling Elite. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies, 1988.Google Scholar
Hudson, M. The Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 1999.Google Scholar
Kidder, J.E. Himiko: The Elusive Kingdom of Yamatai. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Mizoguchi, K. The Archaeology of Japan: From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State. Cambridge University Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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