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  • RADIOCARBON DATING OF TREE RINGS FROM THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE YAYOI PERIOD, JAPAN

  • Minoru Sakamoto, Masataka Hakozaki, Takeshi Nakatsuka, Hiromasa Ozaki
  • Journal:
    Radiocarbon , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 August 2023, pp. 1-9
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  • We have conducted radiocarbon (14C) dating of Japanese tree rings from 1053 to 921 BCE and 41 BCE to 130 CE. Dating was also performed using oxygen isotope dendrochronology to investigate subtle structures of the calibration curve corresponding to the beginning and the end of the Yayoi period in Japan. These two results followed IntCal20, which included the 14C ages of two Japan-sourced trees. The findings suggest that dating of specimens obtained from areas around the Japanese archipelago may be affected by periodic monsoons from the ocean, an effect that needs further examination.

  • 23 - Pioneer farmers at Brześć Kujawski, Poland

  • Edited by Graeme Barker, University of Cambridge, Candice Goucher, Washington State University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge World History
    Published online:
    05 May 2015
    Print publication:
    16 April 2015, pp 589-611

  • Summary

    This chapter explores the development of agrarian societies in Japan and considers the way in which the relationship between rice farming and other foodways contributed to the broader social and cultural developments in the archipelago up to 500 CE. The study of the history of Japanese agriculture has focused on the cultivation of these potential staple plant foods. Domesticated animals played only a limited role in Japanese farming. The chapter discusses the origin and development of rice cultivation in Japan, while reviewing the evidence for the cultivation of other kinds of plant food. Yayoi culture, based on rice farming, is often regarded as replacing the hunter-gatherer, aboriginal, Jomon cultures that preceded it, cultures that are traditionally not regarded as directly ancestral to present-day Japanese. The defences at many later Yayoi settlements, and the move to upland locations, indicate raiding and fighting.