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Late Jomon cultigens in northeastern Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

A. C. D'Andrea ,
G. W. Crawford ,
M. Yoshizaki  and
T. Kudo
A. C. D'Andrea
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6 Canada
G. W. Crawford
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1A1 Canada
M. Yoshizaki
Affiliation:
Faculty of General Education, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
T. Kudo
Affiliation:
Hachinohe City Board of Education, Hachinohe City, Aomori, Japan
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The subsistence basis for Japanese civilization has always been intensive rice cultivation. What was grown there before the introduction of paddy technology? A glimpse of the plant cultigens in the later Jomon begins to tell.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 262 , March 1995 , pp. 146 - 152
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995 

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