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Austronesian’ and ‘Jōmon’ identities in the Neolithic of the Ryukyu Islands

Author(s) -

Mark Hudson

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

documenta praehistorica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587

H-Index - 17

eISSN - 1854-2492

pISSN - 1408-967X

DOI - 10.4312/dp.39.17

Subject(s) - archipelago , geography , identity (music) , subsistence agriculture , ethnology , archaeology , ancient history , anthropology , history , art , sociology , agriculture , aesthetics

This paper examines Neolithic cultural identities in the Ryukyu Islands of southwest Japan. It is argued that there were two different identities in this archipelago: a ‘Jōmon’ identity in the northern and central Ryukyus and an ‘Austronesian’ identity in the southern Ryukyus. These identities were constructed despite broad similarities in subsistence adaptation in both cultural zones

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