Jo ̄mon and Yayoi: premodern to hypermodern4 Peter Bleed, “Almost Archaeology: Early Archaeological Interest in Japan.”
5 The journal Archaeologies gives a flavor of the issues with which the Congress is centrally concerned.
Those wishing to read a survey of the archaeology of the Jōmon and Yayoi periods are directed to
Melvin Aikens, “Origins of the Japanese People”; Mizoguchi Kōji, Archaeology, Society and Identity in
Modern Japan; Werner Steinhaus and Simon Kaner, An Illustrated Companion to Japanese Archaeology;
Takesue Jun’ichi et al., Yayoi jidai; Teshigahara Akira, Jōmon jidai gaidobukku; and Conrad Totman,
Japan: An Environmental History. Those finding the links to Edo period antiquarianism of interest and the
history of Japanese archaeology may care to consult Gina L. Barnes, “The Idea of Prehistory in Japan”;
Lothar von Falkenhausen, “Antiquarianism in East Asia: A Preliminary Overview”; Mizoguchi, Archae-
ology, Society and Identity; and Saito Tadashi, Nihon kokogaku shi shiryō shūsei.
6 http://archaeology.jp/sites/2015/index.htm for 2015; change the date for other years.
7 Mark J. Hudson and Gina L. Barnes, “Yoshinogari: A Yayoi Settlement in Northern Kyushu”; J.
Edward Kidder, Jr., “The Earliest Societies in Japan.” A more structured introduction to the material
traces of these two periods can be found in Werner Steinhaus and Simon Kaner, An Illustrated Companion
to Japanese Archaeology, and updates on the most recent developments in the field are provided in conven-
ient English language summaries in the Japanese Journal of Archaeology (www.jjarchaeology.org).
8 Cf Peter J. Wilson, The Domestication of the Human Species.
9 Simon Kaner, “Antiquarianism and Early Archaeology in Japan,” 72.
10 Margarita Diaz- Andreu, A World History of Nineteenth Century Archaeology.
11 Bleed, “Almost Archaeology.”
12 Bleed, “Almost Archaeology,” 60.
13 François Lachard, The Scholar and the Unicorn: Antiquarians, Eccentrics and Connoisseurs in Eighteenth-
Century Japan, 353.
14 Bleed, “Almost Archeology,” 61.
15 Lachard, The Scholar and the Unicorn, 361–362.
16 Neil Gordon Munro, Prehistoric Japan; Aikens and Higuchi, Prehistory of Japan, 42–45.
17 See Simon Kaner, with Kenichi Yano, “The Origins of Agriculture in the Japanese Archipelago.”
18 Clare Fawcett and Junko Habu, “Education and Archaeology in Japan.”
19 See Walter Edwards, “Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Properties Management: Prewar Ideology
and Postwar Legacies.”
20 Enrico Crema, “Modelling Temporal Uncertainty in Archaeological Analysis.” For more on the Wei
zhih and other Chinese records chronicling archaic Japan, see Ryusaku Tsunoda and L. Carrington
Goodrich, Japan in the Chinese Dynastic Histories: Later Han through Ming Dynasties.
21 For Hitachi fudoki, see Akimoto Kichirō, Fudoki. English translations of this text include Kōno Shozo,
“Hitachi fudoki”; and Mark C. Funke, “Hitachi no Kuni Fudoki.”
22 Teshigahara Akira, Nihon kokogaku shi.
23 Shimizu Junzo, Kamegaoka: A Study of the Kamegaoka Neolithic Site, Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
24 Suzuki Hiroyuki, “Ninagawa Noritane and Antiquarians in the Early Meiji Period,” 406.
25 Mark Hudson, Ruins of Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Japanese Islands.
26 Walter Edwards, “Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Properties Management: Prewar Ideology and
Postwar Legacies.”
27 Mark Hudson, “Foragers as Fetish in Modern Japan.”
28 Kaner, “The Origins of Agriculture.”
29 Teshigahara Akira, Jomon jidai gaidobukku.
30 Sahara Makoto and Harunari Hideji, Dotaku no bi, 252.
31 Teshigahara Akira, Nihon kokogaku shi.
32 Aikens and Higuchi, Prehistory of Japan, 206–210; Teshigahara Akira, Nihon kokogaku shi.
33 Simon Kaner, “William Gowland (1842–1922), Pioneer of Japanese Archaeology”; The Power of Dogu:
Ceramic Figurines from Ancient Japan; and, “Japan.” Munro, Prehistoric Japan.
34 See Tsunoda and Goodrich, Japan in the Chinese Dynastic Histories.
35 Useful summaries of this controversy in English include J. Edward Kidder, Jr., Himiko and Japan’s Elusive
Chiefdom of Yamatai: Archaeology, History, and Mythology; and William Wayne Farris, Sacred Texts and
Buried Treasures: Issues in the Historical Archaeology of Ancient Japan.
36 Bleed, “Almost Archaeology.”
37 See, for example, http://www.wakoku.eu.