From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State
by
Koji Mizoguchi
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
This is the first book-length study of the Yayoi and Kofun periods of Japan (c.600 BC–AD 700), in which the introduction of rice paddy-field farming from the Korean peninsula ignited the rapid development of social complexity and hierarchy that culminated with the formation of the ancient Japanese...