Hunter-gatherers of the North Pacific rim
Subtitle: papers presented at the eighth International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 8), Aomori and Osaka, October 1998
By: edited by Junko Habu ... [et al.].
Contributors: Habu, Junko, 1959-
Series: Senri ethnological studies -- no. 63.
Publisher: National Museum of Ethnology
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Osaka, Japan
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Hunting and gathering societies -- Pacific Area -- Congresses.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Japan -- Congresses.; Jōmon culture -- Japan -- Congresses.; Pacific Area -- Antiquities -- Congresses.; Japan -- Antiquities -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: CHAGS 8.
Notes: "The Monbusho International Symposium, "Foraging and Post-Foraging Societies: History, Politics and the Future", which formed the 8th International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS 8) was held at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan on 26-30 October, 1998 ; associated sessions were held in Aomori (October 21-25) and Hokkaido (October 30-31)."--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: complex hunter-gatherer studies in Japan and the North Pacific Rim / Junko Habu, James M. Savelle, Shuzo Koyama, Hitomi Hongo; title: Evolution of complex hunter-gatherers on the Kodiak Archipelago / Ben Fitzhugh; title: Evolution of collector systems on the Pacific Coast of Northwest North America / William C. Prentiss, James C. Chatters; title: Levels of inequality in the North Pacific rim: cultural logics and regional interaction / Peter P. Schweitzer; title: Out of Alaska: reconstructing the social structure of prehistoric Canadian Thule culture / James M. Savelle, George W. Wenzel; title: Archaeological approach to territoriality and boundary defense among Northern California hunter-gatherers / Carolyn Dean Kuhn Dillian; title: Bear-hunters of the Zhokhov Island, East Russian Arctic / Vladimir Pitul'ko; title: Okinawa hunter-gatherers: the examination of hunter-gatherer mobility in an island context / Hiroto Takamiya; title: Jomon culture of northeastern Japan and the Sannai Maruyama site / Yasuhiro Okada; title: Evidence for Jomon plant cultivation based on DNA analysis of chestnut remains / Yo-Ichiro Sato, Shinsuke Yamanaka, Mitsuko Takahashi; title: Pottery production and circulation at the Sannai Maruyama site, northern Japan: chemical evidence from early and middle Jomon pottery / Junko Habu, Mark E. Hall, Masayuki Ogasawara; title: Stable isotope analysis of prehistoric human bone from the Furuyashiki Site, Kamikita town, Aomori, Japan: a pilot study report / Brian Chisholm, Junko Habu; title: Komakino stone circle and its significance for the study of Jomon social structure / Daisei Kodama; title: Foragers as fetish in modern Japan / Mark J. Hudson.