Episode 8: Bronze and Iron
Iron and Bronze make it to the archipelago. In this episode we’ll talk about the arrival of bronze and iron and what that means for the islands, as well as what it means for our understanding of them.
References
2019, March Miyamoto, Kazuo; “The Spread of rice agriculture during the Yayoi Period: From the Shandong Peninsula to the Japanese Archipelago via the Korean Peninsula”, The Japanese Journal of Archaeology, http://www.jjarchaeology.jp/
2015 Barnes, Gina L.; Achaeology of East Asia: The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan
2015 Kim, Bumcheol; “Socioeconomic Development in the Bronze Age: Archaeological Understanding of the Transition from the Early to Middle Bronze Age, South Korea” https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10125/55550/07_AP_54.1kim.pdf
2013 Mizoguchi, K.; The Archaeology of Japan: From the Earliest Rice Farming Villages to the Rise of the State. (Cambridge World Archaeology). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO97811390342651996
2007 Rhee, S., Aikens, C., Choi, S., & Ro, H.; “Korean Contributions to Agriculture, Technology, and State Formation in Japan: Archaeology and History of an Epochal Thousand Years, 400 B.C.–A.D. 600”. Asian Perspectives, 46(2), 404-459. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/42928724
2007 Shōda Shinya, “A Comment on the Yayoi Period Dating Controversy”, Bulletin of the Society for East Asian Archaeology, Vol 1 (2007) https://seaa-web.org/sites/default/files/publications/bseaa-1/BSEAA1-Shoda.pdf
2005 Hong, W.; “Yayoi Wave, Kofun Wave, and Timing: The Formation of the Japanese People and Japanese Language.” Korean Studies 29, 1-29. doi:10.1353/ks.2006.0007.
1997 Imamura, Keiji; Prehistoric Japan: New perspectives on insular East Asia. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00085215