Archaeology · Asian & African Archaeology
A topic within Asian & African Archaeology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.
2 works
Neil Gordon Munro
Surveys shell-mound, stone-tool and burial evidence to argue Japan held a distinct prehistoric population, later called Jōmon, well before Yamato civilisation, at a time when Japanese archaeology had barely been described in English.
link checked 17 Sept 2026William Gowland
Surveys and measures hundreds of kofun burial mounds across Japan, arguing their construction technique and grave goods place them in a single continuous tradition datable relative to one another before any written Japanese chronology.