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5 - Persistence of Time: Resilience and Adaptability in Prehistoric Jomon Hunter-Gatherers from the Inland Sea Region of Southwestern Honshu, Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2018

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Daniel H. Temple
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Daniel H. Temple  and
Christopher M. Stojanowski
Daniel H. Temple
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George Mason University, Virginia
Christopher M. Stojanowski
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
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Summary

Hunter-gatherers of the Late to Final phase of the Jomon period experienced a long-term intensified cooling cycle that shifted the ecological context for resource procurement. The goal of this chapter is to compare and contrast resilience/adaptability and transformation in the adaptive cycles of these populations. Diet, ritual practices, and stress in samples from the Middle and Late/Final phase of the Jomon period are used to explore these questions. Evidence for intensification of cariogenic resources is found, but these foods were derived from preexisting components of the Jomon dietary spectrum, and thus, suggest resilience/adaptability. Intensification of mortuary ritual and tooth extraction patterns portend transformation in social structure. However, many of the symbols used in these practices were derivative of the Jomon socioecological system suggesting internal coherence in these behaviors. Finally, body size in later samples was significantly smaller, though these growth disruptions did not impact mortality. These results are also consistent with small-scale, internal changes to the socioecological and cultural systems of the Late/Final phase of the Jomon period.
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Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience
A Bioarchaeological Perspective
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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