Ethnoarchaeology of Introducing Agriculture and Social Continuity among Sedentarised Hunter–Gatherers: The Transition from the Jomon to the Yayoi Period

This study was conducted to elucidate the introduction of agriculture and social continuity from Jomon Yayoi period, an ethnoarchaeological perspective. The period has been divided into two types: a broad spectrum economy that relied on many kinds resources, such as rice, millet, nuts, selective specialised in rice wild boar. However, it is not clear how livelihoods shifted period. In this study, ethnohistorical materials were examined first. Ethnohistorical reference gathered worldwide have revealed three relationships between hunter–gatherers farmers: coexistence, fusion, assimilation. Focusing situations hunting, gathering, fishing, inferred ruins Late Final assessed their with using Early Edo There changes caused by field farming; however, paddy cultivation had different effects society depending level investment obtaining water streams springs creating irrigation features.