Cultivating Japan: Java and the Foundation of Japanese Society (Japanese Studies) (Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia)

by Ann Kumar (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $100.45

  A work on the prehistory of Japan and of South East Asia that challenges views on the origins of Japanese society and identity. It combines scientific evidence from such different fields as rice genetics, DNA and historical linguistics to show that the major elements of Yayoi civilization actually came, not from the north, but from the south.