Ask an Archaeologist, Episode 18: Japanese Archaeology - From Jomon Hunter-Gatherers to Edo Samurai

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Junko Habu is Professor of the Department of Anthropology, University of California,
Berkeley, and Affiliate Professor of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
(RIHN; 総合地球環境学研究所), Japan. Born in Kawasaki City in Kanagawa Prefecture,
she received her BA (1982) and MA (1984) from Keio University and her Ph.D.
(1996) from McGill University. Habu has excavated a number of prehistoric Jomon sites
and historic Edo period sites in Japan, as well as Thule Inuit sites in the Canadian arctic.
Her books include Subsistence-Settlement Systems and Intersite Variability in the Moroiso
Phase of the Early Jomon Period of Japan (International Monographs in Prehistory 2001),
Ancient Jomon of Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2004; translated into Korean in
2016), Beyond Foraging and Collecting (Kluwer/Plenum 2002, co-edited with B. Fitzhugh)
and Evaluating Multiple Narratives (Springer 2008, co-edited with C. Fawcett and J.
M. Matsunaga). Habu’s research focuses on human-environmental interaction and
long-term sustainability of human cultures and societies. Her archaeological project in
Japan, the Berkeley Sannai Maruyama and Goshizawa Matsumori project, uses archaeological
data to investigate the mechanisms of long-term culture change among prehistoric
Jomon hunter-gatherers of Japan (ca. 14,000-500 BC). Factors examined in this study
include food and subsistence diversity, mobility of people, goods and information, social
inequality, population, and climate change. In collaboration with the Research Institute for
Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, From 2011 to 2017, Habu conducted a transdisciplinary
project at RIHN titled Long-term Sustainability through Place-Based, Small-scale
Economies: Approaches from Historical Ecology.
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