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It argues that the Yayoi period brought far more than a “Neolithic Revolution” equivalent: wet-rice agriculture, bronze and iron metalworking, rice-linked architecture, new ritual life, and a hierarchical order grounded in the ruler’s divinity. Against assumptions of exclusive northern or East Asian—especially China and Korea—transmission, the work synthesizes evidence from rice genetics, DNA, and historical linguistics to trace key Yayoi elements to the south.","Globalizing the Prehistory of Japan  \nThis iconoclastic work on the prehistory of Japan and of South East Asia challenges entrenched views on the origins of Japanese society and identity. The social changes that took place in Japan in the time-period when the Jōmon culture was replaced by the Yayoi culture were of exceptional magnitude, going far beyond those of the so-called Neolithic Revolution in other parts of the world. They included not only a new way of life based on wet-rice agriculture but also the introduction of metalworking in both bronze and iron, and furthermore a new architecture functionally and ritually linked to rice cultivation, a new religion anda hierarchical society characterized by a belief in the divinity of the ruler. Because of its immense and enduring impact the Yayoi period has generally been seen asthe very foundation of Japanese civilization and identity.  \nIn contrast to the common assumption that all the Yayoi innovations came from China and Korea, this work combines exciting new 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.  \nAnn Kumar is Professor in the Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, and former Vice-President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.  \nRoutledge Studies in the Early History of Asia  \n1 Imperial Tombs in Tang China, 618–907  \nThe politics of paradise  \nTonia Eckfeld  \n2 Elite Theatre in Ming China, 1368–1644  \nGrant Guangren Shen  \n3 Marco Polo’s China  \nA Venetian in the realm ofKhubilai Khan  \nStephen G. Haw  \n4 The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China  \n“My service in the army”, by Dzengeo  \nIntroduction, Translation and Notes by Nicola Di Cosmo  \n5 Past Human Migrations in East Asia  \nMatching archaeology, linguistics and genetics  \nEdited by Alicia Sanchez-Mazas, Roger Blench, Malcolm D. Ross, Ilia Peiros and Marie Lin  \n6 Globalizing the Prehistory of Japan  \nLanguage, genes and civilization  \nAnn Kumar  \nGlobalizing the Prehistory of Japan  \nLanguage, genes and civilization  \nAnn Kumar  \nFirst published 2009  \nby Routledge  \n2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX 14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge  \n270 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016  \nRoutledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business  \nThis edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2008.  \n“To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go [to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk](to www.eBookstore.tandf.co.uk)”  \n© 2009 Ann Kumar  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Kumar, Ann, 1943–  \nGlobalizing the prehistory of Japan : language, genes and civilization / Ann Kumar.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \n1. Yayoi culture. 2. Japan – History – To 645. I. 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