Long-term marine resource use in Hokkaido, Northern Japan: new insights into sea mammal hunting and fishing

Takase, Katsunori

doi:10.1080/00438243.2019.1699854

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“…In the first millennium BCE, the Jomon hunting and gathering lifestyle was transformed by rice agriculture in the Yayoi tradition in western and central Japan but persisted in what comes to be called the Epi-Jomon in Hokkaido and the Kurils. Epi-Jomon people continued to hunt, fish and gatherer wild terrestrial and marine foods, with increasingly intensive fishing strategies (Takase, 2014(Takase, , 2020a.…”

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Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene

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Using 14 proxy human population time series from around the North Pacific (Alaska, Hokkaido and the Kuril Islands), we evaluate the possibility that the North Pacific climate and marine ecosystem includes a millennial-scale regime shift cycle affecting subsistence and migration. We develop both visual and statistical methods for addressing questions about relative population growth and movement in the past. We introduce and explore the use of a Time Iterative Moran I (TIMI) spatial autocorrelation method to compare time series trends quantitatively – a method that could prove useful in other paleoecological analyses. Results reveal considerable population dynamism around the North Pacific in the last 5000 years and strengthen a previously reported inverse correlation between Northeast and Northwest Pacific proxy population indices. Visual and TIMI analyses suggest multiple, overlapping explanations for the variability, including the potential that oscillating ecological regime shifts affect the North Pacific basin. These results provide an opening for coordinated research to unpack the interrelated social, cultural and environmental dynamics around the subarctic and arctic North Pacific at different spatial and temporal scales by international teams of archaeologists, historians, paleoecologists, paleoceanographers, paleoclimatologists, modelers and data management specialists.

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Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene

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“…At the same time, there is evidence for specialised marine activities. In Hokkaido, there was an emphasis on large benthic fish, especially Pleuronectinae and bastard halibut (Paralichthys olivaceus), as well as swordfish (Takase 2019). Abalone became a common trade item down the Sea of Japan and it has been suggested that fishing groups from Kyushu made summer voyages up to Rebun island to catch abalone (see Hudson 2021a, in press).…”

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Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia

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2022

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Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises long-distance connectivities and political decentralisation. 'Bronzisation' is discussed as a type of proto-globalisation. In this Element, Mark Hudson examines whether these approaches can also be applied to East Asia. Focusing primarily on Island East Asia, he analyses trade, maritime interactions and warrior culture in a comparative Eurasian framework. He argues that the international division of labour associated with Bronze Age trade provided an important stimulus to the rise of decentralised complexity in regions peripheral to alluvial states. Building on James Scott's work, the concept of the 'barbarian niche' is proposed as a way to model the longue durée of premodern Eurasian history.

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“…In western Japan, the Late-Final phases were associated with wet storage pits for deciduous acorns, which require less leaching (Kawashima, 2016;Hosoya, 2011). In Hokkaido, sea-mammal hunting became more important from the second half of the Middle Jōmon; while this has been linked with climatic cooling (Yamaura, 1998), there was also an increase in specialised fishing of large prey such as swordfish and olive flounder (Paralichthys olivaceus, also known as 'bastard halibut') in the Final Jōmon and early Epi-Jōmon phases (Takase, 2020). Hudson (2020a) has argued that these changes in Late-Final Jōmon subsistence must also be seen against the background of a reluctance to follow the Neolithic pattern of complexity into full-scale agriculture.…”

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Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change

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From northern China, millet agriculture spread to Korea and the Maritime Russian Far East by 3500–2700 BC. While the expansion of agricultural societies across the Sea of Japan did not occur until around 900 BC, the intervening period saw major transformations in the Japanese archipelago. The cultural florescence of Middle Jōmon central Honshu underwent a collapse and reorganisation into more decentralised settlements. Mobility increased as Late Jōmon influences spread from eastern into western Japan, and populations expanded to offshore islands such as Okinawa and the Kurils. In Kyushu and other parts of western Japan, the eastern Jōmon expansion was associated with the cultivation of adzuki and soybeans but, contrary to earlier assessments, there is no evidence for the introduction of cereal crops at this time. Here, we analyse archaeological and historical linguistic evidence of connections between the Eurasian mainland and the Japanese Islands c. 3500 to 900 BC. A re-evaluation of archaeological material discussed since the 1920s concludes that the transformations in Jōmon society during this period were at least in part a response to contacts with Eurasian Bronze Age cultures. Evidence for linguistic contact between Koreanic and the Ainuic languages which are presumed to have been spoken by Jōmon populations is also consistent with new Bronze Age mobilities. Although prehistoric Japan was one of the most isolated regions of Eurasia, we conclude that the historical evolution of societies in the Japanese archipelago after the third millennium BC was linked with processes of Bronze Age globalisation.

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Long-term marine resource use in Hokkaido, Northern Japan: new insights into sea mammal hunting and fishing

Cited by 15 publications

References 13 publications

Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene

Human Paleodemography and Paleoecology of the North Pacific Rim from the Mid to Late Holocene

Bronze Age Maritime and Warrior Dynamics in Island East Asia

Bronze Age Globalisation and Eurasian Impacts on Later Jōmon Social Change

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