Transition of bifacial hunting weaponry use during the terminal Pleistocene in central Japan

Hashizume, Jun

doi:10.4116/jaqua.54.235

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“…The Upper Paleolithic demic expansion in Japan syncs well with the modern Homo sapiens single-dispersal model out of Africa and rapid dispersal into South Asia (e.g., Forster and Matsumura 2006;Mellars 2006aMellars , 2006b). However, Upper Paleolithic lithic industries that appear after the end of the EUP (∼30,000 years ago) exhibit extensive regional variation, particularly in the technological, morphological, and stylistic characteristics of the complexes represented by the knife-shaped tools (e.g., Morisaki 2012;Ohyi 1968;Yoshikawa 2010), bifacial points (e.g., Hashizume 2015), and microblade cores (e.g., Sato and Tsutsumi 2007). The observed variation might have been created by a combination of human migrations from the East Asian mainland and endemic technological invention and transformation among Upper Paleolithic huntergatherers between the different microregions in the Japanese Archipelago.…”

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On the Pleistocene Population History in the Japanese Archipelago

Nakazawa¹

2017

Current Anthropology

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This paper provides a current understanding of human population history in the Pleistocene Japanese Archipelago, particularly with respect to the routes and timing of hunter-gatherer migrations, by incorporating multiple lines of evidence from the records of archaeology, human paleontology, and genetic studies. The human fossil remains are concentrated on the Ryukyu Islands in southwestern Japan, suggesting that there may have been a northward migration via the Ryukyu Islands. In contrast, studies of ancient mitochondrial DNA demonstrate genetic continuity among Holocene hunter-gatherer populations in the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kurile Peninsula, whereas the Pleistocene genetic history is little explored. Although it is largely supported, the assumed population continuity from the Pleistocene to the Holocene inside the Japanese Archipelago is also challenged by an examination of the Paleolithic record and a comparison of the short-and long-term chronologies of the Japanese Paleolithic, implying that the Japanese Paleolithic record was created by hunter-gatherer population migrations from the north and south with substantial time lag and endemic technological invention and transformation during the Late Pleistocene. [ynakazawa@med.hokudai.ac.jp]). This paper was submitted 12 X 16, accepted 7 VII 17, and electronically published 9 XI 17.

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