SES no.63; Introduction : Complex Hunter-Gatherer Studies in Japan and the North Pacific Rim

The volume was the proceedmgs ofthe Third Annual Taniguchi Symposium held in Japan in 1979, the ptmary goal ofwhich was to compare the foraging economies ofprehistoric Japan and those ofCalifbrnia [KoyAMA and THoMAs 198lb: 1].ln the introduction to the volume, Koyama and Thomas noted the diverging paths in the later history of the two foraging societies in Japan and Califomia: the Jomon people of the Japanese Islands adopting the cultivation ofpaddy rice from Continenta1 Asia in the middle ofthe first mi11emium B.C., whereas the native peoples in Califbrnia remained essentially as