References and further reading suggestions for the Jomon of Japan:

[The list focuses on references for readers of English.  Readers wanting a start on the massive amount of Japanese literature are suggested to start with the bibliography in Imamura's book.]

Aikens, M. and Higuchi, T., 1982, Prehistory of Japan, Academic Press, New York.  

Akazawa, T. and Aikens, M. (eds.), 1986, Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers in Japan, University of Tokyo, Tokyo.

Barnes, G., 1993, China, Korea and Japan: The rise of civilization in East Asia, Thames and Hudson, New York.  

Bleed, P., 1976, Origins of the Jomon technical tradition, Asian Perspectives, 19, 107-115.

Habu, J., 1996, Jomon sedentism and intersite variability: collectors of the Early Jomon Moroiso phase in Japan, Arctic Anthropology, 33, 38-49.

Habu, J. and Hall, M. E., 1999, Jomon pottery production in central Japan, Asian Perspectives, 38, 125-145.

Habu, J. Jomon of Japan, 2004, Cambridge University Press

Imamura, K., 1996, Prehistoric Japan, UCL Press, London.

Kidder, J. E., 1968, Prehistoric Japanese Arts: Jomon Pottery, Kodansha, Tokyo.  

Kidder, J. E., 1993, The earliest societies in Japan, in (ed. D. Brown), The Cambridge History of Japan, Volume 1: Ancient Japan, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Kobayashi, T., 1992, Regional organization in the Jomon period, Arctic Anthropology, 29, 82-95.

Kobayashi, T., 1998, Hunterer-gatherer subsistance in Jomon Japan, Memoir of the Museum of Archaeology, Kokugakuin University, 14, 3-18.

Koyama, S. and Thomas, D. H., 1981, Affluent Foragers, Senri Ethnological Studies, 2.  

Osawa, M., Kasuya, H., and Sakakibara, Y., 1977, Trace element abundances in stone artefacts and related materials from Japan by neutron activation analysis, Journal of Radioanalytical Chemistry, 39, 137-152. 

Pearson, R., 1990, Jomon ceramics: The creative expression of affluent foragers (10,500-300 B.C.), in  (ed. E. Weeder), The rise of a great tradition: Japanese archaeological ceramics from the Jomon through Heian periods (10,500 B.C. to A. D. 1185), 15-27, Japan Society, New York.  

Pearson, R., 1992, The Nature of Japanese archaeology, Asian Perspectives, 31, 115-162.