Ref ID:	31728
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Takamiya, Hiroto
Title:	Initial colonization, and subsistence adaptation processes in the late prehistory of the island of Okinawa
Date:	1996
Source:	Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Notes:	Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Chiang Mai, Thailand 5 to 12 January 1994
Abstract:	The date of the initial settlement of Okinawa is considered in the light of various models for the successful colonization of islands and demographic growth patterns. It is likely that any Pleistocene inhabitants either became extinct or left Okinawa as rising sea levels isolated it from continental Asia, and that successful re-colonization only took place in the Late Jomon period when rapid population growth occurred for the first time in the prehistory of Okinawa. Flotation of soil from the Nazakibaru site near Naha City yielded remains of some cultigens from the later part of the Yayoi-Heian period, the oldest so far known from Okinawa.
Date Created:	10/19/2003
Volume:	15
Page Start:	143
Page End:	150