Ref ID:	34040
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Takamiya, Hiroto
Title:	The transition from foragers to farmers on the island of Okinawa
Date:	2001
Source:	Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Notes:	Indo-Pacific prehistory: the Melaka papers, Vol. 5
Abstract:	The islands of Okinawa were successfully colonized by a human population probably during the period spanning the later part of the Middle to the Late Jomon. By the Gusuku period, around the 12th century AD, complex societies with subsistence based on agriculture had emerged. When did food production begin in the islands? This paper first reviews existing hypotheses in the beginning of agriculture in Okinawa. Then these hypotheses are examined against archaeobotanical data obtained from this region since 1992. The results of the analyses of macrobotanical remains negate all previously proposed hypotheses and narrow down the timing of the subsistence change. The transition from foraging to farming in Okinawa seems to have taken place abruptly.
Date Created:	1/9/2002
Volume:	21
Page Start:	60
Page End:	67