• Main Authors: Internationale Archäologie Arbeitsgemeinschaft, Hilfe Kalibrierter Radiokarbondaten Danach
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• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: ice core
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.613.2896; http://www.nendai.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~k_yu1rou/Kudo(2004).pdf

Reconsidering the geochronological and archaeological framework of the late Pleistocene- early Holocene transition on the Japanese islands by Yuichiro Kudo The author intends to examine the relationships between the geochronological settings and ar-chaeological chronologies in order to reconsi-der the man-environment interactions during the Pleistocene- Holocene transition on the Japanese islands. The discussion concentrates on three primary issues: (1) the research pro-blems with particular reference to the existing concept of Japanese ‘Jomon period’, (2) geo-chronological settings in this period on the Ja-panese i s lands, and (3) the re la t ionships between these absolute geochronological set-tings and relative archaeological chronologies by using the calibrated radiocarbon time scale. Based on these considerations, the beginning of the use of the pottery (B and PP group) seems to place the transitional period to the warming stage (stage II), which is nearly con-trasted with the beginning of GI-1 of the ice-core GRIP (Björck et al. 1998). The generali-zation of pottery use (SCRP group) seems to coincide with the abrupt warming of stage II. In addition, the transition to the Holocene (sta-ge IV) corresponds to the transition from the CIP and CMP group to the CWSPP group which is characterized by pit dwellings and in-creasing marine adaptation. However, to solve the problems of contradictory archaeological chronologies and the correlation with the en-vironmental changes on the Japanese islands, a close study from the paleo-ecological points of view and reconsideration of the concept of ‘Jo-mon period ’ itself is extremely required.