Title on Photograph: THE FORAGER COMMUNITIES OF JAPAN AND KOREA, 6,000- 500 BC.
Material: MAP
Comments on Photo: IMAGE FROM: ONIANS, JOHN (2004), ATLAS OF WORLD ART. LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING LTD. MAP 2, PAGE 49.
Comments on Subject: A SERIES OF RELATIVELY SEDENTARY CULTURES, WITH NO CLEARLY INSTITUTIONALIZED SOCIAL HIERARCHIES, WAS WELL-ESTABLISHED SCROSS THE KOREAN PENINSULA AND JAPANESE ARCHIPELAGO BY 5,000BC. WHILE THESE COMMUNTIES SHOW CLEARLY LOCALIZED DEVELOPMETS IN THEIR MATERIAL CULTURE, THEY WERE NOT TOTALLY ISOLATED, AS SHOWN BY SHARED POTTERY STYLES. THERE WAS ALSO SOME CONTACT BETWEEN THE PENINSULA AND ARCHIPELAGO, AS SHOWN BY JOMON POTTERY SHERDS AND BY OBSIDIAN FROM KOREAN NEOLITHIC COASTAL SITES AND INFLUENCES FROM THE PENINSULA ON SOME JOMON POTTERY STYLES. RESISTANCE TO CHANGE FROM OUTSIDE, HOWEVER, IS SUGGESTED BY THE RELATIVELY LATE ARRIVAL OF METALLURGY AND AGRICULTURE IN THE REGION.
