Koji Mizoguchi is Professor of Social Archaeology at the Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan. He is the author of An Archaeological History of Japan: 30,000 BC to AD 700 (2002) and Archaeology, Society and Identity in Modern Japan (Cambridge, 2006). Dr Mizoguchi is regarded as a leading Japanese archaeologist, particularly in the study of the Yayoi period and mortuary archaeology. His many contributions to scholarly journals focus on the postcolonial archaeologies of East Asia with special emphasis on Japan, the relationship between modernisation and the disciplinisation of archaeology, and the study of the centralisation and hierarchisation of social relations by using formal network analysis methods.
1. Introduction: the beginning of everything?; 2. A tale of
co-transformation: the history of modern Japan and the archaeology of the
Yayoi and Kofun periods; 3. Frameworks; 4. Environment and the East Asian
context; 5. Beginnings: from the Incipient Yayoi (900/600 BC) to the Late
Yayoi I periods (400/200 BC); 6. An archaeology of growth: from the Final
Yayoi I (400/200 BC) to the end of the Yayoi IV (AD 1/50); 7. An
archaeology of hierarchisation: from the final Yayoi IV to the Yayoi V
periods (AD 1/50~200); 8. An archaeology of networks: the Yayoi-Kofun
transition (the Shonai pottery style and the earliest Furu pottery style
phase, AD 200~250/275); 9. An archaeology of monuments: the Early Kofun (AD
275~400) and Middle Kofun periods (AD 400~500); 10. An archaeology of
bureaucracy: the Later Kofun period (AD 500~600); 11. An archaeology of
governance: the establishment of the Ten'no emperor (AD 600~700); 12.
Conclusion.
