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SUMMARY:What is “Yayoi”? Using Isotopes to investigate the Jomon-Yayoi
  Transition in Western Japan - Lindsey Friedman\, PhD Candidate in Archaeo
 logy\, Darwin College
DTSTART:20100422T153000Z
DTEND:20100422T163000Z
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CONTACT:Suzanne Pilaar Birch
DESCRIPTION:The talk will review what has been done so far and discuss fut
 ure work still to be done for my PhD. This project applies the stable isot
 ope method to archaeological sites in western Japan in order to investigat
 e if and how diet changed over the Jomon-Yayoi transition in the area wher
 e it first occurred. Dietary reconstructions using stable isotope analyses
  have proven to be useful in archaeology as they provide direct evidence o
 f food consumption. Furthermore\, by combining the isotopic data with arch
 aeological data\, we can enrich our understanding of human-environment and
  human-human interactions at sites. In addition to looking at how diet cha
 nged\, the analyses of Jomon and Yayoi sites will be used to look at how s
 ociety changed. Investigations of social change and social stratification 
 as related to food consumption in prehistoric Japan have not widely occurr
 ed and this will provide a new avenue by which to explore current definiti
 ons of “Yayoi”. 
LOCATION:McDonald Institute Seminar Room\, Department of Archaeology
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