Keiji Imamura鈥檚 Prehistoric Japan (UCL Press/University of Hawaii Press,
拢19.95, ISBN 1 85728 617 0) gives a fresh account of Japan鈥檚 distinctive
prehistory鈥攁 shadowy Palaeolithic when humans reached the islands, a
precocious Jomon phase of pottery-making, a late transformation when wet-rice
cultivation was introduced from China and state societies developed.
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