Across the Seas in Prehistoric Northeast Asia

<p>This book provides the current knowledge on prehistoric human contacts and migrations in Northeast Asia (consisting of far eastern Russia Northeastern Siberia Korea Northeast China and Japan) using obsidian as a commodity. The aim of this book is to reconstruct the patterns of prehistoric exchange and human movements in the Upper Palaeolithic and Neolithic of Northeast Asia.</p><p>The proposed book is the first comprehensive summary of obsidian provenance and issues related to prehistoric human contacts/migrations and early seafaring in Northeast Asia. The particular importance of this book is that obsidian is used as a commodity to establish the movements of ancient people that is almost impossible to do using traditional archaeological approaches. The book contains updated information on the vast region with a multitude of obsidian sources and artefacts based on the author���s first-hand knowledge generated in the last 30+ years. It makes this book a unique source of information derived from Russian Japanese Korean and Chinese publications (as well as English summaries) for comparison between different parts of Northeast Asia.</p><p> </p>