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Globalization and the Historical Evolution of Japanese Fisheries

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Archaeological research exploring prehistoric food globalization is beginning to transform our understanding of early agricultural expansions and exchange. By contrast, a more linear progression from aboriginal to global systems remains a common interpretation of the long-term history of fisheries, a trend sometimes reinforced by ideas about ‘traditional’ culinary heritage. Archaeological and historical information, including faunal remains, fishing tools and trading patterns, are used here to propose a seven-stage model for the history of Japanese fisheries from 14.5 ka (thousand years) BCE to the present. An analysis of causal factors behind these stages shows that globalization played a key role in all seven. Differences in the pattern of the premodern globalization of fisheries between Japan and Atlantic Europe underline the need for further research in this field.

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I thank Ben Fitzhugh for inviting me to contribute to this volume and for his comments on the text. I am also grateful to former students Takamune Kawashima and Yū Taneishi for discussions on the use of marine resources in our graduate seminars. This research was supported by funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 646612).

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Hudson, M.J. (2022). Globalization and the Historical Evolution of Japanese Fisheries. In: Cassidy, J., Ponkratova, I., Fitzhugh, B. (eds) Maritime Prehistory of Northeast Asia. The Archaeology of Asia-Pacific Navigation, vol 6. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1118-7_5

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