Ruins -- Identity -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Japanese Ethnicity -- Tales Told in a Dream -- The Yayoi and the Formation of the Japanese -- Biological Anthropology and the Dual- Structure Hypothesis -- The Linguistic Archaeology of the Japanese Islands -- From Jômon to Yayoi -- An Emerging Synthesis? -- Post-Yayoi Interaction and Ethnogenesis -- Ethnicity and the Ancient State -- The Unbroken Forest? -- Japanese Ethnicity -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.