Resilience theory provides a critical framework for examining the capacity of human
societies to respond to changes to essential features of the human–environment …

The Jomon culture is one of the longest continuous phases of complex huntergatherer
populations in world prehistory (Habu, 2004; Imamura, 1996). Jomon culture extends to …

This article reviews recent advances in the field of hunter-gatherer archaeology in Japan
and Korea. It concentrates on issues that are key to understanding the importance of east …

This dissertation reconstructs behavioral and biological variation among prehistoric Jomon
foragers and Yayoi agriculturalists using bioarchaeological data. The Jomon were a group …

Abstract The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease paradigm evaluates the
consequences of early life stress on health at later stages of life. Interacting with this …

This study documents and interprets systemic stress during the agricultural transition in
prehistoric Japan using linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) defects and cribra orbitalia (CO) …

The spatio-temporal distribution of archaeological sites in the Hokkaido region reveals
hunter–gatherer population dynamics from the Upper Palaeolithic (> 14,000 cal. yr BP) …

The accumulated archaeological records have shown that hunter-gatherer societies turned
from mobile to sedentary ways of life through the transition from the terminal Pleistocene to …

While substantial progress has been achieved in hunter–gatherer research over the last
century, it is still the case that the understanding of the cultural dynamism, variability, and …

Bioarchaeology uses human skeletal remains to reconstruct varied experiences of
individuals and populations in the past, including patterns of health across time periods and …