This study presents a high-resolution, chronologically well-constrained pollen record from
Lake Kushu (45° 25′ 58 ″N, 141° 02′ 05 ″E) and a record of archaeobotanical remains …

After almost three centuries of investigations into the question of what it means to be human
and the historical processes of becoming human, archaeologists have amassed a huge …

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) …

Living in remote places can strain the adaptive capacities of human settlers. It can also
protect communities from external social, political and economic forces. In this paper, we …

In the nineteenth century, the Mekong, Red, and Chao Phraya river deltas in Southeast Asia
underwent a massive expansion in agricultural settlement and engineering (Dao and Molle …

This chapter develops a model to frame differences in the degree and intensity of
huntergatherer information networking as strategic responses to differing degrees of …

Network analysis using hunter-gatherer archaeological data presents a number of unique
challenges. At the forefront of these challenges are issues associated with the aggregation …

ABSTRACT ARCHIPELAGO is an archaeological and historical database of land and sea
food resources utilised in the Japanese Islands. Here we present a dataset of human bone …

20 enhanced support for retrospective studies of historical pattern and periodicity in
earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, drought, climate change, and other …

The Okhotsk people were sedentary hunter-gatherer-fishers who lived and prospered in
Sakhalin, Hokkaido, and the Kurile Islands during the fifth–thirteenth centuries AD. They …