JAPANESE JOURNAL of
ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 8 Number 2 March 2021

Editorial ....................................................................................................................................... 131
Part 1: Original Articles

Importance of Quercus gilva (イチイガシ) for the prehistoric periods in western JapanNOSHIRO Shuichi, SASAKI Yuka & MURAKAMI Yumiko .................................................. 133

Survey of Prehistoric and Ancient Period Architectural Reconstructions in Japan

John ERTL .................................................................................................................................... 157
Part 2: Special Section: Landscape Archaeology of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers:
Ecology, Material Culture and Sustainability Examined at Multiple Temporal andSpatial Scales, Part I ................................................................................................................... 201
The Objectives of the Section: Landscape Archaeology of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers

HABU Junko & Simon KANER ................................................................................................. 203

Connecting Pots and Places: How Many Centres of Pottery Invention in East Asia?

Kevin GIBBS ............................................................................................................................... 209
A Comparison of the Landscape Stewardship Practices Employed by Native Californians in the UnitedStates and the Ancient Jomon People in Japan

Kent G. LIGHTFOOT ................................................................................................................. 227
Landscapes of the Past: Creation of Persistent Places in Hunter-gatherer Landscapes of Southwest Asiaand Japan

Lisa A. MAHER ........................................................................................................................... 247

Part 3: Summary of Work Awarded Japanese Archaeological Association Prize ................ 285
The Bronze Age in the Eurasian Steppes

MATSUMOTO Keita .................................................................................................................. 287

Part 4: Archaeologia Japonica
I. TRENDS IN ARCHAEOLOGY IN JAPAN ......................................................................... 329
Overview

TANIGAWA Akio ........................................................................................................................ 330

Interdisciplinary Research

NAGATOMO Tomoko ................................................................................................................ 331

Paleolithic

ŌTSUKA Yoshiaki ....................................................................................................................... 332

Jomon Period

KAMIJŌ Nobuhiko ...................................................................................................................... 334

Yayoi Period

ISHII Tomohiro ............................................................................................................................ 336

Kofun PeriodŌTA Hiroaki ................................................................................................................................. 337

Ancient

TANAKA Hiroaki ........................................................................................................................ 338

Medieval

YAMAGUCHI Hiroyuki ............................................................................................................. 339

Early Modern

ABE Tsuneki ................................................................................................................................. 341

Part 4: Archaeologia Japonica
II. TRENDS IN ARCHAEOLOGY IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES ......................................... 343
Korean Peninsula

MORI Takanori & TSUCHIYA Takafumi .................................................................................. 345

ChinaSAITŌ Nozomi ............................................................................................................................ 347

Northeast Asia

IWAI Hiroto .................................................................................................................................. 348

Southeast Asia

MIYAMA Emili ........................................................................................................................... 349

Part 4: Archaeologia Japonica
III. RECORDS OF THE JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ................... 350
The Committee for the Protection of Buried Cultural Properties .................................................................... 351
Record of the Japanese Archaeological Association ........................................................................................... 353

Notes to Contributors ................................................................................................................. 354