Time table
28 (Friday), NOV 2014
10:30-10:50 Registration
10:50-11:00 Masami Izuho (TMU): Introduction.
Session 1: Greater Northeast Asia (Chair: Yuichi Nakazawa)
11:00-11:20 Buvit, I (CWU, USA) and Izuho, M. (TMU, Japan): Recent fieldwork around the LGM inNE Asia.
11:20-11:40 Zwyns, N. (University of California, Davis, Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany), Bolorbat, T. (Institute of Archaeology, Mongolian
Academy of Sciences, Mongolia), Flas, D. (FRS-FNRS, University of Liege, Belgium), Khatsenovich,A. M. (Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, SBRAS, Russia), Odsuren , D. (Institute ofArchaeology MAS), Smith, K.(UC Davis), Pain, C.H.(University of Cambridge, UK), Dogandzic,T.(Department of Human Evolution, MPI, Germany), McPherron, S. P.(Department of HumanEvolution, MPI, Germany), Katz, D. (UC, Davis), Stewart, J.R.(Bournemouth University, UK), Talamo,S. (Department of Human Evolution, MPI, Germany), Hublin, J.-J. (Department of Human Evolution,MPI, Germany), and Gunchinsuren, B. (Institute of Archaeology MAS): The beginning of UP in
Northern Mongolia: new results and perspectives from the open-air site of Tolbor 16.
11:40-12:00 Teyssandier, N. (CNRS, UMR 5608-TRACES, Toulouse university, France), Gunchinsuren
B. (Institute of Archaeology, MAS, Mongolia), Izuho, M. (TMU), Zwyns, N. (UC Davis, USA), Antoine,
P. (CNRS, UMR 8591-LGP, France), Braga, J. (University of Toulouse, UMR 5288-AMIS, France),
Discamps, E. (University of Bergen, Norway), Duranthon, F. (Natural History Museum, Toulouse &UMR 5288-AMIS, France), Lkundev, G. (Institute of Archaeology, MAS, Mongolia), Menard, C. (UMR5608-TRACES, Toulouse university, France), and Tsedendorj, B. (Institute of Archaeology, MAS,Mongolia): Introducing the Havstgayt valley : Archaeological survey and the Upper Paleolithic
in North-Eastern Mongolia.
12:00-13:30 Lunch BreakSession 2: Japan (Chair: Ian Buvit)
13:30-13:50 Takahara, H. (KPU, Japan), Hayashi, R. (Lake Biwa Museum), and Sasaki, N. (KPU):
Vegetation in the Last Glacial Maximum on a mountain range near Lake Biwa, western Japanbased on plant macrofossil and pollen.
13:50-14:10 Nakazawa, Y. (Hokkaido University): Technological and behavioral characteristics ofthe LGM hunter- gatherers in Hokkaido.
14:10-14:30 Terry, K., (CWU), Izuho, M. (TMU), Oda, N. (Meiji University), Buvit, I. (CWU), andFerguson, J. (University of Missouri Columbia, USA): Adaptive Network Strategies andLandscape Use: Preliminary results of geochemical obsidian sourcing and tool consumption
during the Last Glacial Maximum in Hokkaido, Japan.
14:30-14:50 Takakura, J. (Hokkaido University): Identifying the pressure microblade production
using the fracture wings: Recent research from the Middle Upper Paleolithic Hokkaido,
Northern Japan.
14:50-15:10 Iwase, A. (TMU): A preliminary use-wear analysis on chipped stone tools from theLGM microblade assemblage in Hokkaido: the Obarubetsu 2 site as a case study.
15:10-15:30 Break
Poster Session (Core time: 15:30-15:50)
P-01 Kawai, T. (KPU), Takahara, H. (KPU), Kotaki, A. (KPU), Sasaki, N. (KPU), Hayashi, R. (LBM), andNakagawa, K. (Kyoto Prefecture Research Center for Archaeological Properties): Vegetation

changes from MIS3 to MIS2 between the inland area and the Sea of Japan area, near Kyoto,western Japan.
P-02 Oda, N. (Meiji University), Izuho, M. (TMU), Ferguson, J. (UM Columbia), and Glascock, M. (UMColumbia): Obsidian Compositional Studies at the Upper Paleolithic Site of Minamimachi-2,
Hokkaido (Japan).
15:50-17:30 Discussion (Chair: Ian Buvit)
18:00-20:00 Conference Banquet