JAPANESE JOURNAL of
ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 2 Number 1 December 2014

Greetings from the Co-Editor ...................................................................................................

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Part 1: Original Articles
Social complexity in the Late Jomon period: the constitution of the Shimo’ota shell mound cemeteryof the Boso Peninsula, eastern Kanto, JapanISHIKAWA Takeshi ......................................................................................................................

3Jomon Culture and the peopling of the Japanese archipelago: advancements in the ﬁelds ofmorphometrics and ancient DNA

Ryan W. SCHMIDT & SEGUCHI Noriko ..................................................................................

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Part 2: Reports and Dialogues
Report on the 80th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Archaeological Asssociation

TANAKA Kazuhiko .....................................................................................................................
Part 3: Archaeologia Japonica
I. TRENDS IN ARCHAEOLOGY IN JAPAN .......................................................................................

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Overview

TANAKA Yoshiyuki .....................................................................................................................

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Interdisciplinary Research

UETSUKI Manabu .......................................................................................................................

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The Committee for the Protection of Buried Cultural Properties

The Committee .............................................................................................................................

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Palaeolithic

YAMAOKA Takuya .....................................................................................................................

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Jomon Period

KUSHIHARA Koichi ...................................................................................................................

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Yayoi Period

MORIOKA Hideto .......................................................................................................................

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Kofun Period

TANAKA Yutaka ..........................................................................................................................

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Ancient

HIROSE Mariko ...........................................................................................................................

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Medieval

ISHIKAWA Yasushi ......................................................................................................................

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Early Modern

TAKASHIMA Hiroyuki ...............................................................................................................
Part 3: Archaeologia Japonica
II. TRENDS IN JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES ABROAD ................................

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Korean Peninsula

KOIKE Fumihiro ..........................................................................................................................

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China

MAKIBAYASHI Keisuke ............................................................................................................

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North America

Robert L. KELLY .........................................................................................................................
Part 3: Archaeologia Japonica
III. ANNUAL ACTIVITIES OF THE JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ........

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RECORD OF THE JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATIONFURUSE Kiyohide .......................................................................................................................

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Part 4: Noteworthy Archaeological Sites, Issue 2014 (only available at the website) ........

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