JAPANESE JOURNAL of
ARCHAEOLOGY
Volume 9 Number 1 December 2021

Editorial .......................................................................................................................................

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Part 1: Original Article
Micro-Regional Complexities in Yayoi Pottery Form as Seen through Morphometric Statistical Analysis

James Frances LOFTUS III .........................................................................................................

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Part 2: Summary of Work Awarded Japanese Archaeological Association Prize ................

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Archaeology on the Eve of the Establishment of the Ryukyu State

SHINZATO Akito ........................................................................................................................

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

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Overview

TSUJI Hideto ................................................................................................................................

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Interdisciplinary Research

ITAHASHI Yū .............................................................................................................................

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Paleolithic

ODA Noriyoshi ............................................................................................................................

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Jomon Period

NOZAKA Tomohiro ....................................................................................................................

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Yayoi Period

SHIROISHI Tetsuya ....................................................................................................................

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Kofun Period

WADA Kazunosuke .....................................................................................................................

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Medieval

ISHII Kei ......................................................................................................................................

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Early Modern

ICHIKAWA Tsukuru ....................................................................................................................

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Part 3: Archaeologia Japonica
II. TRENDS IN ARCHAEOLOGY IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES .........................................

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Korean Peninsula

HIRAGŌRI Tatsuya & KIM Woodae .........................................................................................

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China

OBINATA Ichirō .......................................................................................................................... 101

South Asia

KOISO Manabu ............................................................................................................................ 103

West Asia

ARIMURA Makoto ..................................................................................................................... 104

Part 3: Archaeologia Japonica
III. RECORDS OF THE JAPANESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ................... 105
The Committee for the Protection of Buried Cultural Properties .......................................................... 106
Record of the Japanese Archaeological Association ............................................................................. 107

Notes to Contributors ................................................................................................................. 108