Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (2019-2023)

Integrative Human Historical Science of "Out of Eurasia"
Exploring the Mechanisms of the Development of Civilization

Hawaiʻi Conference 2023＠EAST-WEST CENTER, Honolulu + online

Trekking Shores, Crossing Water Gaps, and Beyond:Maritime Aspects in the Dynamics of "Out of Eurasia" Civilizations

March 2
Venue: Hawaiʻi Imin International Conference Center at Jefferson Hall
10:00-10:20 OpeningMatsumoto, Naoko
Goto, Akira

Session１Recent issues on the migration of "Out-of-Eurasia" human groups
Chair: Goto, Akira

10:20-10:40 Kato, Hirofumi (Hokkaido University)(in person)“Rethinking of the ‘Big Game’ Hunter-model: Population dispersal and Coastal Adaptation”
10:40-11:00 Des Lauriers, Matthew (California State University, San Bernardino)(in person)“Form, Function, and Design of Terminal Pleistocene shell fishhooks of the Pacific Rim: coincidental
convergence or shared knowledge?
11:00-11:20 Davis, Loren (Oregon State University)(in person)“Recent progress on the search for submerged late Pleistocene archaeological evidence along thenorthern Pacific Rim”
11:20-11:40 ŌNISHI, Hideyuki (Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts)(in person)“Aleutian Kayak under the Colonisation of the North Pacific Coast”
11:40-12:00 Watanabe, Tsuyoshi (Hokkaido University) &Yamazaki, Atsuko (Nagoya University)(in person)“Coral skeletons; high resolution memories of ocean currents and winds”
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:20 Pāʻanaakalā Baybayan Tanaka (Polynesian Voyaging Society / Hui O Wa'a Kaulua(Assembly of the Double Hull Canoes) 501(c)(3) non-profit organization)(in person)“Process & Experiences of Wayfinding”

13:20-13:40 Goto, Akira (Nanzan University)(in person)“Insdigenous watercraft of the Pacific Rim: comparative ethnography and experimentalarchaeology”

Session 2 Mind and body of "Out-of-Eurasia" human groups
Chair: Seguchi, Noriko

14:00-14:20 Seguchi, Noriko (Kyushu University)(in person)“The Pacific Paradox” revisited”
14:20-14:40 Pietrusewsky, Michael (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)(in person)“Out of Asia: the peopling of the Pacific based on craniometric data”
14:40-15:00 Saiki, Jun (Kyoto University) & Ueda, Yoshiyuki (Kokoro Research Center)(in person)“How do cultural artifacts shape visual attention? A computational model analysis of culturalvariability in visual search”
15:00-15:20 Ishii, Takumi (National Museum of Japanese History) & Matsumoto, Naoko (OkayamaUniv.)(in person)“Mutual permeation model of things, people, and the supernatural: Insights from Jomon pottery
and dogu figurines”
15:20-15:40 Yamamoto, Taro (Institute of Tropical Medicine, Nagasaki University)(in person)“People Living in Hight Altitude”
Key Note Lecture
16:00-17:00 Quintus, Seth (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)(in person)“What Polynesian Agriculture Teaches Us about Niche Construction”

WELCOME RECEPTION in the evening

March 3
Venue: Hawaiʻi Imin International Conference Center at Jefferson Hall
Session 3 New Methodologies and Comparative Perspectives
Chair: Ishimura, Tomo

10:00-10:20 Sekiguchi, Kazuhiro (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)(in person)“arcAstro-VR for archaeoastronomy”
10:20-10:40 Comer, Douglas (Cultural Site Research and Management Foundation)(in person)“Uncovering the Environmental Conditions at the Nan Madol World Heritage Site through Airborne
LiDAR and Satellite SAR Data Relevant to Development of a Monumental Stone Landscape”
10:40-11:00 Mitchell Porter(in person)
Satellite Data Demonstrating the Need for Refined Navigational Knowledge Essential to theDevelopment of the Nan Madol World Heritage Site
11:00-11:20 Ryan, Joseph (Okayama University)(in person)“LiDAR surveying of ancient mounded tombs (kofun) in Japan”
11:20-11:40 Ishimura, Tomo (Tokyo Institue of Cultural Assets)(in person)“Ancient sea scape of Japan: Burial mounds as navigation points”
11:40-12:00 Matsugi, Takehiko (National Museum of Japanese History)(in person)“Monument, ritual, worldview, and social transformation in prehistoric and protohistoric Japan froma maritime and water perspective”
Lunch 12:00-13:00

Symposium on Monument Studies of the Pacific: ethnoarchaeological approaches toritual.
Chair: Nojima, Yoko & Yamaguchi, Toru

13:00-13:30 Kahn, Jennifer (William and Mary University)(online)“Multisensory Experiences of Society Island marae: An Ethnohistorical and ArchaeologicalApproach”
13:30-14:00 Yamaguchi, Toru (Keio University)(online)“Ethnoarchaeology of ritual landscape in Tongareva Atoll, the northern Cook Islands”

14:00-14:30 Rolett, Barry (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)(in person)“Mana and tapu: Marquesan ritual architecture in comparative context”
14:30-15:00 Nojima, Yoko (International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage In theAsia-Pacific Region)(in person)“Ceremonial Landscape in Island Melanesia: the gamal complex of the Banks Islands, Northern
Vanuatu”
15:00-15:30 Discussion for “Symposium on Monument Studies of the Pacific: ethnoarchaeologicalapproaches to ritual.”
General Discussion
15:45-16:45