Preface ....................................................... iii
High-Resolution Climate Reconstruction for the Past 72Ka
from Pollen, Total Organic Carbon (Toe) and Total Nitrogen
(Tn) Analyses of Cored Sediments From Lake Nojiri, Central
Japan ........................................................... 1
Fujio Kumon, Sayuri Kawai and Yoshio Inouchi
Absolute Chronology of Archaeological and Paleoenvironmental
Records from the Japanese Islands, 40-15 ka BP ................. 13
Yuichiro Kudo
Terrestrial Mammal Faunas in the Japanese Islands during OIS
3 and OIS 2 .................................................... 33
Yoshinari Kawamura and Ryohei Nakagawa
A New OIS 2 and OIS 3 Terrestrial Mammal Assemblage on Miyako
Island (Ryukyus), Japan ........................................ 55
Ryohei Nakagawa, Yoshinari Kawamura, Shin Nunami,
Minora Yoneda, Motomasa Namiki and Yasuyuki Shibata
Taphonomy of Vertebrate Remains from Funakubu Second Cave in
Okinawa Island, Japan .......................................... 65
Shin Nunami and Ryohei Nakagawa
Formative History of Terrestrial Fauna of the Japanese
Islands during the Plio-Pleistocene ............................ 73
Keiichi Takahashi and Masami Izuho
Some Issues on the Origin of Microblade Industries in
Northeast Asia during OIS2 ..................................... 87
Anatoly Kuznetsov
Re-evaluation of the Chronology and Technology of
Palaeolithic Assemblages in the Imjin-Hantan River Area,
Korea .......................................................... 99
Yongwook Yoo
The Upper Paleolithic of Hokkaido: Current Evidence and Its
Geochronological Framework .................................... 109
Masami Izuho, Fumito Akai, Yuichi Nakazawa and Akira
Iwase
Pioneer Phase of Obsidian Use in the Upper Palaeolithic and
the Emergence of Modern Human Behavior in the Japanese
Islands ....................................................... 129
Kazutaka Shimada
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