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StageFR
Project No.14200084
Project NameLong-term Sustainability through Place-Based, Small-Scale Economies: Approaches from Historical Ecology
Abbreviated TitleSmall-Scale Economies
Project LeaderHABU, Junko
Research AxisProgram 1: Societal Transformation under Environmental Change / Resources
URLhttp://www.chikyu.ac.jp/fooddiversity/index.html
Key WordsSmall-Scale Economy; Diversity; Networks; Local Autonomy; Long-term Sustainability; North Pacific Rim

　

○Research Subject and Objectives

(1) OBJECTIVES

     This project examines the importance of place-based, small-scale and diversified economies, particularly the importance of small-scale food production, for the long-term sustainability of human societies. For the purposes of this project, a “small-scale economy” is defined not solely on the basis of the absolute size of the economic unit, but rather in terms of the relative scale of food production within a given socioeconomic context. Our definition of small-scale economy addresses the range of local or regional networks that enable production, circulation and consumption without precluding links to the outside economy. Long-term sustainability can be defined as “the capacity of humans to create, test out, and maintain abilities to adapt to environments” over a span of several hundred to several thousand years. Our working hypothesis was as follows:

Highly specialized subsistence (i.e., food production) strategies can support a larger community for a short period, but a decrease in subsistence and food diversity makes the production system and its associated community more vulnerable in the long-run. 

Archaeological and paleoenvironmental studies are used to test this hypothesis, or to examine the long-term impacts of the loss of subsistence/food diversity in relation to other environmental and cultural factors. To link these studies with the current discussion of the scale and methods of alternative food systems, ethnographic and ecological studies of contemporary small-scale food systems and communities were conducted. In combination, studies of the past and present point towards the future, as our research process also involves informing the collaborative design of ecologically sound and equitable food systems.

     The theoretical genesis of this project is the approach of historical ecology, which conducts comprehensive research into long-term and short-term cultural change while emphasizing the impact of human activities on the environment. In particular, this project proposes that high levels of diversity, network and local autonomy, all of which are strongly correlated with the scale of the system, are the keys to achieving the long-term sustainability of socioeconomic systems. By integrating case studies on food diversity, the mobility of people, goods and information and the initiatives of local stakeholders in relation to the scale and resilience of societies and economies, this study aims to advance theories on the interrelationship between culture and environment, including climate change. Other cultural factors, including technological developments, sociopolitical structure and rituals/religion, are also taken into consideration. We are publishing the results of our research as peer-reviewed articles as well as volumes for the general public in both English and Japanese.

 

(2) BACKGROUND

     This research aims to construct strategies for tackling global environmental problems associated with the rise of large-scale economic systems. These global environmental problems addressed by this project include soil and water contamination, a decrease in biodiversity and long-lasting damage to ecosystems caused by large and homogenized food production. In the case of agriculture, the development of large-scale mono culture with applications of a large amount of pesticides and chemical fertilizers has resulted in serious soil contamination, water pollution, loss of biodiversity, and even the destruction of whole ecosystems. The predominant measures to deal with these global environmental problems are top-down regulations enacted by national/local governments and international agencies. However, these regulations may not be sufficient when we consider long-term environmental effects on a time-span of hundreds or thousands of years. As an alternative approach, this project examines the past and present practice of place-based, smaller-scale food production systems, evaluates their advantages and limitations, and explores their future potential.

 

(3) GEOGRAPHIC FOCUS

     Geographically, our project focuses on the North Pacific Rim. In particular, we identified northern Japan, with its solid archaeological record and its importance to contemporary food production in Japan, as the core area of our field research. The west coast of North America, with rich traditions of ethnographic and ecological investigation as well as active contemporary food/agriculture movements, provided the main comparative case studies.  These two regions share a number of characteristics in common, including climate, vegetation, fauna, and a high level of seismic activity. There are also cultural ties with historical depth as a result of the migration of anatomically modern humans after the late Pleistocene. Historically, the abundance of small-scale economies supported by marine food exploitation and intensive nut-collecting also characterize these two regions. 

 

(4) RESEARCH METHODS AND ORGANIZATION 

        The project consists of three research groups: (1) the Longue-Durée Group, (2) the Contemporary Society Group and (3) the Implementation, Outreach and Policy Proposal Group:

Group I. Longue-Durée Group: Archaeological, historical and paleoenvironmental studies were used to test our working hypothesis listed above. The core case study of this group examines the mechanisms of the growth and decline of the Middle Jomon culture in northeastern Japan, with a focus on changes in food and subsistence diversity, settlement size, and rituals. Additional sub-projects were conducted to understand the broader contexts of this core case study and to develop new methodologies (particularly chemical and scientific analyses) for future archaeological studies for the region. Key comparative studies in this group come from the west coast of North America (California, the Northwest Coast), and Canadian Arctic.

Group II. Contemporary Society Group: Ethnographic, sociological and agroecological studies of small-scale food production systems and their associated communities were conducted to understand the complex inter-relationships among cultural and natural contributors in contemporary urban and natural settings. The core component of this group is the ethnographic study of rural communities and small-scale food production units in Iwate and Fukushima Prefectures in northern Japan, with a focus on the importance of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK), material culture and social networks. Key comparative studies in this research group come from California and the Northwest Coast.

Group III. Implementation, Outreach and Policy Proposal Group: The ultimate goal of this research group is to make actionable contributions to local/national policies of rural/urban development and food policy. The core component of this group is a series of outreach activities and educational programs that have been developed on the basis of our research in Iwate Prefecture in collaboration with the two other RIHN-based projects (The Nissei project along the Hei River, and a NIHU project on resilience against disasters). Outreach and policy suggestion efforts also extend to the revitalization of indigenous communities and their identities in Hokkaido, California and Alaska, as well as actions through the 8th World Archaeological Congress in Kyoto, summer 2016 and collaborations with IHOPE (Integrated History and Futures of People on Earth). 

     In conclusion, this project has tested and modified the original working hypothesis through more than 50 sub-projects and case studies, clustered into three groups, each with a major focus on northern Japan, and informed by several comparative case studies. Results are already informing policy formulation, as well as making substantive and original contributions to scholarship in the relevant areas.

○Progress and Results in 2019

Major outcomes of this research project include the following: 

Research results of the Group I demonstrated the relevance of past case studies in the current discussion of long-term sustainability of human-environmental interactions. 

Our project started with a hypothesis emphasising the correlations between food diversity, systems’ long-term sustainability and the scale of economy/community,but our results also indicate the importance of social networks, local autonomy and traditional ecological knowledge which are often embedded in rituals and religions, local and individual identities, repetitive human actions reflected in the material culture, and traces of human impacts on the environment in relation to biodiversity. All these aspects were studied by both Groups I&II.

While the project duration (3 years) was too short to finalize all the action plans proposed by Group III, quite a number of sub-projects implemented new practices, held over a dozen outreach workshops, and made multiple statements that can be used for concrete policy proposals. 

Through a series of international workshops/meetings, we were able to make theoretical contributions to the broader interdisciplinary discussion of local and global environmental problems, food production, demography and social inequality in the past,present and future.

Results of our project proved that transdisciplinarity is critical to understand the context of our research and to implement action plans on the basis of our research results. Stakeholders with which we collaborated include small-scale food producers, members of Native American Tribes, local NPOs/NGOs and local politicians.


SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF EACH WORKING GROUP

I. Longue-DuréeGroup

Primary Focus: Early-Middle Jomon (ca.4000-2300 BC) in Northeastern Japan: Using archaeological indicators of food/subsistence diversity, demography, rituals, social inequality, climate change and other socioeconomic/environmental factors, this team tested our main hypothesis with data primarily from the Tohoku region (northern Honshu) and Hokkaido, as well as from the Kanto and Chubu regions (central Honshu).  Newly obtained AMS 14C dates confirmed that changes in food/subsistence diversity and settlement patterns occurred at around 3000 BC, 700 years before a major cooling climate hit the area at around 2300 BC (the Bond 3 event). Thus, contrary to previous interpretations suggested by several scholars, our results indicate that the Bond 3 event was not the cause of the population decrease at the end of the Middle Jomon.

Key Comparative Studies: Unlike the Japanese Jomon case,examples from California and the Northwest Coast of North America indicate that wide food diversity allowed native communities in these regions to steadily increase in population through time until European contact.  On the contrary, our case study from the Canadian Arctic indicates that the loss of food diversity with a focus on bowhead whaling was followed by a rapid population decrease. 


II. Contemporary Society Group

Primary Focus: Rural Communities in Northern Japan: Three areas in northern Japan were chosen to be our main field sites: the Hei River Area (Miyako City, Iwate Prefecture), the Joboji Area (Ninohe City, Iwate Prefecture), and Fukushima Prefecture.

     Our interviews of elders, farmers, fishermen, forest industry practitioners and others in the Hei River Area indicate that food/subsistence diversity supported by traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) play a critical role in the resilience of food systems and communities. TEK and local networks have proven to be especially important in cases of floods, typhoons, earthquakes and other disasters. In the mountainous part of this area, depopulation is a particularly serious problem, and large-scale land development plans with anticipated serious environmental damage threaten small-scale food producers. Results of our Hei Project will be published through Tokai University Press, for which we have obtained a book contract.

     Our second key field site is Joboji. Subsistence practices in Joboji share a number of things in common with that of the mountainous part of the Hei River Area. Recently, Joboji began to be known as the only place in Japan where small-scale traditional lacquer-sap-collecting is still alive and commercially viable. Our interviews of lacquer sap collectors, entrepreneurs, and co-owners of a small-scale farmers’ market indicate that, historically, multiple backup plans supported by wide subsistence diversity and TEK are at the core of their strategies for survival.

     At our third key field site, Fukushima, we anticipated that the magnitude of the environmental damage caused by the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Plant Accident may have been too large to test our hypothesis of the importance of food diversity, social networks and TEK. Contrary to our expectation, however, our interviews of farmers in Fukushima revealed the critical importance of TEK and local networks for maintaining residents’ identity and pride.

Key Comparative Studies: For comparative studies, two other types of small-scale communities and groups on both sides of the North Pacific Rim we reexamined: indigenous small-scale communities, including Native American tribes in California, and alternative food producers, including organic farmers and practitioners of agroecology. Our research indicates the importance of TEK and social networks in maintaining resilient socioeconomic systems within local landscapes/seascapes. Our studies also revealed critical historical differences between Japan and North America, particularly in that Japanese contemporary small-scale food production systems tend to be rooted in rural communities that have never fully accepted large-scale operations, while small-scale food production movements in North America have emerged either as a resurgence of indigenous movements, or in response to currently dominant large-scale operations.


III. Implementation, Outreach and Policy Proposal Group

Main Focus: Hei River Area: Informed by the results of Group II’s research, a team of project members developed academic and public outreach programs for instigating and promoting the importance of food/subsistence diversity, TEK and local identity. A series of workshops for the local residents were held in summer 2016 in the upper, middle and lower reaches of the Hei River. Archaeological knowledge about the use of wild food, as well as signatures of human actions on material culture and landscapes, was also incorporated into these workshops. These workshops were planned in consultation with resident researchers and the City Board of Education.

Other Main Outcomes: Other notable outcomes of this research group include a Kyoto 2016 Agroecology Declaration, University classes on agroecology at the Univ. of California and Seika Univ., a WAC (World Archaeological Congress) Resolution about resource overexploitation, and transdisciplinary research with Native American tribes. These research activities are being conducted in consultations with members of IHOPE(Integrated History and Futures of People on Earth), and our project is featured as an IHOPE regional case study.

○Project Members

◎ HABU, Junko ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Professor,Project Leader )

《Longue-Durée Group》

ABE, Chiharu ( Dept. of Environment and Public Affairs, Hokkaido Government,Special Researcher,Archaeology )

ADACHI, Kaori ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Researcher,Japanese Archaeology )

AGARWAL, Sabrina ( Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,Associate Professor,Bio-Archaeology )

○ AMES, Kenneth ( Dept. of Anthropology, Portland State University,Professor Emeritus,Archaeology, Environmental Anthropology )

CRAIG, Oliver ( Dept. of Archaeology, University of York,Associate Professor,Biological Archaeology )

CRAWFORD, Gary ( Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto,Professor,Paleo-Ethnobotany )

CREMA, Enrico R. ( McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge,Research Fellow,Archaeology )

CUTHRELL, Rob ( Dept. of Anthropology, Aechaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley,Post-doctoral Researcher,Archaeology )

ERTL, John ( Foreign Language Education Center, Kanazawa University,Associate Professor,Cultural Anthropology )

○ FITZHUGH, Ben ( Dept. of Anthropology, University of Washington,Associate Professor,Archaeology, Historical Ecology, Evolutionary Ecology )

GIBBS, Kevin ( Dept. of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,Visiting Assistant Professor,Archaeology )

GRIER, Colin ( Dept. of Anthropology, Washington State University,Associate Professor,North-Pacific Archaeology )

HERON, Carl ( British Museum,Director of Scientific Research,Isotope Analysis )

INANO, Yusuke ( Former member of the Board of Education of Kitakami City,Archaeology )

ITO, Yumiko ( Aomori Prefecture History Editing Section, Dept. of Environment and Public Affairs, Aomori Prefectural Government,Paleo-Ethnobotany, Jomon Archaeology )

JANIK, Liliana ( Dept. of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge,Assistant Director in Research,Humanities )

KAMIJO, Nobuhiko ( Faculty of Humanities, Cultural Properties, Hirosaki University,Associate Professor,Archaeology )

KANER, Simon ( Centre for Archaeology and Heritage, Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Arts and Cultures,Head,Japanese Archaeology )

KANNO, Tomonori ( Archaeological Research Office, Tohoku University,Specially Appointed Associate Professor,Japanese Archaeology )

KAWAHATA, Hodaka ( Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo,Professor,Marine Geochemistry )

KOIWA, Naoto ( Faculty of Education, Hirosaki University,Professor,Geography )

KOMIYA, Hajime ( The Graduate University for Advanced Studies,Visiting Researcher,Zooarchaeology )

KRIGBAUM, John ( Department of Anthropology, University of Florida,Associate Professor,Bioarchaeology, Stable Isotope Analysis )

KUSAKA, Soichiro ( Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka,Researcher,Physical Anthropology )

○ LIGHTFOOT, Kent ( Dept of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,Professor,Archaeology, Historical Ecology, Cultural Ecology )

LIU, Li ( Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University,Professor,Paleo-ethnobotany, East Asian Archaeology )

MADELLA, Marco ( Dept. of Humanities, Pompeu Fabra University,Professor,Paleo-Environmental Study, Archaeobotany )

MAHER, Lisa ( Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,Assistant Professor,Archaeology )

NAKAMURA, Oki ( Ritsumeikan Global Innovation Research Organization Ritsumeikan University,Professional Researcher,Japanese Archaeology )

NARA, Takashi ( Faculty of Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare,Professor,Physical Anthropology )

NELSON, Peter ( Dept of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley,Ph.D. Candidate,Indigenous Archaeology, Paleoethnobotany, Historical Ecology )

NEGISHI, Yo ( Institute for Asian Studies and Regional Collaboration, Akita International University,Assistant Professor,Japanese Archaeology )

NISHIDA, Yasutami ( Niigata Prefectural Museum,Manager,Japanese Archaeology )

OHKI, Saori ( Educational Board of Niiza City,Specialist,Archaeology )

ONISHI, Tomokazu ( Dept. of Humanistic and Cultural Science, International University of Kagoshima,Professor,Archaeology )

○ OWENS, Mio Katayama ( College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley,Special Assistant to the Dean,Anthropology of Food, Applied Anthropology )

POPOV, Alexander N. ( Scientific Museum, Far Eastern Federal University,Director,Archaeology )

SATO, Takao ( Faculty of Literature, Keio University,Professor,Zoo-Archaeology )

○ SAVELLE, James ( Dept. of Anthropology, McGill University,Associate Professor,Archaeology, Environmental Anthropology )

SAWADA, Junmei ( Faculty of Medical Technology, Niigata University of Health and Welfare,Associate Professor,Humanities )

SAWAURA, Ryohei ( Graduate School of Dentistry, Tohoku University,Ph.D. student,Zooarchaeology )

SCHECHNER, Grant ( Group in Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley,MA student,Archaeology )

SHINKAI, Rika ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Researcher,Zooarchaeology )

TABAREV, Andrei ( Russian Science of Academy,Senior Research Scientist,Russian Archaeology )

TAKASE, Katsunori ( Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University,Professor of Archaeology,Archaeology )

WEBER, Andrzej ( Dept. of Anthropology, University of Alberta,Professor,East Asian Archaeology )

○ WEBER, Steve ( Dept. of Anthropology, Washington State University, Vancouver,Professor,Paleo-Ethnobotany, Environmental Archaeology )

YAMAMOTO, Naoto ( Faculty of Literature, Nagoya University,Professor,Japanese Archaeology )

○ YONEDA, Minoru ( University Museum, The University of Tokyo,Professor,Isotope Ecology )

YOSHIDA, Akihiro ( Faculty of Law, Economics and Humanities, Kagoshima University,Associate Professor,Paleo-climatology )

YOSHIDA, Yasuyuki ( Center for Cultural Resource Studies, Kanazawa University,Visiting Associate Professor,Japanese Archaeology )

《Contemporary Society Group》

BALÉE, William Lockert ( School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University,Professor,Historical Ecology )

FAWCETT, Clare ( Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology,St. Francis Xavier University,Associate Professor,Cultural Anthropology )

FUKUNAGA, Mayumi ( Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo,Associate Professor,Cultural Anthropology )

GOTO, Nobuyo ( Dept. of Pharmacy, Ohu University,Lecturer,Political Economy )

GOTO, Yasuo ( Dept. of Economics, Fukushima University,Specially Appointed Professor,Political Economy )

HAMADA, Shingo ( Faculty of Liberal Arts, Osaka Shoin Women's University,Full-time Lecturer,Environmental Anthropology )

○ HOSOYA, Leo Aoi ( Centre for Global Human Resource Development, Ochanomizu University,Lecturer,Paleo-Ethnobotany, Cultural Anthropology )

○ IKEYA, Kazunobu ( National Museum of Ethnology,Professor,Cultural Anthropology )

ITO, Yumiko ( Aomori Prefecture History Editing Section, Dept. of Environment and Public Affairs, Aomori Prefectural Government,Paleo-Ethnobotany, Jomon Archaeology )

JOHNSTON, Barbara ( Action Research Policy Initiative, Center for Political Ecology,Director,Environmental Anthropology )

○ NAITO, Daisuke ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,FS Researcher,Political Ecology )

NAKAHARA, Satoe ( Institute of Social Sciences, Chukyo University,Specially Appointed Researcher,Cultural Anthropology )

○ OWENS, Mio Katayama ( College of Natural Resources, University of California, Berkeley,Associate Professor,Anthropology of Food, Applied Anthropology )

○ SLATER, David H. ( Faculty of Liberal Art, Sophia University,Associate Professor,Cultural Anthropology )

SCHNEIDER, Tsim ( Dept. of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz,Associate Professor,Archaeology )

STERNSDORFF-CISTERNA，Nicolas S. ( Dept. of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University,Assistant Professor,Food Culture, Seismology, Sociology )

TAKAHASHI, Satsuki ( Faculty of Sustainability Studies, Hosei University,Associate Professor,Environmental Anthropology )

THORNTON, Thomas ( Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford,Associate Professor,Social and Cultural Anthropology )

YAMAGUCHI, Tomiko ( College of Liberal Arts, International Christian University,Professor,Sociology )

YUMOTO, Takakazu ( Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University,Professor,Ecology )

《Implementation, Outreach and Policy Proposal Group》

○ ALTIERI, Miguel ( Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley,Professor,Agroecology )

ARIGA, Keisaku ( Tokyo Uniersity of Marine Science and Technology,Graduate Student,Marine Science, Ecoliteracy )

□ CAPRA, Fritjof ( Center for Ecoliteracy,Chair of the Board of Directors,Physics )

CUTHRELL, Rob ( Dept. of Anthropology, Aechaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley,Post-doctoral Researcher,Archaeology )

FUJISAWA, Ryo ( Tokyo Uniersity of Marine Science and Technology,Graduate Student,Marine Science, Ecoliteracy )

IIZUKA, Noriko ( Graduate School of Policy and Management, Doshisha University,Ph.D.Student,Environmental Policy and Management )

MATZEN, Sarick ( Dep.of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley,Post-doctoral Researcher,Environmental Ecology )

MIZUTANI, Shimon ( Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology,Ph.D. Student,Environmental Ecology )

MOTONO, Ichiro ( Kyoto Seika University,Part-time Lecturer,Agriculture, Social Movement )

○ NILES, Daniel ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Associate Professor,Human Environmental Geography )

PALLUD, Céline ( Dep.of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, University of California,Associate Professor,Environmental Ecology )

○ SASAKI, Tsuyoshi ( Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology,Associate Professor,Marine Science, Ecoliteracy )

SAWAGUCHI, Kayo ( NPO APAST,Assistant Director,Media presentation )

《Research Support》

KOBAYASHI, Yuko ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Research Associate )

OJIKA, Yukari ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Research Associate )

TAKEHARA, Mari ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Research Associate )

TOMII, Noriko ( Research Institute for Humanity and Nature,Project Research Associate )

○Future Themes

Books

【Authored/Co-authored】

・Alessa, Lilian, Colin Grier, et al 2015,05 Best Practices for Integrating Social Sciences into Social Ecological Systems Science: Future Directions for Building a More Resilient America . Center for Resilient Communities, University of Idaho, 50pp.

・Balée, William 2013,08 Cultural Forests of the Amazon: A Historical Ecology of People and Their Landscapes. University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA, 288pp.

・Habu, Junko, John W. Olsen and Peter Lape 2017 Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology. . Springer, New York, NY (In press)

・Habu, Junko, Tsuyoshi Sasaki and Mayumi Fukunaga Environmental Education and Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Case Studies from the Hei River Valley, Miyako City. Tokai University Press, Tokyo, 272pp. (in Japanese) (In preparation; book contract obtained from the publisher)

・Sasaki, Tsuyoshi 2014,09 Nihon no Kaiyou Shigen: Naze Sekaiga Me wo Tsukerunoka (Japan's Ocean Resource: Why It Catches the World's Attention). Shodensha, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 256pp. (in Japanese)

・Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas Food after Fukushima: Scientific Citizenship and Risk in Japan. University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, HI, USA (in Japanese) (Under contract)

【Chapters/Sections】

・Fitzhugh, Ben 2016,09 Origins and Development of Arctic Maritime Adaptations in the Western Subarctic. Friesen, M. and Mason, O. (ed.) Oxford Handbook on Arctic Archaeology. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.　.

・Goto, Yasuo 2014,05 Hurricane Katrina no Shougeki to New Orleans no Mirai -Saigai wo Meguru Global na Taikou- (Impacts of Hurricane Katrina and the Future of New Orleans: Global Responses to Disaster). Fukushima University Disaster Restoration Studies Team (ed.) Restoring and Revitalizing from Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and International Comparison. Hassakusha, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, pp.179-197. (in Japanese)

・Grier, Colin Expanding Notions of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity: Identifying Core Organizational Principles and Practices in Coast Salish Societies of the Northwest Coast of North America. Warren, G. and B. Finlayson (ed.) Diversity of Hunter-Gatherer Pasts. Oxbow Press, Oxford, UK. (in Japanese) (In press)

・Grier, Colin and Bill Angelbeck 2015,08 Tradeoffs in Coast Salish Social Action: Balancing Autonomy, Inequality and Sustainability.” Ed. . . . . Cambridge, England. (Currently under review) . Michell Hegmon (ed.) Tradeoffs in Archaeology. Cambridge World Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. (Currently under review)

・Habu, Junko 2016,03 Shoku no Tayosei to Bunka no Seisui (Food Diversity and the Growth and Decline of the Jomon Culture). Kem’ichi Kobayashi (ed.) Jomon Jidai no Shoku to Sumai (Food and Houses during the Jomon Period). Doseisha, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, pp.1-25. (in Japanese)

・Hosoya, Aoi 2014,01 Seigyou Fukugen no Tameno Shokubutsu Izontai Bunseki (Paleobotanical Analysis to Reconstruct Subsistence). Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (ed.) Manual for Research of the Environment: Measurement, Presentation, Interpretation. Asakura shoten, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, pp.66-67. (in Japanese)

・Hosoya, Leo Aoi 2016,05 Traditional Raised-Floor Granary and Rice Production Cycle in Bali: Past, Present, and Future of Balinese Agriculture. Petr Konvalina (ed.) Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Alternative Crops and Cropping Systems. InTech, Rijeka, Croatia, pp.47-69.

・Kanno, Tomonori 2014,08 Kitakamigawa Chuuryuuiki ni Okeru Jomon Jidai Chuuki Kouhan Shuuraku Iseki no Tokuchou (Characteristics of the Settlement in the Latter Half of the Middle Jomon Period in the middle reaches of Kitakami river, Japan Household Assemblages of Middle-Late Jomon Period). Anzai, M., and Masahiro Fukuda, M (ed.) Kanshinsei no Kikouhendou to Jomon Bunka (Climate Change in the Holocene and Change in Jomon Cultures). Center for Tohoku Cultural Studies at the Tohoku University of Arts and Design, Yamagata, pp.9-31. (in Japanese)

・Matsui, Akira 2014,05 Shuryou no Taishou (Hunting game). Izumi, T., and Imamura, K. (ed.) Jomon Jidai (Ge) (Jomon Period (Second Volume)). The Archaeology of Japan Lecture Series 4. Aoki Shoten, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, pp.3-35. (in Japanese)

・Naito, Daisuke 2016,03 Senju Minzoku no Seikatsu to Shinrin Ninsho (Lifeways of Indigenous People and Forest Certification). Reiko Omoto, Tetsu Sato and Daisuke Naito (ed.) Kokusai Shigen Kanri Ninsho Seido (International Certification Systems for Resource Management). University of Tokyo Press, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, pp.167-182. (in Japanese)

・Naito, Daisuke 2017 Forest Certification, Legality and Social Standards in Sarawak, Malaysia. Ishikawa, Noboru (ed.) Anthropogenic Tropical Forests: Resilience of Post-Development Nature and Society. Springer. (In press)　

・Oishi, Takanori 2014,03 Fish as Pathogen, Fish as Medicine: Symbolic Interactions between the Bakwele Fisher-farmers and Freshwater Fishes in Southeastern Cameroon. Nakamura, R. and Inai, H. (ed.) Afro-eurasian Inner Dry Land Civilizations Collection 9: African Fishermen World. Comparative Studies of Humanities and Social Sciences, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University, Nagoya, pp.233-252. (in Japanese)

・Onishi, Tomokazu 2015,03 An estimation of the structure of the Nakadake Sanroku Sue Kiln Site Cluster at Minami-Satsuma, Kagoshima. Naoko Nakamura・Maria Shinoto (ed.) Study of the Nakadake Sanroku Sue Kiln Site Cluster. Kagoshima. DOI:49

・Thornton, Thomas F. and Nadezhda Mamontova 2017 Hunter-Gatherers and Fishing Rights in Alaska and Siberia: Contemporary Governmentality, Subsistence, and Sustainable Enterprises. V. Reyes-García and A. Pyhälä (ed.) Hunter-Gatherers in a Changing World. . (In press) 　

・Thornton, Thomas F. and Shingo Hamada Completing Herring Circle in Restoring Pacific Rim Herring Cultures. Nobuhiro Kishigami and David Koester (ed.) Senri Ethnological Studies. National Museum of Ethnology, Suita-City, Osaka. (In review)

・Wilson, Douglas C., Kenneth M. Ames, and Cameron M. Smith 2016 Contextualizing the Chinook at Contact: the Middle Village. Christine Beaule (ed.) In Frontiers of Colonialism. University of Florida Press, Gainesville, FL.

【Translations / Joint Translations】

・Bong Won KANG 2016,11 일본 조몬 고고학. 사회평론, South Korea, 346pp. (in Korean) Translation of Junko Habu Ancient Jomon of Japan. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 332pp.

Editing

【Editing / Co-editing】

・Habu, Junko, Yumiko Ito and Kaori Adachi (ed.) 2016,03 Excavation Report of the Goshizawa Matsumori No.4 Site, Aomori City. , 76pp. (in Japanese)

・Ikeya, Kazunobu and Robert K. Hitchcock (ed.) 2016,12 Hunter-Gatherers and their Neighbors in Asia, Africa, and South America. National Museum of Ethnology, Suita-City, Osaka, 298pp.

Papers

【Original Articles】

・Habu, J. 2018,11 Jomon Food Diversity, Climate Change and Long-term Sustainability: What I Have Learned by Doing Archaeological and Ethnographic Studies in Japan. The SAA Archaeological Record 18(4):27-30.

・Adachi, Kaori 2015,04 Analysis of Jomon Pottery from the 1964 Excavation of Location B of the Saibana Shell-Midden, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Shigaku:569-599. (In Japanese)

・Adachi, Kaori, Saori Oki, Yuichi Mori and Junko Habu 2017 Insect larvae impressions on pottery excavated from Middle and Late Jomon sites in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Nippon. (in Japanese) (In press)

・Altieri, M. and Nicholls, C. 2015,05 Agroecology and the design of climate change resilient farming systems. Agronomy for Sustainable Development.

・Altieri, Miguel, Clara Nicholls and Rene Montalba 2017,02 Technological Approaches to Sustainable Agriculture at a Crossroads: An Agroecological Perspective. Sustainability 9(3). DOI:10.3390/su9030349

・Ames, Kenneth. M., M.P. Richards, C.F. Speller, D. Y. Yang, R. L. Lyman, and V.L. Butler 2015,05 Stable isotope and ancient DNA analysis of dog remains from Cathlapotle (45CL1), a contact-era site on the Lower Columbia River. Journal of Archaeological Science 57:268-282. DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2015.02.038

・Angelbeck, B. and Grier, C. 2014,01 From Paradigms to Practices: Pursuing Horizontal and Long-Term Relationships with Indigenous Peoples for Archaeological Heritage. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 38(2):519-540.

・Bronk, Ramsey C., Schulting, R., Goriunova O.I., Bazaliiskii, V.I., Weber, A.W. 2014 Analyzing radiocarbon reservoir offsets through stable nitrogen isotopes and Bayesian modeling: A case study using paired human and faunal remains from the Cis-Baikal region, Siberia. DOI:10.2458/56.17160

・Cooper, Kory, Kenneth M. Ames and Loren Davis 2015,11 Cooper and Prestige in the Greater Lower Columbia Region, Northwestern North America. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 49(2):143-166. (In press)

・Crema, E., Habu, J., Kobayashi, K., Madella, M. 2016,04 Summed Probability Distribution of 14C Dates Suggests Regional Divergences in the Population Dynamics of the Jomon Period in Eastern Japan. PLOS One. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154809 (reviewed).

・Dolan, Patrick, Colin Grier, Katie Simon and Christine Markussen Magnetic gradient survey of the Marpole Period Dionisio Point (DgRv-003) plankhouse village, Northwest Coast of North America. Journal of Field Archaeology. (reviewed). (In press)

・Fukunaga, Mayumi 2014,12 Close to Home: Why Field Research Methods in Environmental Sociology and Sustainability Still Matter. Journal of Environmental Sociology 20. (in Japanese)

・Gakuhari, T., Komiya, H., Sawada, J., Anezaki, T., Sato, T., Kobayashi K., Ito, S., Kobayashi, K., Matsuzaki, H., Yoshida, K. and Yoneda, M 2015,08 Radiocarbon dating of one human and two dog burials from the Kamikuroiwa rock shelter site, Ehime Prefecture. Anthropological Science 123(2):87-94. DOI:10.1537/ase.150309 (reviewed).

・Grier, Colin 2014 Landscape Construction, Ownership and Social Change in the Southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 38(1):211-249.

・Grier, Colin 2014 Which Way Forward? [Introduction to Special Section]. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 38(1):135-139.

・Grier, Colin 2015,12 Past Perspectives and Recent Developments in the Archaeology of the Northwest Coast. Cultura Antiqua 67:45-46. (reviewed).

・Grier, Colin, Lilian Alessa and Andrew Kliskey 2017 Looking to the Past to Shape the Future: A Paleoecological-paleosocial Synthesis for Addressing Social-ecological Change and Sustainability. Regional Environmental Change. (In press)

・Habu, Junko 2014,04 Post-Pleistocene Transformations of Hunter-Gatherers in East Asia: The Jomon and Chulmun. Cummings, V・Jordan, P・Zvelebil, M (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp.507-520. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199551224.013.043

・Habu, Junko 2014,08 Early Sedentism in East Asia: From Late Palaeolithic to Early Agricultural Societies in Insular East Asia. . Renfrew, C.,Bahn, P. (ed.) Handbook of World Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp.724-741.

・Habu, Junko 2015,10 Mechanisms of Long-term Culture Change and Human Impacts on the Environment: A Perspective from Historical Ecology, with Special Reference to the Early and Middle Jomon Periods of Prehistoric Japan . The Quaternary Research 54 :299-310. (in Japanese) (reviewed). 　https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jaqua/54/5/54_299/_pdf

・Habu, Junko 2016,09 Food Diversity and Climate Change: Lessons from the Early and Middle Jomon Periods, Japan. Quarterly of Archaeological Studies 63(2). (in Japanese) (reviewed).

・Habu, Junko 2017,01 Jomon Food Diversity and Environmental Change. Kagaku 87(2). (in Japanese)

・Hamada, Shingo 2015 Kitakantaiheiyo ni okeru Rekishiseitaigaku no Kanosei: Nishin o Jirei to Shite (The Potential of Historical Ecology in the North Pacific Rim Area: A Case of Herring Studies). Hokkaido Minzokugaku (Hokkaido Ethnography) 11:15-28. (in Japanese)

・Hamada, Shingo 2015,07 Ainu Geographic Names and a Multiethnic History of Coastal Hokkaido. Canadian Journal of Native Studies 35(2):43-58. (reviewed).

・Hamada, Shingo 2016,03 Kankitataiheiyo no Gyoran Riyo to Shokubunka: Engan Tringitto Shakai ni okeru Nishin tono Kankei kara (Fish Roe Use and Food Cultures in the North Pacific Rim: A Case Study of Tlingit Tribe and Herring). Arctic Circle 98:14-17. (in Japanese)

・Hamada, Shingo., Richard Wilk, Amanda Logan, Sara Minard, and Amy Trubek 2015,03 The Future of Food Studies. Food, Society & Culture 18(1):168-186. (reviewed).

・Heron, Carl, Junko Habu, Mio K. Owens, Yumiko Ito, Yvette Eley, Alexandre Lucquoin, Anita Randini, Hayley Saul, Cynthianne D. Spitteri and Oliver Craig 2016,08 Molecular and Isotopic Investigations of Pottery and 'Charred Remains' from Sannai Maruyama and Sannai Maruyama No.9, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Japanese Journal of Archaeology 4(1):29-52. (reviewed). 　http://www.jjarchaeology.jp/contents/pdf/vol004/4-1_029.pdf

・Hopt, Justin and Colin Grier 2017 Continuity amidst Change: Village Organization and Fishing Subsistence at the Dionisio Point Locality in coastal southern British Columbia. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. DOI:10.1080/15564894.2016.1257526 (reviewed).

・Hosoya, Leo Aoi 2014,03 The “Routine-scape” and Social Structurarization in the Formation of Japanese Agricultural Society. Geografisca Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 96(1):67-82.

・Hosoya, Aoi 2016,01 Rethinking Prehistoric Wild Nuts Processing: Towards Global Comparative Ethnoarchaeology. Kobai 138:1-38. (in Japanese)

・Itahashi, Y., Chikaraishi, Y., Ohkouchi, N., and Yoneda, M. 2014,06 Refinement of reconstructed ancient food webs based on the nitrogen isotopic compositions of amino acids from bone collagen: A case study of archaeological herbivores from Tell Ain el-Kerkh, Syria. Geochemical Journal 48:15-19. DOI:10.2343/geochemj.2.0318 (reviewed).

・Johnston, Barbara Rose and Takala, Brooke 2016,09 Environmental Disaster and Resilience - The Marshall Islands Story Continues to Unfold. Cultural Survival Quarterly 40(3). 　https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/environmental-disaster-and-resilience-marshall-islands-0

・Kaneko, Nobuhiro 2015,10 How Do Soil Animals Bring Out the Functioning of Soil Microorganisms?. The Journal of Japanese Society of Soil Microbiology "Tsuchi to Biseibutsu" 69(2):87-92. (in Japanese)

・Kaneko, Nobuhiro 2015,11 How to Cope with Soil Biodiversity?. Kagaku 85(11):1091-1096. (in Japanese)

・Kawahata, H., Matsuoka, M., Togami, A., Harada, N., Murayama, M., Yokoyama, Y., Miyairi,Y., Matsuzaki, H., and Tanaka, Y. 2016,10 Climatic change and its influence on human society in western Japan during the Holocene. Quaternary International. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2016.04.013

・Kawahata, H., Yamashita, S., Yamaoka, K., Okai, T., Shimoda, G., and Imai, N. 2014,12 Heavy metal pollution in Ancient Nara, Japan, during the eighth century. Progress in Earth and Planetary Science 1:1-15. DOI:10.1186/2197-4284-1-15 (reviewed).

・Kemp Brian M, Cara Monroe, K. G. Judd, Erin Reams, and Colin Grier 2014,02 Evaluation of Methods that Subdue the Effects of Polymerase Chain Reaction Inhibitors in the Study of Ancient and Degraded DNA. Journal of Archaeological Science 42:373-380. DOI:10.1016/j.jas.2013.11.023

・Komiya, H., Sawada, J., Saeki, F. and T. Sato 2015,08 Morphological characteristics of buried dog remains excavated from the Kamikuroiwa Rock Shelter site, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Anthropological Science 123(3):73-85. DOI:10.1537/ase.150630 (reviewed).

・Kusaka, S. Nakano, T. 2014,03 Carbon and oxygen isotope ratios and their temperature dependence in carbonate and tooth enamel using GasBench II preparation device. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 28(5):563-567. DOI:10.1002/rcm.6799 (reviewed).

・Lightfoot, Kent G. and Rob Q. Cuthrell 2015,05 Anthropogenic Burning and the Anthropocene in Late Holocene California. The Holocene 25(10):1581-1587.

・MacInnes, Bre, Ben Fitzhugh, and Darryl Holman 2014,03 Controlling for landform age when determining the settlement history of the Kuril Islands. Geoarchaeology 29(3):185-201. DOI:10.1002/gea.21473

・Matzen, Sarick and Céline Pallud Effects of soil properties on arsenic uptake in P. vittata, an As-hyperaccumulating fern: a review. （予定）

・Momohara, Arata, Akihiro Yoshida, Yuichiro Kudo, Rika Nishiuchi, Susumu Okitsu 2016,10 Paleovegetation and climatic conditions in a refugium of temperate plants in central Japan in the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary International.

・Nakamura, Oki 2015,01 GIS ni yoru Bochi Bunseki; Jomon Banki no Tohoku Hokubu o Chushin ni (Burial Analysis Using the Geographic Information System: A Final Jomon Case Study from the Northern Tohoku Region). Kikan Kokogaku (Archaeology Quarterly) 130(76):78. (in Japanese)

・Niles, Daniel and Robin Roth 2016,05 Conservation of Traditional Agriculture as Living Knowledge Systems, Not Cultural Relics. Journal of Resources and Ecology 7(3):231-236.

・Onishi, Tomokazu, Kenji Kanegae 2015,03 A report of the excavation of near Teuchi Shell Midden in Satsuma Sendai, Kagoshima. Bulletin of The International University of Kagoshima Archaeological Museum 12:13-16. (in Japanese)

・Rorabaugh, Adam, Nichole Davenport and Colin Grier 2015,09 Characterizing Crystalline Volcanic Rock (CVR) Deposits from Galiano Island, B.C., Canada: Implications for Lithic Material Procurement at the Dionisio Point Locality. Journal of Archaeological Science Reports 3:591-602.

・Saeki, F., Adachi, N., Yoneda, M., Suzuki, T., Sawada, J., Kakuda, T., Masuyama, K., Ozaki, H., Omori, T., Hagihara, Y. and Nara, T. 2016,05 Analyzing the Final Jomon human remains from the Nonomae shellmound, Ofunato City, Iwate Prefecture. Anthropological Science (Japanese Series) 124(1):1-17. (in Japanese)

・Sasaki, Tsuyoshi 2015 Self-Awareness at International Pacific Marine Educators Conference 2014 Japan. The Journal of Marine Education 29(2):12 -17.

・Sasaki, Tsuyoshi 2016,06 Analysis of Dialog Processes at a Development Meeting for an Environmental Education Program to Emphasize the Forest-River-Ocean Relationship in Tsunami Disaster Areas. Journal of the Japanese Society for Environmental Education 26(1):15-25. (in Japanese)

・Sawaura, Ryohei, Akiko Yoshinaga and Takao Sato 2017,10 Saibana Kaizuka no Chojurui Itai to Kokkakukirui] Doshisha Daigaku Shozo Skazume Korekushon no Naiyo (Avial and Land Terrestrial Mammmals Excavated from the Saibana Shellmidden: A Study of the Sakazume Collection at Doshisha University). Bulletin of Doshisha University Historical Museum 20. (in Japanese) (Accepted for publication)

・Shimada, Kazutaka, Akihiro Yoshida, Jun Hashizume, Akira Ono 2016,10 Human responses to climate change on obsidian source exploitation during the Upper Paleolithic in the Central Highlands, central Japan . Quaternary International.

・Shinkai, Rika, Tomonori Kanno, Naoto Yamamoto, Junko Habu, Akira Matsui, Duncan McLaren and Dale R. Croes 2015,12 Excavation of a Prehistoric Wet Site on Triquet Island in British Columbia, Canada. Quarterly of Archaeological Studies 62(3):16-20. (in Japanese)

・Thornton, Thomas F. 2015,07 The Ideology and Practice of Pacific Herring Cultivation among the Tlingit and Haida. Human Ecology 43(2):213-223. (reviewed).

・Thornton, T., Hamada, S., and Mastracci, D. Urgent Anthropology and Marine Ecosystems: Lessons from Pacific Herring Marinescapes (In press). Rajindra Puri (ed.) Urgent Anthropology. The Royal Anthropological Institute, London, UK,

・Thornton Thomas. F. and H. Kitka Sr. 2015,01 An Indigenous Model of a Contested Pacific Herring Fishery in Siaka, Alaska. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research 6(1):94-117. DOI:10.4018/ijagr.2015010106

・Tjajadi, Januarti, Anastasia　Yang, Daisuke Naito, Dian Arwida 2015,10 Lessons from Environmental and Social Sustainability Certification Standards for Equitable REDD+ Benefit-Sharing Mechanisms. CIFOR Infobrief 119.

・Tsutaya, T., Naito, Y.I., Ishida, H. and Yoneda, M. 2014,08 Carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur isotope analyses on human and dog diet in the Okhotsk culture: perspectives from the Moyoro, Japan. Anthropological Science 122(2):89-99. （査読付）

・Weber, Andrzej. W., Schulting R.J., Bronk Ramsey C., Goriunova O.I., Bazaliiskii V.I. 2016,10 Chronology of middle Holocene hunter–gatherers in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia: Corrections based on examination of the freshwater reservoir effect. Quaternary International 419:74-98.

・Weber, S. and Kashyap, A. 2014,05 Panicum sumatrense: The Forgotten Millet. Paul Minnis (ed.) New Lives For Ancient And Extinct Crops. University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ , USA, pp.236-253.

・Witt, Kelsey E., Kathleen Judd, Andrew Kitchen, Colin Grier, Timothy A. Kohler, Scott G. Ortman, Brian M. Kemp and Ripan S. Malhi 2015,02 DNA Analysis of Ancient Dogs of the Americas: Identifying Possible Founding Haplotypes and Reconstructing Population Histories. Journal of Human Evolution 79(105):118.

・Yamamoto, Naoto 2015,03 Sustainable Community in the Late and Final Jomon: A Look at the Tedori River Alluvial Fan in Ishikawa Prefecture. The Journal of the Faculty of Letters, Nagoya University 182:57-74. (in Japanese)

・Yamamoto, Naoto 2017,03 Calibrated 14C Dates of Jomon Plant Remains and Stable Isotope Analysis of Charred Food Remains Collected from the Inner Surface of Pottery. Bulletin of the Faculty of Letters, Nagoya University 188. (in Japanese) (In press)

・Yamamoto, Naoto, Ayako Shibuya and Nobuhiko Kamijo 2016,03 Plant Food in the Jomon Period from Starch Residues on Deep Bowls, Stone Pestles and Mortars: The Scope of Case Studies in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the Faculty of Letters, Nagoya University 185:51-82. (in Japanese)

・Yoshida, Akihiro, Yuichiro Kudo, Kazutaka Shimada, Jun Hashizume, Akira Ono 2015,05 Impact of Landscape Changes on Obsidian Exploitation Since the Paleolithic in the Central Highland of Japan. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 25(1):45-55. DOI:10.1007/s00334-015-0534-y

・Yoshinaga, Akiko and Takao Sato 2017,10 Saibana Kaizuka no Kairui Gyorui Itai: Doshisha Daigaku Shozo Sakazume Korekushon Shiryo no Naiyo (Shellfish and Fish Remains Excavated from the Saibana Shellmidden: A Study of the Sakazume Colletion at Doshisha University) . Bulletin of Doshisha University Historical Museum 20. (in Japanese) (Accepted for publication)

Research Presentations

【Oral Presentation】

・Junko Habu Jomon Food Diversity, Climate Change and Long-term Sustainability: Lessons from Prehistoric Japan. President's Forum of the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2018.04.11, Washington DC.

・Junko Habu From Archaeological Site Preservation Movements to the Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Landscapes in Japan: Preservation of What, for Whom, for How Long and at What Cost?. Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 2018.03.25, Washington DC.

・Adachi, Kaori Changes in the Middle-Late Jomon Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways in the Northern Tohoku Region, Japan. The annual meeting of the Japan Association for Quaternary Research, 2014.09.06, Tokyo University, Kashiwa-City, Chiba. (in Japanese)

・Adachi, Kaori Diversity and Sustainability of Regional Communities in Northern Tohoku, Japan, during the Middle-Late Jomon Periods. Workshop: Food Diversity and Long-Term Sustainabality, 2015.03.11, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

・Adachi, Kaori and Saori Oki Diversity and Sustainability of Regional Communities in Northern Tohoku, Japan, during the Middle-Late Jomon Periods. XIX INQUA 2015: Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization, 2015.07.26-2015.08.02, Nagoya Convention Center, Nagoya.

・Altieri, Miguel A. Paper presented to CJS-JSPS Symposium- Long-term Sustainability through Place-based, Small-Scale Economies. , 2014.09.26-2014.09.28, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

・Altieri, Miguel A. Paper Presented to Colloquium on the Significance of Urban Agriculture to Provide Ecosystem Services in Urban Environments. , 2014.10.22, Stanford University, CA, USA.

・Altieri, Miguel A Agroecology: Research Directions on Rural and Urban Environments. The 128th RIHN Seminar, 2016.05.13, RIHN, Kyoto.

・Altieri, Miguel A Agroecology and Food Sovereignty: Experiences from Latin America. The 130th RIHN, Seminar, 2016.05.30, RIHN, Kyoto.

・Ames, Kenneth M. The Social Lives of Projectile Points Inter and Intrahousehold variation in projectile point forms in Lower Columbia River Plankhouses. 79th Annual Society for American Archaeology Meetings, 2014.04.23-2014.04.27, Austin, TX, USA.

・Ames, Kenneth M. Household-scale economies on the Northwest Coast, A Lower Columbia River Case Study. The CJS-JSPS Symposium “Long-term Sustainability through Place-based, Small-scale economies, 2014.09.26-2014.09.28, University of California, Berkeley.

・Ames, Kenneth M., and Elizabeth M. Sobel The archaeology of exchange and trade on the Lower Columbia River. The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde History Conference, 2014.11.14, Grand Ronde, OR, USA.

・Balée, William Left-handedness, the Right Angle, and Societal Verticality: Reflections on Hocart’s Theory of Hierarchy. The CJS-JSPS Symposium Long-term Sustainability through Place-based, Small-scale Economies, 2014.09.26-2014.09.28, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

・Balée, William Geometry, Gigantism, and Lacquerware, or the Origin of Social Hierarchy. Anthropology Colloquium Series, 2014.10.03, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA.

・Balée, William A Historical-ecological Approach to Geometry, Gigantism, and Dualism in the Landscape. Friday Forum Speakers Series, 2014.10.24, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

・Crema, Enrico, Marco Madella, Junko Habu and Oki Nakamura A Chronological Reassessment of Demographic Change and Anthropogenic Forests in Northern Japan between Early and Late Jomon Periods. World Archaeological Congress, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

・Cuthrell, Rob Blending Traditional Knowledge and Scientific Research to Revitalize Native Stewardship at Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve. The 30th Annual California Indian Conference, 2015.10.15-2015.10.17, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. (in Japanese) 　http://nasd.berkeley.edu/cic

・Cuthrell, Rob Healing Mother Earth Together: Building Partnerships to Improve Land Stweardship and Promote Cultural Revitalization. Symposium at the California Indian Conference, 2015.10.15-2015.10.17, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.

・Cuthrell, Rob An Integrative Historical Ecological Approach to Reconstructing and Revitalizing Indigenous Land Stewardship on the Central California Coast. UC Santa Cruz Environmental Studies Seminar Series, 2015.11.09, UC Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

・Cuthrell, Rob The Amah Mutsun Land Trust and Place-based Stewardship. The Bay Area Open Space Conference, 2016.05.19, Richmond, California, USA.

・Cuthrell, Rob and Kent Lightfoot New Archaeobotanical Evidence from Middle and Late Period Sites on Año Nuevo Point, San Mateo County, California. The Society for California Archaeology Northern Data Sharing Meeting, 2015.11.07, Boulder Creek, California .

・Dolan, Patrick and Colin Grier Simulation and Calibration of Radiocarbon Dates: Alternative Approaches to Constructing Settlement Histories of Early Village Societies and an Application to an early Hunter-gatherer Village in southwestern British Columbia. 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2015.04.16, San Francisco, CA, USA.

・Dolan, Patrick, Colin Grier, Markussen Christine and Katie Simon Magnetic Gradient Survey of a Hunter-Gatherer Plank House Village at the Dionisio Point Site, Northwest Coast of North America. Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, 2016.04.08, Orlando, Florida.

・Ertl, John Intersections of Diversity and Mobility in Japanese Archaeological Discourse. 17th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 2014.05.15-2014.05.18, Chiba, Japan.

・Fitzhugh, Ben Building an International Human Ecodynamics Research Community in the Remote North Pacific from the Perspective of Archaeology and Paleoecology. International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS), 2014.05.22, Prince George, B.C. Canada.

・Fitzhugh, Ben Vulnerability and Resilience on the North Pacific Rim: Climate Oscillation & Food Security, Political Economy and Pandemic. The CJS-JSPS Symposium Long-term Sustainability through Place-based, Small-scale economies, 2014.09.26-2014.09.28, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

・Fitzhugh, Ben Exploring a coupled climate-ocean-human model for the late Holocene North Pacific Rim. XIX INQUA 2015: Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization, 2015.07.26-2015.08.02, Nagoya Convention Center, Nagoya.

・Fitzhugh, Ben Human Adaptation to North Pacific Islands in the Context of Atmospheric and Oceanic Variability. International Workshop “Climate Change and Food Diversity in the Past and Present: Comparative Studies on the North Pacific and Atlantic Coasts”, 2015.07.30, RIHN, Kyoto. (in Japanese)

・Fitzhugh, Ben Kodiak and the Kurils: A comparative Approach to the Sustainability of North Pacific Maritime Hunter-Gatherers. 11th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS), 2015.09.07-2015.09.11, University of Vienna, Austria. (in Japanese)

・Fitzhugh, Ben and Funk, Caroline Sustainability and Settlement: A Comparative Analysis of Late Holocene Settlement Patterns in the Aleutians and Kuril Islands. The Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, 2014.04.25, Austin, TX, USA.

・Fitzhugh, Ben and William W. Fitzhugh Subsistence Ecology and the Development of North Pacific Maritime Cultures: Legacies of the Past, Prospects of the Future. International Symposium: Comparative Studies of Indigenous Cultures along the North Pacific Rim: Focusing on Indigenous Rights and Marine Resource Utilization, 2014.01.13, National Museum of Ethnology, Minpaku, Osaka.

・Fitzhugh, B., Yoneda, M., Habu, J., Taylor, J., Kamenov, G., Shinkai, R. and Krigbaum, J. Okhotsk Culture Mobility in the Context of Maritime Subsistence and Seasonally Frozen Coasts. ESSAS Annual Science Meeting "Scientific Challenges in a Changing Arctic&Subarctic", 2016.03.07-2016.03.09, Yokohama World Porters, Yokohama.

・Fukunaga, Mayumi Who manages the watershed?: Legitimacy building and competing uses of watershed space. IUEAS, 2014.05.08, Chiba-City, Chiba-Ken.

・Goto, Nobuyo Shakaiundo kara Shiminshudogata Keizai Sekuta e no Tenkai: Sanfuranshisuko Grin Fesutibaru ni Miru Amerika teki na Michi (From Social Movement to Citizen-led Economic Sector: Case Study on Green Festival in San Francisc, USA). Kisokeizaikagaku Kenkyusho Shunki Kenkyu Koryushukai (Basic Economic Science Research Institute Spring Meeting), 2015.03.15, Meijo University, Nagoya, Aichi. (in Japanese)

・Goto, Nobuyo Hisaichi de Tenkai suru Teisenryo Hibaku oyobi Genomugaku wo Meguru Seijikeizaigaku (Polotical Economy of Low Level Exposure and Genom Biology in the Disaster-Stricken Area). The 63rd Annual Meeting of Japan Society of Political Economy, 2015.11.21-2015.11.22, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

・Goto, Nobuyo "3.11 Fukushima" to Shiminshakai: Shakaikiki to Kagakuteki Shimin no Seitan (“3.11 Fukushima” and Civil Society: Social Crisis and Birth of Citizen Science). The 39th Annual Meeting of Institute For Fundamental Political Economy , 2016.09.17-2016.09.18, Komazawa University. (in Japanese)

・Goto, Yasuo 3.11 Fukushima no Tatakai ni okeru Hisaisha Undo no NPO Tenkai (Development of NPOs to Support the Struggle of the 3.11 Fukushima Victims). Japan Society of Political Economy, 2014.10.25, Osaka. (in Japanese)

・Grier, Colin Actor Networks and Coastal Landforms in Precontact Coast Salish History: Formulating a New Approach to Some Key Issues in Northwest Coast Archaeology. 79th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2014.04.23-2014.04.27, Austin, TX, USA.

・Grier, Colin Decentralization, Local Autonomy and Resource Management Practices in Coast Salish Societies of the Northwest Coast: Lessons from the Small Scale. The CJS-JSPS Symposium Long-Term Sustainability through Place-Based, Small-Scale Economies, 2014.09.26-2014.09.28, University of California, Berkeley.

・Grier, Colin Investigating Landscape, Sustainability and Social Change over 3500 Years at the Montague Harbour Site. 68th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, 2015.03.26-2015.03.28, Eugene, OR, USA.

・Grier, Colin Long-term Resource Management Practices in the Coast Salish Region of the Northwest Coast of North America: Lessons from the Archaeological Record. World Archaeological Congress, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

・Grier, Colin Terraforming, Monumentality and Long Term Practice in the Coast Salish World. Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, 2016.04.08, Orlando, Florida.

・Grier, Colin, Eric McLay and Michael P. Richards In Twos and Threes: Dating Multiple Samples and Materials to Address the Marine Reservoir Effect. 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 2015.04.15-2015.04.19, San Francisco, CA, USA.

・Habu, Junko Sedentary Hunter-Gatherers in East Asia: Jomon People. The 8th Minpaku Kyodo Kenkyukai, 2014.07.06, National Museum of Ethnology, Suita-City, Osaka.

・Habu, Junko Sedetism, Mobility and Human Impacts on the Environment: A Perspective from Historical Ecology. JAQUA Meeting 2014, 2014.09.05-2014.09.09, Tokyo University, Kashiwa-City, Chiba-Ken.

・Habu, Junko Did Jomon People Have the Staple Food?-Food Diversity and Environmental Issues-. The 6th RIHN Tokyo Seminar, 2015.01.16, Yurakucho Asahi Hall, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo.

・Habu, Junko Long-term Sustainability through Place-Based, Small-scale Economies: Approaches from Historical Ecology. Workshop: Food Diversity and Long-Term Sustainabality. , 2015.03.11, University of California, Berkeley.

・Habu, Junko Human Ecodynamics and Their Changes in Prehistoric Japan: Food Diversity, Climate Change and Long-term Sustainability of Hunter-Gatherer System. International Union for Quaternary Research Congress, 2015.07.26-2015.08.02, Nagoya Convention Center, Nagoya.

・Habu, Junko Sedentism, Subsistence Specialization and Human Impacts on the Environment: A Case Study from the Jomon Period, Northern Japan. International Workshop "Climate Change and Food Diversity in the Past and Present: Comparative Studies on the North Pacific and Atlantic Coasts" , 2015.07.30, RIHN, Kyoto.

・Habu, Junko Food Diversity, Demography and Climate Change: Lessons from the Prehistoric Jomon Period, Japan. World Archaeological Congress, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

・Habu, Junko, Barbara Rose Johnston and Rika Shinkai Indigenouse rights, cultural heritage, landscapes, and dam construction: the case from Nibutani in Hokkaido, Japan. World Archaeological Congress, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

・Habu, Junko and Weber, Steven Mobility, Food Diversity and Climate Change: Prehistoric Cases from East and South Asia. Society for American Archaeology, 2014.04.23-2014.04.27, Austin, TX, USA.

・Hamada, Shingo The Historical Ecology of the Herring in the North Pacific Rim: Cases from Tlingit and Ainu. The 2014 Hokkaido Ethnological Society Workshop, 2014.07.13, Hokkai-Gakuen University, Sapporo, Hokkaido. (in Japanese)

・Hamada, Shingo Household-scale Fisheries and Environmental Change in Northern Japan. JSPS-CJS Symposium: "Long-term Sustainability through Place-based, Small-scale economies", 2014.09.26-2014.09.28, University of California, Berkeley. DOI:http://jspssustainabilityconference2014.weebly.com

・Hamada, Shingo Zairaichi ni Motoduita Nishin Shigenriyo to Zoshokugijutsu no Jissen: Arasuka Shitoka Toringittozoku no Jirei kara (Herring Use Based on Traditional Knowledge and Breeding Technology: Case Study fron Tlingit Tribe in Sitka, Alaska). Heisei 26nen Nishin Shigen Kenkyukai (2014 Herring Resource Workshop), 2014.10.31, Hokkaido. (in Japanese)

・Hamada, Shingo Totemism in Science: An Experimental and Multispecies Ethnography of Fisheries Science in Japan. The 113th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, December 2014, Washington, DC, USA.

・Hamada, S., Thornton, T., Shinkai, R. and Habu, J. Economies in the North Pacific. ESSAS Annual Science Meeting "Scientific Challenges in a Changing Arctic&Subarctic", 2016.03.06-2016.03.06, Yokohama World Porpers, Yokoama.

・Hattori, T., Sawada, J. and Sato, T. Ohotsuku Bunka no Buta Shiiku ni miru Jikansa: Saizu to Enamerushitsugenkeisei ni kansuru Kento (Time Difference Observed from Pig Rearing System of Okhotsk Culture: Disucssion on Size and Enamel Hypoplasia). The 3rd Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Zooachaeology, 2015.07.04-2015.07.05, Nara National Institute for CulturalProperties, Nara. (in Japanese)

・Hattori, T., Sawada, J., Masuda, R. and Sato, T. Ohotsuku Bunka Shudan ni Okeru Buta no Shiiku Riyo (Breeding and Use of Pigs by Okhotsk People). The 70th Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Society of Nippon, 2016.10.08-2016.10.10, Niigata NSG Gakusei-Sogo-Plaza STEP, Niigata. (in Japanese)

・Hopt, Justin and Colin Grier Correspondence Analysis and Shell Middens: Exploring Patterns in Faunal Data to Decipher Complex Depositional Environments. 69th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, 2016.03.24-2016.03.26, Tacoma, Washington, USA.

・Hosoya, Leo Aoi East Asian Grinding- Incidental or Fundamental?: Ethnoarchaeological Analyses of Japanese and Chinese Food Processing. The 20th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 2014.01.12-2014.01.18, Siem Reap, Cambodia.

・Hosoya, Leo Aoi Revitalizing Broad-spectrum Economies: From the Scope of Archeology and Ethnography. The CJS-JSPS Symposium: Long-term Sustainability Through Place-based, Small-scale Economies, 2014.09.26-2014.09.28, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

・Hosoya, Leo Aoi Processing, Storage and Symbolism of Wild Nuts in the Past and Present: Comparative Ethnoarchaeobotanical Studies of East Asia and USA. 7th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology, 2016.06.08-2016.06.12, Harvard University and Boston University, Boston, USA.

・Hosoya, Leo Aoi Processing, Storage and Symbolism of Wild Nuts in the Past and Present: Comparative Ethnoarchaeobotanical Studies of Japan and California, USA. 17th Conference of International Working Group for Palaeoethnobotany, 2016.07.04-2016.07.09, le Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Paris, France.

・Hosoya, Leo Aoi Wild Nuts in the Past and Present: Comparative Ethnoarchaeobotanical Studies of East Asia and USA. World Archaeological Congress 8, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

・Hosoya, L. A., Nakamura, O., Seguchi, S. and Shibutani, A. What did Jomon People Eat in Fact? Jomon Subsistence and Society: Chronological Shifts in Japanese Jomon Subsistence Strategies on the Basis of Local Characteristics of North Tohoku Area. 6th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology, 2014.06.10, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar.

・Hosoya, Leo Aoi, Oki Nakamura, Shinji Seguchi, Ayako Shibutani Japanese Jomon Hunter-Gatheres’ Subsistence and Society: Chronological shifts in subsistence strategies on the basis of local characteristics of north Tohoku area. 11th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS), 2015.09.07-2015.09.11, University of Vienna, Austria. (in Japanese) 　https://chags.univie.ac.at/

・Hylkema, M.G., V. Lopez, and R. Cuthrell Returning Indigenous Stewardship to Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve. The California State Park and Recreation Commission, 2015.08.21, Cambria, CA, USA.

・Iizuka, Noriko Senjumin ni kakawaru Chiiki Kenkyu no Chiken wo Katsuyo shita Kankyo Kyoiku (Envronmental Education Using the Knowledge of Area Studies regarding Indigenous Peopole). The 26th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Environmental Education, 2015.08.22-2015.08.23, Nagoya City University, Aichi. (in Japanese)

・Iizuka, Noriko and Tatsuro Niikawa Chiiki Kenkyu kara Umareru NPO Katsudo: Chiiki Bunka no Tayosei ni Manabu Kankyokyoiku Jigyo Jissen Hokoku (NPO Activity Based on Area Studies: Report on Implementation of Environmental Education Based on the Diversity of Local Culture). 17th Meeting of Japan NPO Research Association, 2015.03.14-2015.03.15, Musashi University, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

・Iizuka, Noriko and Mikako Yamaguchi Hokubei Senjumin to Shizen tono Kakawari ni Manabu Kankyo Kyoiku Jissen (Environmental Education Learned from the Relationship between the Indigenous People in North America and Nature) . 25th Meeting of Japanese Society of Environmental Education, 2014.08.02-2014.08.03, Hosei University, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

・Ikeya, Kazunobu Higashi Nihon Daishinsai Iko no Sanriku no Gyoson ni okaru Tennen Kombu to Awabi no Saishu ni Tsuite (Collection of Wild Kelp and Abalone in the Sanriku Fishing Villages after the Great East Japan Earthquake). The 2015 Spring Meeting of the Association of Japanese Geographers, 2015.03.27-2015.03.30, Nihon University, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

・Ito, Yumiko and Junko Habu Dietary Importance of Chestnuts (Castanea) and Horse Chestnuts (Aesculus) among Complex Hunter-Gatherers in the Temperate Zone: A Case Study from the Early and Middle Jomon Periods on the Aomori Plain, Northern Japan. World Archaeological Congress, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

・Johnston, Barbara R. After the good, the bad and the ugly: Considering Chixoy Dam development, extractive industry and archaeological research in Guatemala. World Archaeological Congress, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

・Johnston, Barbara. R Environment, Health and Human Rights: Current Challenges and Adaptive Responses in the Marshall Islands. Small-scale Economies Project Workshop: Nuclear Disaster, Systematic Resilience, and the Power of Traditional Ecological Knowledge – Comparative Studies and Emerging Experiences in Fukushima and the Marshall Islands, 2016.08.31, RIHN, Kyoto.

・Johnston, Barbara, R. and Junko Habu Doing Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Work in Nuclear Disaster Zones: Environmental Health Risks and Worker Concerns. World Archaeoloigcal Congress 8, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

・Johnston, Barbara R. Environment, Health and Human Rights: Current Challenges and Adaptive Responses in the Marshall Islands. Small-scale Economies Project Workshop: Nuclear Disaster, Systematic Resilience, and the Power of Traditional Ecological Knowledge – Comparative Studies and Emerging Experiences in Fukushima and the Marshall Islands, 2016.08.31, RIHN, Kyoto.

・Kaneko, Nobuhiro No-tillage with Weed Green Mulch: Extension of Fukuoka’s Natural Farming. The CJS-JSPS Symposium Long-term sustainability through place-based, small-scale economies, 2014.09.26-2014.09.28, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

・Kaner, Simon Human-Environment Dynamics in Riverine Landscapes: Long and Short Term Perspectives from Central Japan. International Workshop "Climate Change and Food Diversity in the Past and Present: Comparative Studies on the North Pacific and Atlantic Coasts”, 2015.07.30, RIHN, Kyoto.

・Kaner, Simon Metastability, Communication and Change: Observations from the Shinano-Chikuma River. The 137 RIHN Seminar, 2017.01.06, RIHN, Kyoto.

・Kawahata, Hodaka Environmental Change and its Influence on Human Society in Japan during the Last 3000 Years. XIX INQUA 2015: Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization, 2015.07.26-2015.08.02, Nagoya Convention Center, Nagoya, Japan.

・Kawahata, H., Hatta, Y., Ota, Y., Yoshida, A. and Habu, J. Quantitative Reconstruction of Temperature in Northern Japan for the Last 2000 Years and the Influential Factors to Determine Climatic Fluctuation. European Geosciences Union-General Assembly 2016, 2016.04.17-2016.04.22, Austria Center Vienna, Austria.

・Kawahata, H., Hatta, Y., Habu, J. and Yoshida, A. Kitanihon ni okeru Kako 6,700 nenkan no Ondo Henka to Jinrui Katsudo (Temperature Variation and Human Activity For the Last 6,700 Years in Northern Japan). Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016, 2016.05.22-2016.05.26, Makuhari Messe, Chiba. (in Japanese)

・Khenzykhenova, F. Sato, T., Medvedev, G., Lipnina, E., Yoshida, K., Kato, H., Semenei, E., Lokhov, D. Paleogeographic Significance of Mammal Fauna of the Paleolithic Malta Site and its Vicinity. The 7th International Symposium of the Asian Paleolithic Association, 2014.11.14, Gongju, Korea.

・Khenzykhenova, F. and Sato, T Ecosystem Analysis of Baikal Siberia Using Paleolithic Faunal Assemblages to Reconstruct MIS3-MIS2 Environments and Climates. XIX INQUA Congress: Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization, 2015.07.26-2015.08.02, Nagoya Convention Center, Japan.

・Kusaka, S., and Nakano, T. Carbon Isotope Analysis on Tooth Enamel to Reveal Relationships between Diet and Tooth Ablation Types of the Jomon in Japan. The 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, 2014.04.08-2014.04.12, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

・Kusaka, S., Tayasu Ichiro and Minoru Yoneda Kanto Kaizuka Jomon Jinkotsu to Dobutsukotsu no Aminosan Chisso Doitai Bunseki (Stable Nitrogen Isotope Analysis of Amino Acid of Human and Animal Bones Recovered from the Jomon Shellmidden in the Kanto Region). The 68th Annual Meeting of the Anthropological Society of Nippon, 2014.10.31-2014.11.03, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka. (in Japanese)

・Lightfoot, Kent, Rob Cuthrell, Peter Nelson, Roberta Jewett, Michael Grone, and Gabriel Sanchez Endangered Sites and the Study of Landscape Management Practices in Central California: An Update. The Society for California Archaeology Northern Data Sharing Meeting,, 2015.11.07, Boulder Creek, California.

・Lightfoot, Kent, Nick Tipon, Peter Nelson, Rob Cuthrell, Roberta Jewett, Paul Engel, Michael Grone, and Gabriel Sanchez Recent Research on Indigenous Landscape Management Practices in Point Reyes National Seashore. The 30th Annual California Indian Conference, 2015.10.15-2015.10.17, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. 　http://nasd.berkeley.edu/cic

・Matzen, Sarick Plant-based Remediation of Arsenic-contaminated Soil: Successes and Challenges. The Small-scale Economies Project Seminar "Plant-based Remediation of Arsenic-contaminated Soil: Successes and Challenges", 2016.07.01, RIHN, Kyoto.

・Matzen, Sarick and Arnold, Joshua Can Training Help Urban Farmers Deal with Soil Contamination? . Sustainable Agriculture Educators Association, 2016.07.29-2016.07.31, University of California, Santa Cruz, California.

・Matzen, Sarick, Anders Olson, Céline Pallud Optimizing Arsenic Phytoextraction from an Urban Brownfield: A Two Year Field Study. Goldschmidt Conference, 2015.08.16-2015.08.21, Prague, Czech Republic.

・Matzen Sarick, Anders Olson and Céline Pallud Effects of Fertilizer on Arsenic Accumulation in a Hyperaccumulating Fern: A Two Year Phytoremediation Field Study. Soil Science Society of America, 2015.11.15-2015.11.18, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

・Nakahara, Satoe Making New Home and Rejecting Inherited Home: The Rongelap People Reconstruct Their Life with Food. Small-scale Economies Project Workshop: Nuclear Disaster, Systematic Resilience, and the Power of Traditional Ecological Knowledge – Comparative Studies and Emerging Experiences in Fukushima and the Marshall Islands, 2016.08.31, RIHN, Kyoto.

・Nelson, Peter, Rob Cuthrell, Valetin Lopez, Nick Tipon and Kent Lightfoot Reconnecting with the Land: Collaborative Archaeology for Cultural and Conservation Values. Plenary Symposium, “Beyond Boundaries,” 49th Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, 2015.03.13-2015.03.15, Redding, CA, USA.

・Oishi, Takanori Psychosocial importance of forest life for the Bakwele farmers of southeastern Cameroon. The 14th International Society of Ethnobiology Congress, 2014.06.01-2014.06.07, Lamai Gompa, Bumthang, Bhutan .

・Oishi, Takanori Food Diversity, Interethnic Relationships, and Long-Term Sustainability of Forest Use in Central African Tropical Rainforests. The CJS-JSPS Symposium “Long-term Sustainability through Place-based, Small-scale economies, 2014.09.26-2014.09.28, University of California, Berkeley.

・Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Development Process of Watershed Resilient Community After 3.11 Japan Earthquake. 2015 National Marine Educators Association, 2015.06.29-2015.07.02, Newport, Rhode Island, USA.

・Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Building Process of Forest River Ocean MANABI Network System. 2015 Annual Meeting of Ichthydogical Society of Japan, 2015.09.04-2015.09.07, Kingrai University Nara Campus, Nara-City. (in Japanese)

・Sasaki, Tsuyoshi What is Food Intrinsic Value: FIV for Sustainable Society? . International Self Determination Theory Conference, 2016.06.01-2016.06.06, Victoria, Canada.

・Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Cherry Salmon Studying Project in Tsunami Area Enhancing Local Community Resilience. 2016 Annual Conference - National Marine Educators Association, 2016.06.24-2016.06.30, Orland, FL, USA.

・Savelle, James Prehistoric and Early Historic Whaling. The 11th Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies (CHAGS), 2015.09.07-2015.09.11, University of Vienna, Austria.

・Savelle, James Subsistence Resiliency and Climate Change: The Development and Cllapse of Canadian Arctic Thule Whaling Societies. World Archaeological Congress, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

・Schneider, Tsim Seeing Native Communities in Postmission Marin County, California. Critical Conversations in Critical Cultural Heritage, 2016.04.14, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.

・Schneider. D. Tsim After the Missions: Rethinking Native Communities in Colonial Marin County, California. The 30th Annual California Indian Conference, 2015.10.15-2015.10.17, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA. 　http://nasd.berkeley.edu/cic

・Schulting, R., Bronk,R. C., Goriunova, O.I., Bazaliiskii, V.I., Weber, A.W. Examination of the fresh water reservoir effect in the Cis-Baikal region. The Baikal–Hokkaido Archeology Project Workshop, 2014.05.05-2014.05.07, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

・Schulting R., Yoneda Y., Weber A. Hunter-gatherers in a northern ‘maritime’ zone: a comparison of stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes from Baikal and Hokkaido. The Annual Meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists, 2014.09.10-2014.09.14, Istanbul, Turkey.

・Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas Healing the Land: Farming after Fukushima. American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting, 2015.11.18-2015.11.22, Denver, Colorado.

・Takahashi, Satsuki Precarious Drama: Surviving and Living in Post-Disaster Japan. The Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association, 2014.12.05, Washington, DC, USA.

・Takase, Katsunori Subsistence, Land Use and Resistance to Natural Disasters of the Prehistoric Society: A Case Study in Northern Japan. International Workshop "Climate Change and Food Diversity in the Past and Present: Comparative Studies on the North Pacific and Atlantic Coasts”, 2015.07.30, RIHN, Kyoto.

・Thornton, T. F. and S. Hamada Herring as Gifts and Trade Items in Southeast Alaska and Northern Japan. Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, 2016.03.28-2016.04.01, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

・Thornton, T. F. and S. Hamada Growth, Degrowth, and De-Refit in the Lineage of Sustainability Values Among Alaska Natives. 115th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 2016.11.16-2016.11.20, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

・Weber, A.W., Bronk R. C., Schulting, R., Goriunova, O.I. and Bazaliiskii, V.I. Freshwater reservoir effect corrections to chronology of middle Holocene hunter–gatherers in the Cis-Baikal region of Siberia. The Baikal–Hokkaido Archeology Project Workshop, 2014.05.05-2014.05.07, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

・Yamaguchi, Tomiko Sangyoka shita Yukinogyo no Taikojiku no Shoso: Kariforunia no Shokibo Yukiinoka no Torikumi o toshite (Aspects of Industrialized Organic Agriculture: Case Study on the Small-scale Organic Farmers in California). The Japan Sociological Society 89th Meeting, 2016.10.08-2016.10.09, Kyushu University. (in Japanese)

・Yamaguchi, Tomiko and Junko Habu Institutional Expertise and Lay Responses to Soil Contamination: The Experience of Farmers in Fukushima. The Third ISA Forum of Sociology, 2016.07.10-2016.07.13, Vienna, Austria.

・Yamamoto, Naoto Jomon Wetland Sites on the East Coast of the Noto Peninsula, Central Japan. XIX INQUA 2015: Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization, 2015.07.26-2015.08.02, Nagoya Convention Center, Nagoya, Japan.

・Yamamoto, Naoto Wooden Circles in the Final Jomon period of Japan. Wetland Archaeology Research Project 30th Anniversary Meeting, 2016.06.28-2016.07.02, University of Bradford, UK.

・Yamamoto, Naoto The Wetland Sites of the Late and Final Jomon: A Look at the Tedori River Alluvial Fan in Central Japan. World Archaeological Congress 8, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doshisha University, Kyoto.

・Yoneda, Minoru Hone no Doitaibunseki ni yoru Nihonkai Engan Jomonjin no Shokuseitai (Ecology of Eating of the Jomon People Living along the Sea of Japan Reconstructed from Isotope Analysis of Bones). The 80th Meeting of Japanese Archaeological Association, 2014.05.18, Setagaya, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

・Yoneda, Minoru Doitaibunseki ni yoru Kako no Hitobito no Shukusei Fukugen (Reconstruction of Food Habit of People in the Past through Isotope Analysis: Recent Progress). The 5th Niigata Joint Seminar on Anatomy, 2014.10.15. (in Japanese)

・Yoneda, Minoru Shokusei Bunseki kara Mita Jomonjidai Chuki kara Koki e no Henka (Changes from the Middle to Late Jomon Period through the Dietary Analysis). Research Institute of Prehistoric Culture of Japan Symposium, Meiji University, 2014.11.15, Meiji University, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

・Yoneda, Minoru Kanreika ga Jomonjidaijin no Shokuseikatsu ni Ataeta Eikyo: Daikatahanawa Kaizuka Shutsudo Jinkotsu no Doitai Bunseki no Kosatsu (Impact of Cooling Climate on the Jomon Diet: Discussion on the Isotope Analysis of the Human Bones Excavated from Daikatahanawa Shellmidden). Research Institute of Prehistoric Culture of Japan Symposium, Meiji University, 2015.11.29, Meiji University, Kyoto. (in Japanese)

・Yoneda, Minoru Jomonsokijin no Shokuseitai o Kodaijin no Doitaihi kara Kangaeru (Thinking about the Early Jomon Ecology of Eating through the Isotope Ratio of Bones). Institute of Cultural Science Open Workshop, Chuo University, 2016.02.06, Chuo University, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

・Yoneda, Minoru Shoku no Tayoseika to Shakai Fukuzatsuka (Food Diversity and Complex Society). Research Institute of Prehistoric Culture of Japan Symposium, Meiji University, 2016.08.27, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

・Yoneda, Minoru Hone kara Kataru Kako no Shokuseitai (Ecology of Eating in the Past Reconstructed from Bones). The 70th Symposium of the Anthropological Society of Nippon “History Reconstructed from Bones”, 2016.10.09, Niigata Citizens Plaza. Niigata. (in Japanese)

・Yoneda, M. and S. Kusaka Maritime Adaptation of Jomon Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer of Prehistoric Japan. Radiocarbon and Diet: Aquatic Food Resources and Reservoir Effect, International Scientific Meeting, 2014.09.24-2014.09.26, Kile, Germany. 　

・Yoneda, M., Nara, T. and Sawada, J. Kodaijinkotsu no Doitaihi kara Mita Jomonjidai Seigyo no Chokiteki Kanosei (The Potential of the Jomon Subsistence Strategies Learned from the Isotope Ration of Archaeological Human Remains). Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016, 2015.05.22-2015.05.27, Makuhari Messe, Chiba. (in Japanese) 　RIHN, Kyoto

・Yoneda, Minoru, H. Takayama, J.Sawada, and T. Nara Maritime adaption of Jomon populations in northern Japan (Hokkaido and Tohoku). World Archaeological Congress 8, 2016.08.28-2016.09.02, Doushisha University, Kyoto. .

・Yoshida, Akihiro Naganoken Hirohara Shitsugen no Kafun Sosei kara Mita Saishu Hyoki Iko no Shinrin Genkai no Hensen (Changes in Forest Lines after the Last Gracial Period through the Analysis of Pollen Composition in the Hirohara Wet Site, Nagano). Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2014, 2014.05.01, Kanagawa. (in Japanese)

・Yoshida, Akihiro Aomoriken Ogawarako no Kahunkaseki Deta kara Mita Kanshinsei no Kikohendo Sigunaru (Warning for Climate Change through the Holocene Pollen Data Recovered from Ogawara Lake, Aomori). Japanese Association of Historical Botany, 2014.11.23, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima. (in Japanese)

・Yoshida, Akihiro Nenkotaisekibutsu no Kojikanbunkai no Kafunkaseki Deta o Mochiiita Kako 1mannenkan no Kokiko Fukugen: Aomori Ken Ogawarako no Kenkyu Jirei to Kongo no Hattensei (Reconstruction of Paleo-Climate for the Past 10,000 Years through the Analysis of Pollen Fossil Data: Case Study of Ogawara Lake, Aomori and Future Possibilities). The Historical Society of Kagoshima University , 2015.07.04, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima. (in Japanese)

・Yoshida, Akihiro, Yuichiro Kudo, Kazutaka Shimada, Jun Hashizume, Akira Ono Impact of landscape changes on obsidian exploitation since the Paleolithic in the central highland of Japan. XIX INQUA 2015: Quaternary Perspectives on Climate Change, Natural Hazards and Civilization, 2015.07.26-2015.08.02, Nagoya Convention Center, Nagoya, Japan.

・Yoshida, A., Kawahata, H. and Habu, J. Cooling Climate of the Middle Holocene Reconstructed from the Pollen Analysis Data of the Sediment Core of Uchiura Bay, Hokkaido.. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016, 2016.05.22-2016.05.26, Makuhari Messe, Chiba. (in Japanese)

【Poster Presentation】

・Fitzhugh, Ben, C. Bitz, K. Nagashima, J. Addison, B. Finney, N. Misarti, N. Harada, M. Etnier, C. West, and P. Anderson Holocene Climate Change and Human Adaptations to Seasonally Frozen Seas and Coasts of the N. Pacific. Ecosystem Studies of Subarctic Seas, Annual Meeting, 2015.06.15-2015.06.17, University of Washington, WA.

・Fitzhugh, Ben and William Brown Do long-term Marine Ecosystem Crashes Explain Human Population Asymmetries Across the Subarctic North Pacific Rim over the Past 2000 Years?.. Alaska Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, 2015.03.04-2015.03.07, Anchorage Hilton, AK.

・Fitzhugh, Ben and William Brown Human Paleodemography and Ecodynamics in the Subarctic North Pacific: Teleconnections in Large Time and Space Scales? . American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) Annual Meeting, 2014.08.09, Seattle WA.

・Grier, Colin Radiocarbon Dating and Long-term Economics at an Ancient Coast Salish Village in Coastal Southwestern British Columbia. 68th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, 2015.03.26-2015.03.28, Eugene, OR, USA.

・Ito, Y., Habu, J., Onishi, T., and Inano, Y. Anacardiaceae fruits excavated from Goshizawa-matumori Site in Aomori City. The 29th Meeting of Japanese Association of Historical Botany, 2014.11.23, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima.

・Matzen, Sarick Effects of Soil Texture and Soil Fertilization on Arsenic Phytoextraction. Goldschmidt Conference, 2016.06.26-2016.07.01, Yokohama Pacifico Convention Center, Yokohama.

・Oishi, Takanori and Njoukou, André-Ledoux Wild mushroom uses by the Baka and the Bakwele of southern Cameroon. The 14th International Society of Ethnobiology Congress, 2014.06.01-2014.06.07, Lamai Gompa, Bumthang, Bhutan.

・Onishi, Tomokazu, Naoko Nakamura, Tomoe Sangawa Edible plants detected from researches of seed impressions on thepotteries at the periphery area of Kofun culture. The 32th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association of Historical Botany, 2015.11.08, Hokkaido Museum, Sapporo.

・Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Impacts of Forest River Ocean MANABI Network System on Community Capability. Japanese Society of Environmental Education, 26 th Meeting, 2015.08.23-2015.08.24, Nagoya City University, Aichi.

・Yoneda, M., Kusaka S. and Habu, J. Hone no Doitaihi kara Mita Jomonjidai Chuki kara Koki e ho Jinko Gekigen (A Sharp Population Decrease from the Middle to the Late Jomon Period through the Skeletal Isotope Ratio). The 4th Isotope Environmetal Studies Symposium, 2014.12.22, RIHN, Kyoto. (in Japanese)

・Yoshida, Akihiro Aomoriken Ogawarako no Kojikanbunkai no Kafuniseki Deta o Mochiita Kako 1mannenkan no Teiryoteki na Kokiko Fukugen (Quantitative Reconstruction of Paleo-Climate for the Past 10,000 Years through the Analysis of Pollen Fossil Data from Ogawara Lake, Aomori). The 30th General Meeting of Japanese Association of Historical Botany, 2015.11.06-2015.11.09, Hokkaido Museum, Hokkaido. (in Japanese)

【Invited Lecture / Honorary Lecture / Panelist】

・Altieri, Miguel A Agroecology and Food Sovereignty: Experiences from Latin America. ICU SSRI Open Lecture, 2016.05.16, International Christian University, Tokyo.

・Altieri, Miguel A Science and Politics of Agroecology. 2nd KU-WU International Graduate Workshop on Food, Farm and Rural Development, 2016.05.25, .

・Ames, Kenneth M. What’s up on the Northwest Coast: Revising/Rethinking Complex Hunter Gatherers. Parson’s Lecture, 2014.10.16, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

・Ertl, John Amerikajin ga Kataru Goshono Iseki no Kachi to Miryoku (The Value and Appeal of Goshono Site). Invited Lecture, 2014.03.08, Iwate.

・Fukunaga, Mayumi Re-weaving Hope: Tsunami Survivors, Local Reciprocity Networks, and Futurity. CJS-JSPS Symposium Long-term Sustainability through Place-based, Small-scale Economies, 2014.09.26-2014.09.28, University of California, Berkeley.

・Fukunaga, Mayumi Sustaining Society, Sustaining Science: Why Social Memory of Pollution Still Matters in Building a Just and Equitable Society. GPSS-GLI International Symposium, 'How Can We Build “Kizuna” for Sustainability?: An Ecological Perspective -Exploring the Frontiers of Sustainability Science 2015-', 2015.01.19, Kashiwano-ha Conference Center, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan.

・Goto, Nobuyo Fukushima kara no Koe: 21seiki o Ikiru Yorokobi Hataraku Yorokobi e (Voices from Fukushima: From Joy of Living in the 21st Century to Joy of Working). The Commemorative Lecture of the 62nd Niigata Mothers Assembly, 2016.07.31, Niigata. (in Japanese)

・Goto, Nobuyo Nuclear Disaster and Social Movement in Fukushima Civil Society in Asia. , 2017.02.02-2017.02.03, Center for Japanese Studies, Melbourne University.

・Goto, Yasuo 6nenme o Mukaeru Fukushima no Genjitsu to Tachiagaru Shakaiundo (The Situation of Fukushima in its 6th Year since the Great East Japan Earthquake and Emerging Social Movements). NPO Researh Organization for Asian Environments and Energy, 2nd General Meeting, Keynote Lecture, 2016.05.08, Rikkyo University, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

・Goto, Yasuo 3.11 Fukushima to Saiensu Komyunikeshon no Shippai: Senmonka to Jumin no Aratana Kankei e (3.11 Fukushima and Failture of Science Communication: Towards a NewRelationship between Experts and Local Residents). University Public Symposium, 2017.10.17, Toyama University, Toyama. (in Japanese)

・Grier, Colin Hunter-Gatherer Landscapes: Built Environments and the Emergence of Social Inequality. Department of Archaeology and Art History, Seoul National University, 2014, Seoul, Korea.

・Habu, Junko Graduate Education at UC Berkeley: Training a New Generation of Scholars in the Field of Archaeology. Lecture at Alumni Association of Archaeology and Ethnology, Keio University, 2014.06.07, Keio University, Minato-Ku, Tokyo.

・Habu, Junko Food Diversity and the Growth and Decline of Human Cultures. Seminar on Cultural Resources, Archaeology and Contemporary Society 4, 2014.10.26, Tokyo National Museum, Taito-Ku, Tokyo.

・Habu, Junko Archaeology, Food Diversity and Long-term Sustainability of Human Societies: Lessons from Prehistoric Japan. 2014 Senior Fellowship Program in National Museum of Korea, 2014.11.09-2014.11.15, Yongsan-dong, Seoul.

・Habu, Junko Jomon Staple Food and Society. Tsugaru City Jomon 2015 Symposium, 2015.02.14, Tsugaru City Shogai Gakushu Center, Tsugaru-City, Aomori-Ken.

・Habu, Junko Nuclear Issues in Japan: The Great East Japan Earthquake and the Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi. The Society of Woman Geographers, 2015.03.14, Minerva House, Berkeley, CA, USA.

・Habu, Junko Food Diversity and the Growth and the Decline of Past Cultures: Environmental Problems Examined from an Archaelogical Perspective. The 62nd RIHN Citizen's Seminar, 2015.04.30, Heartpia-Kyoto, Kyoto. (in Japanese)

・Habu, Junko Graduate Education in North America: Training a New Generation of Scholars in the Field of Archaeology, Anthropology, and Related Fields. Guanghua Humanity Foundation Academic Exchange Seminar, 2015.06.01, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

・Habu, Junko Food Diversity and Long-term Sustainability, Lesson from Prehistoric Japan. Guanghua Humanity Foundation Academic Exchange Seminar, 2015.06.02, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

・Habu, Junko Food of the Jomon People and the Growth and Decline of Past Cultures. The 30th Shukushoshakai Kenkyukai (The Society for the Study of Shrinking Society), 2015.09.05, Nezu Church, Tokyo. (in Japanese)

・Habu, Junko The Ecological Studies of the Jomon Period and Prof. Nakao Sakazume. Open Lectures on the Studies of Jomon Shellmidden and Prof. Nakao Sakazume, 2015.10.11, Doshisha University, Kyoto. (in Japanese)

・Habu, Junko Food Diversity and Jomon Archaeology. , 2015.12.04, Korekawa Archaeological Institution. (in Japanese)

・Habu, Junko Jomon Food Diversity, Climate Change and Long-term Sustainability: Lessons from Prehistoric Japan. , 2016.01.28, Willamette University, Oregon, USA.

・Habu, Junko Jomon Food Diversity, Climate Change and Long-term Sustainability: Lessons from Prehistoric Japan. , 2016.02.04, Arizona State University, USA.

・Habu, Junko Key Note Speech: Food Diversity and Climate Change: Case Studies from the Early to Middle Jomon Period. Society of Archaeological Studies, 62nd General Meeting, 2016.04.16-2016.04.17, . (in Japanese)

・Habu, Junko Food Diversity, Climate Change and the Resilience Human-Environmental Interaction: A Case Study from the Jomon Period. Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2016, 2016.05.22-2016.05.26, Makuhari Messe, Chiba City, Chiba. (in Japanese)

・Hamada, Shingo Seafood, Seascape and Shifting Baselines. Introduction Trans-Disciplinary Human Development, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, 2014.10.16, Sophia University, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo.

・Hamada, Shingo Herring Fisheries and Food Cultures in Japan. Sitka Herring Festival / Sitka Natural History Series, 2015.03.23, University of Alaska Southeast Campus, Sitka, Alaska, USA. DOI:http://www.sitkatribe.org/SitkaHerringFestival1.htm

・Hosoya, Leo Aoi Reconstructing Food Culture and the Society: The frontiers of archaeobotany and ethnoarchaeology of East Asian Neolithic. 54th Evolutional Biology Forum, 2015.09.21, Minzu University of China, Beijing, China.

・Kaner, Simon Metastable Ecosystems along the Shinano-Chikuma River, Central Japan: Challenges and Potential.. Talk at workshop in Historical Ecology in northeast Asia, September 2014, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA.

・Kawahata, Hodaka Quantitative Reconstruction of Atmospheric Temperature and its Correlation with Human Activity in Western Japan during the Holocene. The 8th International Congress of Asian Marine Geology, 2015.10.05-2015.10.10, Cheju Grand Hotel, Cheju, Korea.

・Kawahata. Hodaka Mass Extinction in Association with the High CO2 at the P/E Boundary and in Near Future due to Ocean Acidification Based upon Filed Observation and Culture Experiments. GSK-Korea Society of Mineral Resources and Petroleum Engineering Joint Session, 2015.10.18-2015.10.20, Cheju Mariott Hotel, Cheju, Korea.

・Matsui, A Keynote lecture: Threats on Cultural Heritage Caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami on March 11, 2011. The international conference Cultural Heritage: Environment, Ecology and Inter-Asian Interactions Conference, 2014.01.06-2014.01.08, Nalanda University, Rajgir, India.

・Naito, Daisuke Changing Landscape and Local Community in Kinabatangan, Sabah, Malaysia. UMS-TUFS Exchange Lecture on Culture and Society of Asia and Africa, 2016.03.15, University Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu.

・Pallud, Céline, Sarick Matzen, Anders Olson Effect of Soil Texture on Phytoremediation of Arsenic-contaminated Soils. American Geophysical Union, December 2015, San Francisco, CA, USA.

・Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Panelist at “Panel on Global Ocean Literacy”. 2015 National Marine Educators Association, 2015.06.29-2015.07.02, Newport, RI, USA.

・Takahashi, Satsuki Fukushima Future: Nukes, Renewables, and Temporal Momentums in Coastal Japan. , 2014.07.03, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba-City, Ibaraki-Ken.

・Takahashi, Satsuki Fukushima Future: Nuclear Disaster and Politics of Tomorrow in Coastal Japan. Socio Cultural Workshop, 2015.10.29, The University of Michigan, MI, USA.

・Takahashi, Satsuki The Ontology of Fukushima Future. The STS Speaker Series, 2015.11.30, The University of Michigan, MI, USA.

・Thornton, Thomas. F. Panel Chair, Discussant: “Culture, Food & The Environment: New Perspectives on Food Sovereignty and Security”. Oxford Food Forum, 2015.05.02, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

・Thornton, Thomas F., and Shingo Hamada Completing the Circle in Restoring Pacific Rim Herring Cultures.. Symposium on Comparative and Collaborative Studies of Indigenous Cultures along the North Pacific Rim, January 2014, NationalMuseum of Ethnology, Osaka.

・Weber, Andrzej. W. Holocene Hunter–Gatherers of Cis-Baikal (Siberia): An Individual Life History and Micro-Sampling. LAMPEA, 2015.07.10, Aix Marseille Université, Aix-en-Provence, France.

・Weber, Andrzej.W. The Importance of Units of Analysis in Archaeology. Graduate Student Seminar, 2015.10.21, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

・Weber A.W., Bronk Ramsey C., Schulting R., I. Sharlotta Geochemical Approaches to the Examination of Middle Holocene Hunter–Gatherers in the Baikal Region of Siberia: Review of Recent Advances. Annual Meetings of the European Association of Archaeologists, 2014.09.10-2014.09.14, Istanbul, Turkey.

・Weber, Steven The Spread of Setaria italic Into Southeast Asia: An Examination of the Archaeobotanical Record. Dispersion of People, Crops, and Language: Focusing on Millets in Asia, 2014.03.20-2014.03.21, National Institute of the Humanities, Tokyo.

・Weber, Steven The Rise and Fall of Cities in Prehistory: An Example From the Indus Civilization. RIHN 9th International Symposium Living in the Megacity: The Emergence of Sustainable Urban Environments, 2014.06.25-2014.06.27, Kita-Ku, Kyoto-City, Kyoto.

・Yoneda, Minoru Radiocarbon Dating on Bones: Lessons from Some Recent Studies in Japan. Workshop Radiocarbon in Japanese Archaeology, 2014.04.08, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Norwich, U.K..

・Yoneda, Minoru Maritime Adaptation on the Japanese Archipelago in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene. International Workshop on the Ancient and Mediaeval Marine Eco-history and Environmental History of Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean, 2014.11.12, University of Haifa, Israel.