Angelika Viets: Preface Shôji Makoto: Greetings to the Symposium Tanabe Ikuo: Prologue – Japanese Archaeology Today Ono Akira: The Upper Paleolithic of the Japanese Archipelago: Dating and Criteria for Comparison Inada Takashi: Settlement and Hunting in the Japanese Upper Paleolithic Period Nicholas J. Conard: Early Figurative Art and Musical Instruments from Swabia Michael Baales: Climate, Environment and Archaeology at the End of the Last Glacial Period in Central Europe Okada Yasuhiro: The Jômon Sannai-Maruyama Site – Excavations and Results Okamura Michio: The Sannai-Maruyama Settlement in the Context of Jômon Culture. Changes of Settlement Forms and Ways of Life During the Jomon Period Tsuji Seiichirô: The Ecosystem of the Sannai-Maruyama Site. Characteristics of the Culture and Ecosystem of the Jômon Period Harunari Hideji: From Jômon to Yayoi. An Analysis Based on the Early Yayoi Custom of Tooth Extraction and on Burial Grounds Shiraishi Taichirô: From Yayoi to Kofun – The Emergence of the Country of the Wa and Its Culture Tanabe Ikuo: The Beginning of a New Age. The Establishment of an Autocratic Unified State and the Adoption of Buddhism Werner E. Stöckli: On the Use of Chronology and Periodization for European Prehistoryweiterlesen