Changes in Behavioral and Technological Adaptation around the LGM in Eurasia

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International Workshop
Changes in Behavioral and Technological Adaptation around the LGM in Eurasia
(2nd LGM workshop in Tokyo)

We are pleased to announce the international workshop Changes in Behavioral and Technological
Adaptation around the LGM in Eurasia to be held November 29, 2013 at Tokyo Metropolitan University(TMU). The workshop will focus mainly on reviewing behavioral evidence of Upper Paleolithic sites around　the LGM in Europe, the Transbaikal, Northern China, and Hokkaido. We will host a similar workshop next　year in preparation for the 2015 XIX INQUA Congress in Nagoya, JAPAN focusing on LGM prehistory in Northeast Asia.
Venue
Room 307, Building No. 6, Minami-Osawa campus, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Address: 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, Japan 192-0397
Directions to the Minami-Osawa campus, TMU:
http://www.tmu.ac.jp/english/university/access.html#mapminamiosawa
Directions to the conference room at TMU:
http://www.tmu.ac.jp/english/university/campusmap.html

Organizers
Masami Izuho (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan)
Yuichi Nakazawa (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Ian Buvit (Central Washington University, USA)
Karisa Terry (Central Washington University, USA)
Hiroyuki Sato (The University of Tokyo)

Languages
Official language is English.

Time table
29 (Friday), NOV 2013
10:30-10:50 Registration
10:50-11:00 Masami Izuho (TMU): Introduction
Session 1: Europe (Chair: Masami Izuho)
11:00-11:40 Olaf Jöris (MONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human
Behavioural Evolution, Germany), Tim Matthies (MONREPOS), and Alexander Verpoorte (Leiden
University): Towards the Cold - Behavioral Adaptations at the Northern Boundary of the Early Upper
Palaeolithic Oikumene.
11:40-12:10 Nicolas Teyssandier (National Center for Scientific Research, France): Cycles of change
across the French Early and Mid Upper Palaeolithic.
12:10-13:30 Lunch Break
Session 2: Southwestern Transbaikal and Northeastern China (Chair: Karisa Terry)
13:30-13:50 Alexander V. Konstantinov (Transbaikal State University, Russia): Lagernaya: Newly
Discovered MUP site in Ust’-Menza Archaeological complex.
13:50-14:10 Victor K. Kolosov (Cultural Affair of Zabaikalsky Krai, Russia): Geological and Archaeological
Context of Priiskovoe in Southwestern Transbaikal (Russia).
14:10-14:30 Ian Buvit and Karisa Terry (CWU, USA): A Tale of Two Blades: LGM Lithic Variability in
Southwestern Transbaikal, Siberia
14:30-15:00 Wang Chunxue (Jilin University, China): Recent Progress in Paleolithic Research in
Northeastern China and Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Jinshitai Cave.
15:00-15:20 Break
Session 3: Hokkaido (Chair: Yuichi Nakazawa)
15:20-15:40 Kazuhiro Hayashi, Yuichi Nakazawa, and Masami Izuho: On the spatial patterns of artifact
scatters at the LGM site of Kashiwadai 1, Hokkaido.
15:40-16:00 Fumito Akai (Kagoshima Board of Education, Japan) and Yuichi Nakazawa: Production of the
LGM microblades: an examination of the refitted microblade/blade cores from the Kashiwadai 1,
Hokkaido.
16:00-16:20 Akira Iwase (TMU, Japan) and Yuichi Nakazawa: A functional analysis of chipped stone tools
from the LGM microblade assemblages in Hokkaido, northern Japan.
16:20-16:40 Karisa Terry, Masami Izuho, and Noriyoshi Oda: Changes in Hunter-Gatherer mobility Strategy
around LGM in Southern Paleo-SHK Peninsula: Integration of Obsidian Sourcing and Lithic Macroscopic
Approaches.
16:40-17:00 Break
17:00-17:30 Discussion (Chair: Ian Buvit)
18:00-20:00 Conference Banquet (no charge for invited speakers)
Hotel Accommodations
We will help you make reservations at hotels in Hashimoto City, 10 minutes from the workshop venue by train but for Foreign Participant ONLY. Cost per night will be around 5,000JPY.

Contact:Masami Izuho
Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities,
Tokyo Metropolitan University
Minami-Osawa 1-1, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo 192-0397 Japan
TEL: [phone], FAX: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]