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Jomon and Yayoi Chronologies in Aomori Prefecture
Middle Jomon Chronology for Southwest Kanto
Jomon Dates by Region and Dating Method
Prehistoric and Historic Chronology of the Okinawa/Ryukyuan Archipelago

Research Reports

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A Model for the Origins of the Japanese Paleolithic
Prehistoric and Historic Settlement Patterns in the Takase River Drainage, Northeastern Japan
Oldest Coins in Japan Found Recently
Dirt and Japan's Early Palaeolithic Hoax
An Explanation of the Large Pillars at the Sannai Maruyama Site
The Story of the Excavation of the Yamanesakue and Haketaue Sites in Hamura
Table of Pleistocene Human Fossils from Japan
The First Radiocarbon Dates for Japan
Bad Science and the Distortion of History: Radiocarbon Dating in Japanese Archaeology
"Fakery" at the Beginning, the Ending and the Middle of the Jomon Period. (on a different web site)
English-Language Bibliography for Jomon Subsistence and Diet Studies
List of Books (in Japanese) with the Main Character a Japanese Archaeologist Doing Japanese Archaeology
Academic Elitists and Elite Academics: An Essay
A Criticism of Wikipedia: Wikipedia and Japanese Archaeology
A Bibliography of Publications on Japanese Archaeology and Prehistory by Westerners

Research Projects

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Japan's Early Palaeolithic Hoax (index page)
Selected research reports:

A Critical Look at the Palaeolithic and "Lower Palaeolithic" Research in Miyagi Prefecture (1986)
A Model for the Origins of the Japanese Palaeolithic (1991)
Ethical Codes and Professional Standards (2001)

The New Japanese "Middle Palaeolithic" (index page)
Contact Archaeology: Japan and the West (index page)

Fieldtrip Photographs

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Research Projects

Japan's Early Palaeolithic Hoax

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Pre-exposure Papers
Summary of: Oda Shizuo, 1985, Doubts about the Stone Artifacts and Dates for the Miyagi Early Palaeolithic Sites
A Model for the Origins of the Japanese Palaeolithic
Commentators' Comments on "A Model"
Presenter's Response to Commentators' Comments
A Cultural Anthropological Perspective on the Question of Early and Middle Palaeolithic Cultures in Japan
Summary of: Takeoka Toshiki, 1998, How Can We Understand about the Lower Palaeolithic?
Comments on: Shukan Shincho, March 9, 2000 -- Can the "500,000-Year-Old Site" Really Be Believed?
Early & Middle Palaeolithic Lecture Notes, Fall Semester 2000
Japan's Changing Early Palaeolithic Controversy -- One Person's Views 1973-2000
Post-exposure Papers
Japanese Scandals -- This Time It's Archaeology: A Preliminary Report
How Fabrication of Two Early Palaeolithic Sites Has Damaged All of Japanese Archaeology
America's Clovis vs. Pre-Clovis Controversy and Japan's Early Palaeolithic Controversy: A Comparison of Approaches
The Early Palaeolithic Scandal -- A Few Comments on the Scientific Approach
Ethical Codes and Professional Standards
Cultural Resources Laws on the Internet
Comparisons of Home Pages of Professional Organizations
Dirt and Japan's Early Palaeolithic Hoax

Japan's New "Middle Palaeolithic"

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First Comments (September 11, 2003)
List of Proposed Middle Palaeolithic Sites
Discussions of Individual Sites
Media Comments by Leading Archaeologists and Other Scientists
List of Assumptions and Stereotypes Being Repeated
List of Related Sites on the Asiatic Continent
Problems in the News Media
Local Promotion (Mura Okoshi)
Research Methodologies and Methodological Problems
Hypotheses about the First Peopling of the Japanese Islands

Contact Archaeology: Japan and the West

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