Introduction : archaeological approaches toward the concept and practice of "coexistence" / Naoko Matsumoto, Hidetaka Bessho and Makoto Tomii -- The cognitive foundation of long-distance interaction and its relation to social contexts / Naoko Matsumoto -- The role of long-distance interaction in the sociocultural changes in Yayoi period, Japan / Satoru Nakazono -- The assimilation process in the Yayoi society of western Japan : was there a coexistence of different cultural groups? / Kazunori Misaka and Kunihiko Wakabayashi -- Coexistence in prehistoric Guangdong, South China / Tracey L-D. Lu -- Technological choices among maritime potter-traders : the Mare islanders of northern Maluku (Indonesia) and other comparative cases / Akira Goto -- The use of livestock carcasses in Japanese history : an archaeological perspective / Akira Matsui -- Changes in the perception of cattle and horses in ancient Japanese society / Hiroshi Sekiyama -- The diverse activities of the Kugonin at the medieval period Nishinotsuji Site, Osaka / Hidetaka Bessho -- Contact between indigenous people and immigrants in broad-leafed evergreen forests : plant utilization during the final Jomon period in southwestern Japan / Yudai Itakura -- The diffusion process of red burnished jars and rice paddy-field agriculture from the southern part of the Korean peninsula to the Japanese archipelago / Shinpei Hashino -- The diversity of mortuary practice acceptance at the beginning of Yayoi period / Daisuke Nakamura -- The imitation and hybridization of Korean peninsula-style earthenware in the northern Kyushu area during Yayoi period / Yoichi Kawakami.