ABSTRACT

CONTENTS 13.1 A Brief Review of Spatial Archaeology .................................................175 13.2 The Sannai-Maruyama Archaeological Project.....................................177 13.3 Present Nature of the Area Surrounding the Sannai-Maruyama

Archaeological Site ....................................................................................177 13.4 Construction of a Spatio-Temporal GIS Database ...............................179 13.5 Reconstruction of the Paleosynecology .................................................182 13.6 Site-Catchment Analysis of the Reconstructed Paleoenvironment......... 183 13.7 Beyond Spatial Archaeology....................................................................188 Achnowledgments ..............................................................................................189 References.............................................................................................................189