Papers originally presented at a symposium held at the World Archaeological Congress Inter-Congress in Osaka, Japan on 12-15 January, 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Kazunobu Ikeya, Hidefumi Ogawa, Peter Mitchell -- Archaeology in Africa and Asia. Hunter-gatherers and farmers : stone implications of 1,800 years of interaction in the Maloti-Drakensberg region of Southern Africa / Peter Mitchellm -- Prehistoric coexistence : the expansion of farming society from the Yangzi River Valley to western South China / Tracey L-D Lu -- Archaeological approaches to the interdependent relationships between prehistoric hunter-gatherer and farmer societies / Hidefumi Ogawa -- Jomon, Yayoi, and Ainu in Japan. Symbiotic relations between paddy-field rice cultivators and hunter-gatherer-fishers in Japanese prehistory : archaeological considerations of the transition from the Jomon age to the Yayoi age / Ryuzaburou Takahashi -- Sacred commonness : an archaeobotanical approach to Yayoi social stratification : the 'central building model' and the Osaka Ikegami Sone Site / Leo Aoi Hosoya -- Interaction between the Ainu of Hokkaido and Honshu Japanese during the past 1,000 years : use pattern analysis of wooden artefacts from the Ishikari lowland / Kaoru Tezuka -- Ethnology and linguistics. Contemporary relations between Agta and their farming neighbours in the northern Sierra Madre of Philippines / Tessa Minter -- Resource contestation between hunter-gatherer and farmer societies : revisiting the Mlabri and the Hmong communities in northern Thailand / Sakkarin Na Nan -- Historical and contemporary relations between Mlabri and Hmong in northern Thailand / Kazunobu Ikeya, Shinsuke Nakai -- Hunter-gatherer and farmer symbiosis from a linguist's point of view / Lawrence A. Reid