Settlement behavior in the Kanto Plain during the Japanese Paleolithic based on lithic raw material procurement and consumption

In sum, the embedded lithic procurement system in Japan during this period was largely changed by ecological deterioration. Patterns transitioned from general resource exploitation in the early period to seasonal movement between isolated resource-rich areas during the Last Glacial Maximum, resulting in significant change from the mobile hunter-gather society at the end of the Late Pleistocene to the sedentary society of the Holocene.