Dr Junzo Uchiyama is a zooarchaeologist and environmental archaeologist whose research focuses on long-term human–animal–environment interactions in Northeast Asia, particularly the Japanese archipelago. Over the past three decades, he has explored hunter-gatherer adaptations, demographic change, subsistence strategies, and cultural responses to environmental instability through zooarchaeology, GIS, stable isotope analysis, and comparative archaeology.

Within FORAGER, Junzo contributes expertise on Jomon archaeology and helps develop datasets on demography, settlement, subsistence, and cultural variation. A key aspect of his work is helping make Japan’s exceptionally rich archaeological record accessible to wider international research, connecting Japanese evidence with global comparative studies of Holocene foraging societies and long-term human adaptation.

Find out more about Junzo here.