Werner SteinhausThomas Knopf is Professor of Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Tubingen in Germany. He has conducted fieldwork at some of the largest Celtic settlements in Europe. He works on theoretical themes including the concept of continuity, and is a pecialist in human-environments relationships in prehistory. He works together with soils scientists and archaeobotanists focussing on the development and the perception of landscapes. Werner Steinhaus is Lecturer in Archaeology at Hiroshima University in Japan. After graduating from Freiburg University in Germany he undertook postgraduate research at ?saka University in Japan, specialising in the archaeology of the Kofun period. He curated the largest overseas exhibition of Japanese archaeology Die Zeit der Morgenrote, held in Germany in 2004-2005. Fukunaga Shin'ya is Professor of Archaeology at the Graduate School of Letters at Osaka University in Japan. He graduated and received his doctorate from the Department of History, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University. Professor Fukunaga is a member of the Science Council of Japan and the Committee for the World Heritage Inscription of the Mozu-Furuichi Kofun groups of mounted tombs. His publications include From the Yamatai Kingdom to the Yamato Court (Osaka University Press, in Japanese). Read More Read Less