*Danielle McLean¹, Paul Albert², Takeshi Nakagawa³, Richard Staff⁴, Takehiko Suzuki⁵, Sophie Vineberg¹, Gwydion Jones², Christina Manning⁶, Keitaro Yamada³, Ikuko Kitaba³, SG06/SG14 Project Members, Victoria Smith¹ (1.School of Archaeology, University of Oxford, UK, 2.Department of Geography, College of Science, Swansea University, UK, 3.Research Centre for Palaeoclimatology, Ritsumeikan University, Japan, 4.Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre, University of Glasgow, UK, 5.Department of Geography, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan,, 6.Department of Geography, Royal Holloway University of London, UK)