According to a correction, the Wakoku War comes under the latter to end of the Kinai V period, which has no periodical consistency with upland settlements, and theory stating upland settlements were not related to the Wakoku War, became the mainstream.
倭国大乱は畿内V期後半～末に該当し、畿内IV期の高地性集落とは時代的に整合的でないとされ、これらは倭国大乱とは無関係とする意見が主流を占めるようになった。