A New Archaeology Initiative to Elucidate the Formation Process of Chinese Civilization

Achievements

The names of project members are underlined.

A01 Group

2023.4~2024.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Junmei Sawada, Guoping Sun, Weijin Huang, Shinji Kubota, Fumiko Saeki, Kenji Okazaki,Minoru Yoneda, Shin’ichi Nakamura. 2023. Paleopathological characteristics of Neolithic early rice farmers in the lower reaches of the Yangtze river, Frontiers in Earth Science, vol.11 　LINK
  • Takuya Nankawa, Yurina Sekine, Daiju Matsumura, Kosuke Hiroi, Shin-ichi Takata, Yoshimi Kamiya, and Takayuki Honda. 2023. Effects of Fe Ions, Ultraviolet Irradiation, and Heating on Microscopic Structures of Black Lacquer Films, Langmuir, vol.40, pp. 5725-5730. LINK
Presentation
  • Rinta Tani, Takayuki Honda. Synthesis of PAC and evaluation as a diluent, The 13th International Polymer Conference (IPC2023) 2023

2022.4~2023.3

Presentation
  • Shogo Kume, Yuji Yamaguchi, Yuichi S. Hayakawa. Examining early nomadic herders’ migrations to high pastures in the Central Tien Shan in the Bronze Age. Mathematical geographical modelling for environmental humanities: workshop in 2022. July 6, 2022 (Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Kyoto University)
  • Shinichi NAKAMURA. Moated settlements in Late Neolithic China and their social implication. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. Jul.3,2022 (Online)
  • Yumiko Murakami, Masashi Kobayashi. The ethnoarchaeological research on tops. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. Jul.3,2022 (Online)
  • Shinji KUBOTA, Masashi KOBAYASHI, Yoshiki MIYATA, Bin LIU, Ningyuan WANG, Minghui CHEN. The use of cooking pots in Liangzhu culture. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022. (Online)
  • Akiko HORIUCHI, Yoshiki MIYATA, Shinji KUBOTA, Masashi KOBAYASHI, Nobuo MIYAUCHI, Bin LIU, Ningyuan WANG, Minghui CHEN, Yonglei WANG, Shinichi NAKAMURA. First molecular signature of common millet from the Liangzhu archaeological complex. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022. (Online)

2020.4~2021.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Katsunori Tanaka, Chunfang Zhao, Ningyuan Wang, Shinji Kubota, Masaaki Kanehara, Nobuhiko Kamijo, Ryuji Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Tasaki, Minako Kanehara, Bin Liu, Minghui Chen, Shin-ichi Nakamura, Tetsuro Udatsu, Cailin Wang, 2020. Classification of archaic rice grains excavated at the Mojiaoshan site within the Liangzhu site complex reveals an Indica and Japonica chloroplast complex. Food Production, Processing and Nutrition, Vol. 2(1) LINK

A02 Group

2023.4~2024.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Kuan-Wen Wang, Laure Dussubieux, Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Kuang-ti Li, Cheng-hwa Tsang  2023 Glass ornaments from southwestern Taiwan: new light on maritime glass exchange across Southeast, South and West Asia in the early-mid 1st millennium CE. Heritage Science, Heritage Science 11. LINK 　

2022.4~2023.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Wang KW, Y Iizuka, C Jackson, 2022. The production technology of mineral soda alumina glass: a perspective from microstructural analysis of glass beads in Iron Age Taiwan. PLOS ONE. (Peer-Reviewed Article)  LINK
  • Ayako Shibutani, Tomoya Aono, Yukihito Nagaya, 2022. Starch granules from human teeth: New clues on the Epi-Jomon diet, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 10: 907666. (Peer-Reviewed Article)  LINK
  • José María Rodanés-Vicente, José Antonio Cuchí-Oterino, Takeshi Minami, Kazuya Takahashi, Jesús Martín-Gil, José Ignacio Lorenzo-Lizalde, Pablo Martín-Ramos, 2023. Use of cinnabar in funerary practices in the Central Pyrenees. Analysis of pigments on bones from the burial of the Cueva de la Sierra cave in Campodarbe (Huesca, Spain). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 48 (2023) 103849. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK　
Presentation
  • Ayako Shibutani. Archaeobotanical Evidence of Dietary Variation in Dental Calculus: Case Studies of Prehistoric Hunter-gatherers in Northern Japan. 9th World Archaeological Congress (WAC-9). July 8, 2022（Online）
  • Takeshi MINAMI, Kazuya TAKAHASHI, Yoshimi KAMIYA. The use of Chinese vermilion in ancient Japanese sites revealed by isotope analysis. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022. (Online)

2021.4~2022.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Wang KW, KT Li, Y Iizuka, YK Hsieh, C Jackson, 2021. Glass beads from Guishan in Iron Age Taiwan: bead exchange in Taiwan and between Southeast Asia. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol. 35:102737.  (Peer-Reviewed Article)  LINK
  • Georjon C, U Aung Aung Kyaw, Daw Tin Tin Win, Daw Thu Thu Win, B Pradier, A Willis, P Petchey, Y. Iizuka, E. Gonthier, J Pelegrin, B Bellina, TO Pryce, 2021. Late Neolithic to Early-Mid Bronze Age semi-precious stone bead production and consumption at Oakaie and Nyaung’gan in central-northern Myanmar. Archaeological Research in Asia, Vol. 25:100240. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Ayako Shibutani, 2022. Scientific study advancements: Analysing Japanese historical materials using archaeobotany and digitalhumanities, Academia Letters, Article 4628. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Takeshi Minami, Akinori Takeuchi, Setsuo Imazu, Masayoshi Okuyama, Yu Higashikage, Toshinori Mizuno, Kosaku Okabayashi, Kazuya Takahashi, 2021. Identification of Source Mine using Sulfur, Mercury, and Lead Isotope Analyses of Vermilion used in Three Representative Tombs from Kofun Period in Japan, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol.37: 102970. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
Presentation
  • Yoshiyuki Iizuka, Wakako Chikara, Yasuo Miyabuchi. Lithological study of ancient roof tiles in the Gyokusen-kan Collection of the Kyushu University Museum, Japan, 台湾考古学会2021年年会, October 30, 2021
  • Yoshiyuki Iizuka. Metallurgical Study of Anyang Bronze Objects in the Academia Sinica Collection: Experimental Investigation of Bronze Casting Technology, オーストラリア国立大学 シリーズレクチャー：中国考古学（第18回）, October 6, 2021 (Online)

A03 Group

2022.4~2023.3

Presentation
  • Kikusawa, Ritsuko. 2023. Comments on Session 4: Metamorphosis of Languages INDOWS International Symposium 2023. December 10, 2023, Osaka Universit
  • Kikusawa, Ritsuko. 2023. Integrating Linguistic and Non-linguistic Data: A Case Study and Potentials of Future GIS, presented at the International Symposium and Workshop “Compiling GIS for Integrating Linguistic and Non-linguistic Information” September 22nd – 25th, 2023, at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.
  • Kikusawa, Ritsuko. 2023. Show and Tell Session 2: JSPS Kikusawa Project: On-going GIS data (β version, available online), presented at the International Symposium and Workshop “Compiling GIS for Integrating Linguistic and Non-linguistic Information” September 22nd – 25th, 2023, at the National Museum of Ethnology, Japan.

2022.4~2023.3

Presentation
  • Nobuya Watanabe. Spatial simulation of the path networks in the Neolithic Period: A preliminary study. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022 (Online)
  • Masashi KOBAYASHI, Shinji KUBOTA. Cross-cultural comparison of normal rice steaming ethnographies: For better understanding of the Lianzhu Culture rice steaming. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022 (Online)
  • Yuko OKAWA. Inheritance of livelihood strategy: Lower Yangtze River and Hai dai area before the Tang dynasty. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022 (Online)
  • Koichi MURAMATSU. The Road to ZhongYuan in ancient China：Where did people and horse cross the Yellow river. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022 (Online)

2021.4~2022.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Kikusawa, R. and F. Sano (eds), 2022. Fijian Language, Culture, and Their Representation (Senri Ethnological Studies 108), Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, p. 182. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Kikusawa, R. and F. Sano, 2022. Introduction. Fijian Language, Culture, and Their Representation (Senri Ethnological Studies 108), Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, pp. 1-6. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Kikusawa, R., 2022. Linguistic Mapping and Historical Analyses: Vertical and Horizontal Transmission and Potential GIS Applications. Fijian Language, Culture, and Their Representation (Senri Ethnological Studies 108), Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, pp. 75-100. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Kikusawa, R. and J. H. Lowry, 2022. Developing a Fijian Language Geographic Information System. Fijian Language, Culture, and Their Representation (Senri Ethnological Studies 108), Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, pp. 101-108. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Kikusawa, R., 2022. A Pilot Research on Kadavu Data for the Fijian Language GIS Project. Fijian Language, Culture, and Their Representation (Senri Ethnological Studies 108), Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, pp. 119-135. (Peer-Reviewed Article)

B01 Group

2023.4~2024.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Yongxiu Lu, Feng Gao, Yiren Wang, Minmin Ma, Aifeng Zhou, Ruiliang Liu, Hiroki Kikuchi, Lele Ren, Qingfeng Shao, Lin Chen, Yongxiang Xu, Haoran Li, Guanghui Dong. (2023) Diversification of faunal exploitation strategy and human-climate interaction in Southern China and Southeast Asia during the last deglaciation, Quaternary Science Reviews 322, pp.1-13.  LINK
  • Xiayire Xiaokaiti, Takao Sato, Kenji Kasai, Kenichi Machida, Kyomi Yamazaki, Naomitsu Yamaji, Hiroki Kikuchi, Jun Gojobori1, Hitomi Hongo, Yohey Terai, Takashi Gakuhari. (2023) The history of ancient Japanese dogs revealed by mitogenomes, Anthropological Science, pp.1-11.  LINK 
  • Kai-hsuan Hsu, Masaki Eda. 2023. Poultry consumed by the Dutch in the Dejima trading post, Nagasaki, Japan. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 49: 104008.  LINK
  • Masaki Eda, Hiroe Izumi, Minoru Yoneda and Saburo Fujita. 2023. The earliest evidence of domestic chickens in the Japanese Archipelago. Frontiers in Earth Science 11.  LINK
  • Angelos Hadjikoumis, Benjamin S. Arbuckle, Susan D. de France, Arati Deshpande-Mukherjee, Masaki Eda, Rosalind E. Gillis, Hitomi Hongo, Anneke Janzen, Cheryl A. Makarewicz, Erin Kennedy Thornton, Elizabeth Wright. 2023. Animal Domestication. Reference Module in Social Sciences. Elsevier.   LINK
Presentation
  • Hiroki Kikuchi, Jianrong Chong, Takashi Gakuhari「Horse feeding management in the Western Zhou Dynasty」『14th International Council for Archaeozoology Conference』2023年8月11日（オーストラリア・ケアンズコンベンションセンター）
  • Masaki Eda, Hiroe Izumi1, Minoru Yoneda, Saburo Fujita. Were chickens successively bred during the Yayoi period in Japan? Collagen peptide fingerprinting and radiocarbon dating approaches. 14th International Council for Archaeozoology. 10 August 2023 (Cairns, Australia).
  • Kai-hsuan Hsu, Masaki Eda. Poultry consumption in early modern (17th–19th centuries) Nagasaki, Japan. 14th International Council for Archaeozoology. 10 August 2023 (Cairns, Australia).

2022.4~2023.3

Presentation
  • Hiroki KIKUCHI. The Road of pastoralism: Aiming to propose a new historical perspective of Eastern Eurasian livestock culture. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022. (Online)

2021.4~2022.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Hitomi Hongo, Hiroki Kikuchi, Hiroo Nasu, 2021. Beginning of pig management in Neolithic China: comparison of domestication processes between northern and southern regions. Animal Frontiers, Vol. 11(3): 30–42. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Masaki EDA, Yu ITAHASHI, Hiroki KIKUCHI, Guoping SUN, Kai-hsuan HSU, Takashi GAKUHARI, Minoru YONEDA, Leping JIANG, Guomei YANG, Shinichi NAKAMURA, 2022. Multiple lines of evidence of early goose domestication in a 7000-y-old rice cultivation village in the lower Yangtze River, China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119 (12): e2117064119. (Peer-Reviewed Article)　LINK
  • Masaki EDA, 2021. Origin of the domestic chicken from modern biological and zooarchaeological approaches. Animal Frontiers, Vol. 11: 52-61. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Kai-hsuan HSU, Masaki EDA, Hiroki KIKUCHI, Guoping SUN, 2021. Neolithic avifaunal resource utilisation in the lower Yangtze River: A case study of the Tianluoshan site. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol. 37: 102929. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Arai, S. 2022a. Neolithic bone tools and ornaments from Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe. In Y. Nishiaki, F. Guliyev and S. Kadowaki (eds.) Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe: The Archaeological Excavations of An Early Neolithic Settlement in West Azerbaijan. Berlin: ex Oriente. pp. 159-176. 
  • Arai, S. 2022b. Neolithic animal remains from Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe. In Y. Nishiaki, F. Guliyev and S. Kadowaki (eds.) Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe: The Archaeological Excavations of An Early Neolithic Settlement in West Azerbaijan. Berlin: ex Oriente. pp. 195-224. 
  • Nishiaki, Y., O. Aripdjanov, S. Arai, C. Akashi, H. Nakata, B. Sayfullayev, O. Engeshed and R. Suleimanov 2022. Neolithization during the 6th millennium BC in western Central Asia: New evidence from Kaynar Kamar Rockshelter, Hissar Mountains, Southeast Uzbekistan. Archaeological Research in Asia, Vol. 30: 100352. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
Presentation
  • Arai, S., A. Zeynalov, F. Guliyev and Y. Nishiaki. The beginning of livestock economy in the Southern Caucasus: New evidence from west Azerbaijan. The Neolithic Transition in the Caspian Sea Region. Nov. 6, 2021(Novosibirsk, Russia, online).
News

2020.4~2021.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Masaki EDA, Minoru Morimoto, Toshifumi Mizuta and Takao Inoué, 2020. ZooMS for birds: discrimination of Japanese archaeological chickens and indigenous pheasants using collagen peptide fingerprinting. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, Vol. 34: 102635. LINK
  • Masaki EDA, 2020. The osteological microevolution of red junglefowl and domestic fowl under the domestication process. Quaternary International, Available online. LINK

B02 Group

2023.4~2024.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Koichi Tanabe, Honoka Hayashi, Natsuki Murakami, Yoko Yoshiyama, Jun Shima, Shinya Shoda 2023 Glazing Affects the Fermentation Process of Sake Brewed in Pottery. Foods 13(1), pp.121. 
  • Endo, E., Shoda, S., Frachetti, M.,  Kaliyeva, Z.,  Kiyasbek,G., Zhuniskhanov, A., Liu, X., Dupuy,P.D. 2023. Pottery Impressions Reveal Earlier Westward Dispersal of Foxtail Millet in Inner Asian Mountain Corridor. Agronomy (13)7, 1706. LINK 
  • Fuzuki Mizuno, Fuyuki Tokanai, Masahiko Kumagai, Koji Ishiya, Saburo Sugiyama, Michiko Hayashi, Kunihiko Kurosaki, Shintaroh Ueda. 2023. Bioarchaeological study of ancient Teotihuacans based on complete mitochondrial genome sequences and diet isotopes. Annals of human biology. 50(1):390-398　
  • Luca Nishimura, Akio Tanino, Mayumi Ajimoto, Takafumi Katsumura, Motoyuki Ogawa, Kae Koganebuchi,  Daisuke Waku, Masahiko Kumagai, Ryota Sugimoto, Hirofumi Nakaoka, Hiroki Oota, Ituro Inoue. 2024. Metagenomic analyses of 7000 to 5500 years old coprolites excavated from the Torihama shell-mound site in the Japanese archipelago. PLOS one. 19(1) e0295924
Presentation
  • Shinya Shoda. Peeking into ancient Central Asian pastoralist cuisine by organic residue analysis. Environments, Land Use, and Urbanization in Ancient Central Asia. 2024年1月25日 (Volkshaus in Jena)
  • Masahiko Kumagai, Norio Tabei, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Hiroaki Sakai and Takeshi Itoh,「TASUKE+: A Web-Based Platform for Visualizing Large-Scale Resequencing Data and GWAS」『Plant and Animal Genomes Conference 31』 2024年１月12日（米国、カリフォルニア州）
  • Takumi Nishiuchi, Hideki Saito, Natsuki Murakami, Seiji Nakayama and Shinya Shoda “Proteomics Approach to the Biomolecule Degradation of Indigo Dyeing Vessel Deposits” 42nd conference on Dyes in History and Archaeology. Copenhagen (Denmark) 2023年11月
  • Edward A Standall, Paula Dupuy, Michael Frachetti, Zhanargul Kalieva, Aidyn Zhuniskhanov, Alexandre Lucquin, Helen Talbo, Oliver Craig, Shinya Shoda. Investigating the use of broomcorn millet (P. miliaceum) in culinary activities across East Kazakhstan throughout the Bronze Age. 10th Meeting of the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology. 2023年9月13日 (National Museum of Estonia)
  • TAKEI, Emiko, “Millet Homecoming  in Okinawa: Local memories and Seed Conservation”, Association of Asian Studies in Asia, 2023年６月25日（韓国、大邱、慶北大学）

2022.4~2023.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Enrico R. Crema, Chris J. Stevens, Shinya Shoda, 2022. Bayesian analyses of direct radiocarbon dates reveal geographic variations in the rate of rice farming dispersal in prehistoric Japan. Science Advances 8(38): eadc9171. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Chris J. Stevens, Enrico R. Crema, Shinya Shoda, 2022. The importance of wild resources as a reflection of the resilience and changing nature of early agricultural systems in East Asia and Europe. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 1017909.　(Peer-Reviewed Article)　LINK
  • Natsuki Murakami, Akhan Onggaruly, Saule Rakhimzhanova, Edward A. Standall, Helen M. Talbot, Alexandre Lucquin, Miho Suzuki, Arhat Karimagambetov, Abdinur Nuskabay, Sang-Won Nam, Oliver E. Craig, Shinya Shoda, 2022. Lipid residues in ancient pastoralist pottery from Kazakhstan reveal regional differences in cooking practices. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10: 1032637.　 (Peer-Reviewed Article)　LINK
Presentation
  • Shinya Shoda. Visualizing the “invisible rice” in biomolecular archeology. Exploring future avenues in Pan Asian rice domestication and agriculture studies. November 26, 2022. (Seoul National University Asia Centre)
  • Shinya Shoda. Why aquatic oils in the Jōmon? Comparing lipid residues between pottery and furnace stones and from examination of isotopic mixing curves. Early Pottery in the North: New Perspectives. November 8, 2022. (The British Museum)
  • Shinya Shoda. Organic Residue Analysis of Pottery: Principles and Applications in Central Asia. 9th International Archaeological School (IAS). September 20, 2022 (International Institute for Central Asian Studies)
  • Shinya SHODA. Intensification of starchy food cooking? Biomolecular and isotopic evidence from Majiabang culture pottery, Neolithic China. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022. (Online)
  • Natsuki MURAKAMI. New evidence of millet consumption in the Early Iron Age of Kazakhstan by pottery lipid residue analysis. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022. (Online)

2021.4~2022.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Melissa M. Ritchey, Yufeng Sun, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute, Shinya Shoda, Anil K. Pokharia, Michael Spate, Li Tang, Jixiang Song, Haiming Li, Guanghui Dong, Petra Vaiglova, Michael Frachetti & Xinyi Liu, 2022. The wind that shakes the barley: the role of East Asian cuisines on barley grain size. World Archaeology, ahead of print. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Cёда Синья 2021. Выявление растений, приготовленных в керамической посуде, с помощью археологического и биохимического методов исследований. Мультидисциплинарные исследования в археологии, 2021-2, pp. 60-88.
  • Shinya Shoda, 2021. Seeking Prehistoric Fermented Food in Japan and Korea. Current Anthropology, Vol. 62: S24, pp. S242–S255. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Shinya Shoda, OrcID, Hiroo Nasu, Kohei Yamazaki, Natsuki Murakami, Geon-Ju Na, Sung-Mo Ahn, Minoru Yoneda, 2021. Dry or Wet? Evaluating the Initial Rice Cultivation Environment on the Korean Peninsula. Agronomy, Vol.11(5): 929. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Enrico R. Crema, Shinya Shoda, 2021. A Bayesian approach for fitting and comparing demographic growth models of radiocarbon dates: A case study on the Jomon-Yayoi transition in Kyushu (Japan). PLOS ONE, Vol. 16(5): e0251695. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Nobuhiro Tanaka, Matthew Shenton, Yoshihiro Kawahara, Masahiko Kumagai, Hiroaki Sakai, Hiroyuki Kanamori, Jun-Ichi Yonemaru, Shinichi Fukuoka, Kazuhiko Sugimoto, Masao Ishimoto, Jianzhong Wu, Kaworu Ebana, 2021. Investigation of the Genetic Diversity of a Rice Core Collection of Japanese Landraces using Whole-Genome Sequencing. Plant & cell physiology, Vol.61(12): 2087-2096. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Fuzuki Mizuno, Jun Gojobori, Masahiko Kumagai, Hisao Baba, Yasuhiro Taniguchi, Osamu Kondo, Masami Matsushita, Takayuki Matsushita, Fumihiko Matsuda, Koichiro Higasa, Michiko Hayashi, Li Wang, Kunihiko Kurosaki, Shintaroh Ueda, 2021. Population dynamics in the Japanese Archipelago since the Pleistocene revealed by the complete mitochondrial genome sequences. Scientific reports, Vol.11(1): 12018-12018. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Eiko Endo, Christian Leipe, (in press). The onset, dispersal and crop preferences of early agriculture in the Japanese archipelago as derived from seed impressions in pottery. Quaternary International. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Eiko Endo, (in press). Exploring seed impressions within the fabric of pottery: Using a silicone cast method for reliable identification. In: W. Kirleis, M. Dal Corso, D. Filipovic (eds.). Millet and what else?: The wider context of the adoption of millet cultivation in Europe. Sidestone Press, Leiden. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
Presentation
  • Shinya Shoda, Natsuki Murakami, Akhan Onggaruly, Yana Lukpanova, Emma Usmanova, Elina Ananyevskaya, Helen Talbot, Giedre Motuzaite-Matuzeviciute, Oliver E. Craig. Preliminary results of pottery organic residue analysis of Bronze Age to Early Iron Age, Kazakhstan, Beyond being a pastoralist in Central Asia “Margins or Nodes” concluding online conference, March 26, 2021 (Vilnius University)

2020.4~2021.3

Presentation
  • Shinya Shoda, Natsuki Murakami, Oliver Craig, Joon-ho Son, Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute.　Prehistoric Pottery and Beyond: Biomarker and Isomeric Identification of Crop Consumption Across Eurasia, The Origin of Eurasian Foodways and Cuisines: Environmental challenges and culinary solutions to food globalization in prehistory, November 7, 2020 (Washington University in St. Louis)

C01 Group

2022.4~2023.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Sawada J., Sun G., Huang W., Kubota S., Saeki F., Okazaki K., Yoneda M. and Nakamura S. 2023. Paleopathological characteristics of Neolithic early rice farmers in the lower reaches of the Yangtze river. Frontiers in Earth Science. 11:1225928. LINK
  • Okazaki, K., Yonemoto, S. 2023. Morphological analysis on the human bones unearthed from Avdalai khyasaa site in Zavkhan province, Mongolia. In Excavation at Avdalai Khyasaa site. Miyamoto, K. (ed.), Fukuoka: Kyushu Computer Printing Limited Company, pp. 75-88.
  • Cooke, N.P., Mattiangeli, V., L., Cassidy, L.M., Okazaki, K., Kasai, K., Bradley, D.G., Gakuhari, T., Nakagome, T. 2023. Genomic insights into a tripartite ancestry in the Southern Ryukyu Islands. Evolutionary Human Sciences Vol. 5, 2023, e23
  • Tsutaya T, Doi N, Katagiri C, Sawafuji R, Yoneda M. in press. Human diet of premodern mainland Japan: a meta-analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Anthropological Science. , 132(1), 27–38.　LINK
Presentation
  • Itahashi, Yu, Huang, Li, Yoneda, M. 2023. Feeding Marine Resources to Dogs at Bronze Age Shell-Midden Sites in Southern China by Compound-Specific Nitrogen Isotope Analysis. The 14th International Council of Archaeozoology Conference, Cairns.
  • Yoneda, M. 2023“Millet consumption in the prehistoric period of Japan.”Seminar on “Interdisciplinary methods in archaeology: opportunities and prospects. Margulan Institute of Archaeology.
  • Junmei Sawada, Kazuhiro Uzawa, Takeji Toizumi, Fumiko Saeki, Yuzo Yanagita, Minoru Yoneda. Nondestructive histomorphological species identification of burned bone fragments from the Late Pleistocene using high-resolution X-ray CT at SPring-8 in Japan. ICAZ 2023 (14th International Council for Archaeozoology Conference). 2023年8月7日〜8月12日（Cairns, Queensland, Australia）

2022.4~2023.3

Presentation
  • Junmei Sawada, Kazuhiro Uzawa, Minoru Yoneda, Yu Itahashi, Takashi Gakuhari, Shinji Kubota, Liu Bin, Wang Ningyuan, Chen Minghui, Wang Yonglei, Song Shu, Kenji Okazaki, Hirofumi Takamuku, Hirotaka Tomita, Yasuo Hagihara, Fumiko Saeki, Takashi Nara, Shin’ichi Nakamura. Human bone artifacts crafted in ancient Liangzhu, the earliest state society in East Asia. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022. (Online)

2021.4~2022.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Eda, M., Y. Itahashi, H. Kikuchi, G. Sun, K.-h.n Hsu, T. Gakuhari, M. Yoneda, L.Jiang, G. Yang, S. Nakamura 2022. Multiple lines of evidence for early early stage domestication of geese in a 7,000-year-old rice cultivation village in the lower Yangtze River, China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, Vol. 119 (12): e2117064119. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Iijima, M., Y. Qiao, W. Lin, Y. Peng, M. Yoneda, J. Lin 2022. An intermediate crocodylian linking two extant gharials from the Bronze Age of China and its human-induced extinction. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Vol. 289: 20220085. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Martine Robbeets, Remco Bouckaert, Matthew Conte, Alexander Savelyev, Tao Li, Deog-Im An, Ken-ichi Shinoda, Yinqiu Cui, Takamune Kawashima, Geonyoung Kim, Junzo Uchiyama, Joanna Dolińska, Sofia Oskolskaya, Ken-Yōjiro Yamano, Noriko Seguchi, Hirotaka Tomita, Hiroto Takamiya, Hideaki Kanzawa-Kiriyama, Hiroki Oota, Hajime Ishida, Ryosuke Kimura, Takehiro Sato, Jae-Hyun Kim, Bingcong Deng, Rasmus Bjørn, Seongha Rhee, Kyou-Dong Ahn, Ilya Gruntov, Olga Mazo, John R. Bentley, Ricardo Fernandes, Patrick Roberts, Ilona R. Bausch, Linda Gilaizeau, Minoru Yoneda, Mitsugu Kugai, Raffaela A. Bianco, Fan Zhang, Marie Himmel, Mark J. Hudson & Chao Ning, 2021. Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian languages. Nature (2021). (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Okazaki, K., Takamuku, H., Kawakubo, Y., Hudson, M., Chen, J., 2021. Cranial morphometric analysis of early wet-rice farmers in the Yangtze River Delta of China. Anthropological Science. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Tsutaya T, Yoneda M. 2021. Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopic data of premodern human skeletons from mainland Japan and the Ryukyu islands. Data in Brief, Vol. 38: 107359. (Peer-Reviewed Article)  LINK
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C02 Group

2023.4~2024.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Juhyeon Lee, Takehiro Sato, Atsushi Tajima, Tsend Amgalantugs, Batmunkh Tsogtbaatar, Shigeki Nakagome, Toshihiko Miyak, Noriyuki Shiraishi, Choongwon Jeong, Takashi Gakuhari 2024. Medieval genomes from eastern Mongolia share a stable genetic profile over a millennium, Human Population Genetics and Genomics, 4(1):0004, pp.1-22.　
  • Xiayire Xiaokaiti, Takao Sato, Kenji Kasai, Kenichi Machida, Kyomi Yamazaki, Naomitsu Yamaji, Hiroki Kikuchi, Jun Gojobori, Hitomi Hongo, Yohey Terai, Takashi Gakuhari  2024. The history of ancient Japanese dogs revealed by mitogenomes, Anthropological Science, 132(1), pp. 1-11. 　
  • Niall P. Cooke, Valeria Mattiangeli, Lara M. Cassidy, Kenji Okazaki, Kenji Kasai, Daniel G. Bradley, Takashi Gakuhari, Shigeki Nakagome 2023. Genomic insights into a tripartite ancestry in the Southern Ryukyu Islands, Evolutionary Human Sciences, e23.　
  • Tsutaya, T., Doi, N., Katagiri, C., Sawafuji, R., Yoneda, M. (2024). Human diet of premodern mainland Japan: a meta-analysis of carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios. Anthropological Science, 132(1), 27–38.　LINK
  • Holman, L. E., Wang, Y., Sawafuji, R., Epp, L. S., Bohmann, K., & Pedersen, M. W. (2023). Perspectives and Future Developments Within Sedimentary DNA Research. In E. Capo, C. Barouillet, & J. P. Smol (Eds.), Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Volume 6: Sedimentary DNA (pp. 393–416). Springer International Publishing. 　
  • Uchida-Fukuhara, Y., Shimamura, S., Sawafuji, R., Nishiuchi, T., Yoneda, M., Ishida, H., Matsumura, H., & Tsutaya, T. (2023). Palaeoproteomic investigation of an ancient human skeleton with abnormal deposition of dental calculus. Scientific Reports（accepted）
  • Zampirolo, G., Holman, L. E., Sawafuji, R., Ptáková, M., Kovačiková, L., Šída, P., Pokorný, P., Pedersen, M. W., & Walls, M. (2023). Early Pastoralism in Central European Forests: Insights from Ancient Environmental Genomics. bioRxiv (p. 2023.12.01.569562). 
Presentation
  • Mika UCHIDA, Daisuke WAKU. Leptospirosis of rodents in Miyakojima Island, Japan. 13th European Vertebrate Pest Management Conference. Florence. Aug. 28th to Sep. 1st, 2023
  • Shigeki Nakagome, Tracing genetic origins and legacy of Japanese populations: Insights from ancient genomics in insular East Asia, University College London UGI Seminar, April 26th, 2023. London, UK.
  • Shigeki Nakagome, Genomic insights into human past and health from a study of insular East Asia, Trinity Translational Medicine Institute Annual Conference, April 21st, 2023. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Sawafuji, R, Sawaura, R, Yokoo M, Pedersen, M. 2023. Ancient human DNA from archaeological sediments: insights from sediments surrounding human bones and in settlements. The 10th Meeting of the International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology ISBA10.
  • Sawafuji. R. 2023. Ancient human DNA from archaeological sediments: insights from sediments surrounding human bones and in settlements. SedaDNA Meeting Potsdam: Shedding light on current developments in Paleo Ecological Genomics.

2022.4~2023.3

Presentation
  • Takashi GAKUHARI. Reconstruction of sex-biased migration in the middle Neolithic China using Sr isotope analysis. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022. (Online)

2021.4~2022.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Niall P. Cooke, Valeria Mattiangeli, Lara M. Cassidy, Kenji Okazaki, Caroline A. Stokes, Shin Onbe, Satoshi Hatakeyama, Kenichi Machida, Kenji Kasai, Naoto Tomioka, Akihiko Matsumoto, Masafumi Ito, Yoshitaka Kojima, Daniel G. Bradley, Takashi Gakuhari, Shigeki Nakagome, 2021. Ancient genomics reveals tripartite origins of Japanese populations. Science Advances 7(38): eabh2419. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • Koji Ishiya, Nobutaka Nakashima, 2022. Comparative Genome Analysis Reveals Accumulation of Single-Nucleotide Repeats in Pathogenic Escherichia Lineages. Current Issues in Molecular Biology, Vol. 44(2), pp. 498-504. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Koji Ishiya, Sachiyo Aburatani, 2021. Multivariate statistical monitoring system for microbial population dynamics. Physical biology, Vol. 19(1). (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Marie Saitou, Skyler Resendez, Apoorva J Pradhan, Fuguo Wu, Natasha C Lie, Nancy J Hall, Qihui Zhu, Laura Reinholdt, Yoko Satta, Leo Speidel, Shigeki Nakagome, Neil A Hanchard, Gary Churchill, Charles Lee, G Ekin Atilla-Gokcumen, Xiuqian Mu, Omer Gokcumen, 2021. Sex-specific phenotypic effects and evolutionary history of an ancient polymorphic deletion of the human growth hormone receptor. Science Advances, Vol. 7(39): eabi4476. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Alpaslan-Roodenberg S, Anthony D, Babiker H, Bánffy E, Booth T, Capone P, Deshpande-Mukherjee A, Eisenmann S, Fehren-Schmitz L, Frachetti M, Fujita R, Frieman CJ, Fu Q, Gibbon V, Haak W, Hajdinjak M, Hofmann KP, Holguin B, Inomata T, Kanzawa-Kiriyama H, Keegan W, Kelso J, Krause J, Kumaresan G, Kusimba C, Kusimba S, Lalueza-Fox C, Llamas B, MacEachern S, Mallick S, Matsumura H, Morales-Arce AY, Matuzeviciute GM, Mushrif-Tripathy V, Nakatsuka N, Nores R, Ogola C, Okumura M, Patterson N, Pinhasi R, Prasad SPR, Prendergast ME, Punzo JL, Reich D, Sawafuji R, Sawchuk E, Schiffels S, Sedig J, Shnaider S, Sirak K, Skoglund P, Slon V, Snow M, Soressi M, Spriggs M, Stockhammer PW, Szécsényi-Nagy A, Thangaraj K, Tiesler V, Tobler R, Wang C-C, Warinner C, Yasawardene S, Zahir M. 2021. Ethics of DNA Research on Human Remains: Five Globally Applicable Guidelines. Nature, Vol. 599: 41–46. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Shiba, T., Komatsu, K., Sudo, T., Sawafuji, R., Saso, A., Ueda, S., Watanabe, T., Nemoto, T., Kano, C., Nagai, T., Ohsugi, Y., Katagiri, S., Takeuchi, Y., Kobayashi, H., Iwata, T. 2021. Comparison of Periodontal Bacteria of Edo and Modern Periods Using Novel Diagnostic Approach for Periodontitis with Micro-CT. Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, Vol. 11: 723821.  (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Tsutaya, T., Mackie, M., Sawafuji, R., Miyabe-Nishiwaki, T., Olsen, J. V., Cappellini, E. 2021. Faecal proteomics as a novel method to study mammalian behaviour and physiology. Molecular Ecology Resources, Vol. 21(6): 1808–1819. (Peer-Reviewed Article)

Invited Research

2023.4~2024.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Masaru Miyagi, Evan Kiesel, Kelao Neumbo, Takashi Nakazawa. 2024, Deuterium labeling of isoaspartic and isoglutamic acids for mass spectrometry analysis. Analytical Chemistry 96 (7), 3077–3086.  LINK　
  • Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan, Tsagaan Turbat, Chinbold Bayandelger, Tumurbaatar Tuvshinjargal, Juan Wang, Igor Chechushkov, Manabu Uetsuki, Naoto Isahaya, Mark Hudson, Noriyuki Shiraishi, Yue Li, Chengrui Zhang, Gelegdorj Eregzen, Gino Caspari, Paula López-Calle, Joshua L. Conver, Gaëtan Tressières, Lorelei Chauvey, Julie Birgel, Nasan-Ochir Erdene-Ochir, Jan Bemmann, Gregory Hodgins, Kristine K. Richter, Ludovic Orlando, Christina Warinner and William Timothy Treal Taylor 2023 The origins of saddles and riding technology in East Asia: discoveries from the Mongolian Altai. Antiquity, Published online 2023:1-17.  LINK 
Presentation
  • LYU Meng “Study on tile ends with lotus patterns unearthed from the Mengzhuang Kiln in Yecheng, focusing on the tile-end production techniques with wooden molds”, 8th Symposium on Archaeomaterial Studies, Archaeomaterial Studies in East Aisa. 2023年8月13日（中国北京，北京科技大学）
  • Manabu Uetsuki Bridging the Gap: The Zooarchaeology and History of Medieval Japanese Horses. 14th International Council for Archaeozoology Conference. August 11, 2023. (Cairns Convention Centre)
  • Yu Itahashi, Chong Yu, Kejia Huang, Yan Li, Minoru Yoneda “Feeding marine resources to dogs at Bronze age shell-midden sites in Southern China by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis”, 14th International Council for Archaeozoology Conference, 2023年8月10日（Cairns Convention Centre）

2022.4~2023.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Barbieri C, Blasi DE, Arango-Isaza E, Sotiropoulos AG, Hammarström H, Wichmann S, Greenhill SJ, Gray RD, Forkel R, Bickel B, Shimizu KK, 2022. A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 119: e2122084119, 2022. LINK 査読有 
  • Alexandros G. Sotiropoulos, Epifanía Arango-Isaza, Tomohiro Ban, Chiara Barbieri, Salim Bourras, Christina Cowger, Paweł C. Czembor, Roi Ben David, Amos Dinoor, Simon R. Ellwood, Johannes Graf, Koichi Hatta, Marcelo Helguera, Javier Sánchez-Martín, Bruce A. McDonald, Alexey I. Morgounov, Marion C. Müller, Vladimir Shamanin, Kentaro K. Shimizu, Taiki Yoshihira, Helen Zbinden, Beat Keller, Thomas Wicker, 2022. Global genomic analyses of wheat powdery mildew reveal historical co-migration with humans. Nature Communications 13: 4315. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31975-0, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-31975-0. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
Presentation
  • Meng LYU, Mingzhi MA. Beginnings of roof tile production in Neolithic North China focusing on identification of prehistoric roof tiles. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022. (Online)
  • Yu ITAHASHI. Elucidation of pig utilizations in Neolithic Southern China by compound specific isotope analysis. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. July 3, 2022. (Online)

2021.4~2022.3

Papers and Research Notes
  • Nakamura D., Tamura T., Eregzen G., Lochin Ishitseren & Odbaatar T. 2022. Scientific and archaeological approach for the Glass beads trade of Xiongnu and Xianbei. Studia Archaeologica, Tomus XL, Fasciculus 6, pp. 50-59. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Tamura T., Nakamura D., Bayarsaikhan J., Houle J. & Tuvshinjargal T. 2021. Scientific analysis on the glass beads from the xiongnu burial of Zamiin Utug. Nomadic heritage studies. Tomus XXII-II, Fasciculus 1- 22, pp. 89-102. (Peer-Reviewed Article)
  • Eda, M., Itahashi, Y., Kikuchi, H., Sun, G., Hsu, K.-h., Gakuhari, T., Yoneda, M., Jiang, L., Yang, G., Nakamura, S., 2022. Multiple lines of evidence of early goose domestication in a 7,000-y-old rice cultivation village in the lower Yangtze River, China. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Vol. 119 (12): e2117064119. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
  • M. Robbeets, R. Bouckaert, M. Conte, A. Savelyev, T. Li, D. An, K. Shinoda, Y. Cui, T. Kawashima, G. Kim, J. Uchiyama, j. Dolinska, S. Oskolskaya, K. Y. Yamano, N. Seguchi, H. Tomita, H. Takamiya, H. Kanzawa- Kiriyama, H. Oota, H. Ishida, R. Kimura, T. Sato, J. H. Kim, B. Deng, R. Bj, S. Rhee, K. D. Ahn, I. Gruntov, O. Mazo, J. R. Bentley, R. Fernandes, P. Roberts, I. R. Bausch, L. Gilaizeau, M. Yoneda, M. Kugai, R. A. Bianco, F. Zhang, M. Himmel, M. J. Hudson and N. Chao, 2021. Triangulation supports agricultural spread of the Transeurasian Languages. Nature, Vol. 599: 616-621. (Peer-Reviewed Article) LINK
Presentation
  • L. Nishimura, A. Tanino, A. Ajimoto, K. Inada, T. Katsumura, M. Ogawa, K. Koganebuchi, D. Waku, R. Sugimoto, M. Kumagai, H. Oota, I. Inoue. Gut microbiome analyses of ancient individuals, so called “Jomon”, lived in Japanese archipelago. ASHG virtual meeting 2021, Oct.18-22, 2021(Online)
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