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

Achievements

The names of project members are underlined.

A01 Group

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 MurakamiMasashi Kobayashi. The ethnoarchaeological research on tops. The Ninth Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology. Jul.3,2022 (Online)
  • Shinji KUBOTAMasashi 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 KUBOTAMasashi 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

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
  • 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 KOBAYASHIShinji 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

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 EDAYu ITAHASHIHiroki KIKUCHI, Guoping SUN, Kai-hsuan HSU, Takashi GAKUHARIMinoru 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

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

Presentation
  • Junmei Sawada, Kazuhiro Uzawa, Minoru YonedaYu ItahashiTakashi GakuhariShinji 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. ItahashiH. Kikuchi, G. Sun, K.-h.n Hsu, T. GakuhariM. 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 TYoneda 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

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 GakuhariShigeki 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

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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