Report
2022
◆The 23th seminar was held on February 21, 2023 (Tue.)
◆The 5th general meeting of FPCC was held on February 18-19, 2023 (Sat., Sun.)
Date:February 18-19, 2023 (Sat., Sun.)
Location: Komazawa University
◆The 22th seminar was held on January 10, 2023 (Tue.)
Date: January 10, 2023 (Tue.)
Time: 10：30～12：30
Location: Zoom
◆The 21th seminar was held on January 8, 2023 (Sun.)
Date: January 8, 2023 (Sun.)
Time: 10:00〜11:30
Location: Kanazawa University & Zoom
◆The 20th seminar was held on December 20, 2022 (Tue.)
Date: December 20, 2022 (Tue.)
Time: 17：00～18：30（JST）
Lecturer: Xiujia Huan（郇秀佳）・Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院地質与地球物理研究所）
Topic: Phytolith and Rice ーNew progress on Rice Phytolith and Neolithic Rice Agriculture Study in China
Location: Zoom meeting
◆The 19th seminar was held on December 12, 2022 (Mon.)
Date: December 12, 2022 (Mon.)
Time: 17：00～18：00（JST）
Lecturer: Takumi Tsutaya, Ph.D.（Assistant Professor at Research Center for Integrative Evolutionary Science, the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan）
Title: “Recent advances in proteomics in bioarchaeology and human evolution studies”
Location: Zoom
◆The 18th seminar was held on November 18, 2022 (Fri.)
Date: November 18, 2022 (Fri.)
Time: 14:00~15:00
Lecturer: Dmitriy Voyakin (Director at International Institute for Central Asian Studies)
Title: “Ai kurgan” -an “exceptional” cave crypt sealed 2500 years ago
Location: Zoom
◆The 4th general meeting of FPCC was held on October 23, 2022 (Sun.)
Date: October 23, 2022 (Sun.)
Time: 9:30~14:30
Location: Kanazawa Bunka Hall ( Large Meeting Room) & Zoom
◆Formation Process of Chinese Civilization/ The Essence of Urban Civilization Joint Symposium was held on October 22, 2022 (Sat.)
Date: October 22, 2022 (Sat.)
Time: 14:00~18:00
Location: Kanazawa Bunka Hall ( Large Meeting Room) & Zoom
◆The 17th seminar was held on October 5, 2022 (Wed.)
Date:October 5, 2022 (Wed.)
Time: 17:00~19:00
Location: Zoom
◆The 16th seminar was held on August 22, 2022 (Mon.)
Date:August 22, 2022 (Mon.)
Time: 16:00~17:00
Location: Zoom
◆The 15th seminar was held on August 1, 2022 (Mon.)
Date:August 1, 2022 (Mon.)
Time: 13:00~16:00
Location: Kanazawa University & Zoom
◆The 14th seminar was held on June 8, 2022 (Wed.)
Date: June 8, 2022 (Wed.)
Time: 11:00~12:00
Location: Kanazawa University & Zoom
2021
◆The 3rd general meeting of FPCC was held on March 12, 2022 (Sat.)
Date: March 12, 2022 (Sat.)
Time: 13:00~17:00
Location: Sophia University & Zoom
◆Formation Process of Chinese Civilization/ Excavating Earthenware Joint Symposium (Grant-in-Aid for Transformative Research Areas (A)) was held online on March 6, 2022 (Sun.)
Date: March 6, 2022 (Sun.)
Time: 13:30~17:10
Location: Zoom
◆The 13th seminar, named “A Look into the Past: The multidisciplinary analysis of paleofeces provide important insights into our dietary history and the evolution of our gut microbiome”, was held online on November 24, 2021 (Wed.)
Frank Maixner “A Look into the Past: The multidisciplinary analysis of paleofeces provide important insights into our dietary history and the evolution of our gut microbiome”
The application of metagenomic analysis on gut microbiomes from the Neolithic to modern specimen brought scientists to address unique evolutionary research questions on human dietary history. Dr. Frank Maixner introduced his recent projects that demonstrate some gut microbiome structures correlate to a relatively recent shift of modern westernized dietary lifestyle, analyzing paleofeces and ancient human mummies across the world. Subjecting from the Iceman in the early agricultural period and the Hallstatt community between the Bronze to Iron age in the Northern Alpine, Egypt, the Andes, China, his research highlights how microbiome genome analysis contributes to the search of human past.
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◆The 12th seminar, named “Development of an ultra-trace sulphur isotope analysis system for estimating the original mine of vermilion excavated from archaeological sites”, was held online on November 20, 2021 (Sat.)
Takeshi Minami “Development of an ultra-trace sulphur isotope analysis system for estimating the original mine of vermilion excavated from archaeological sites”
Vermilion was used in many tombs during the Yayoi and Kofun periods. Vermilion is obtained by collecting the red parts after finely crushing ores from the cinnabar mine, and further grinding them into fine powder. We found that vermilion in tombs could be estimated the place of original cinnabar mine using sulfur isotope ratio. However, since there was a possibility of damaging cultural properties when sampling vermilion, we developed an ultra-trace sulfur isotope analysis system. Using this system, vermilion on the target surface can collect simply by pressing the adhesive tape without the damage of cultural properties, and a single grain of vermilion can analyze the sulfur isotope ratio.
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◆The 11th seminar, named “Current and future perspective on paleogenomics in East Asia”, was held online on October 12, 2021 (Tue.)
Shigeki Nakagome “Current and future perspective on paleogenomics in East Asia”
Recent advances in genome sequence technologies have made it possible to obtain genomic data in systematic ways not only from present-day populations but also from those who died several thousand years ago. This research, paleogenomics, has been uncovering new information about human prehistory that could not been seen otherwise. With a specific focus on East Asia, this seminar covered a variety of topics including population migration and admixture in the continent, as well as the formation of modern populations in the Japanese archipelago.
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◆The 9th seminar, named “The latest studies on ceramic raw materials”, was held online on July 22, 2021 (Thu.)
Ishida Tomoko “An Introduction to Method and Development of the High-precision Pottery Analysis”
Ishimaru Eriko “Sr-Nd isotope analysis of prehistoric pottery texture－Focusing on origin of Ikoma Seiroku type pottery”
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