Cultural History of PaleoAsia

Scientific Research on Innovative Areas,
a MEXT Grant-in-Aid Project
FY2016-2020

Archive

B02: Mini-workshop: Mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of cultural datasets (Jan. 8-9, 2020)

Schedule:Jan. 8-9th, 2020
Venue: Room: 603 (6th floor), Nakano Campus, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan

Supported by: PaleoAsia project B02 (mathematical modelling) group
Organizer: Joe Yuichiro Wakano (Meiji Univ., Integrated Mathematical Sciences)

Invited speakers:
Luke Premo (Washington State Univ., Anthropology)
Enrico Crema (Univ. of Cambridge, Archaeology)

OBJECTIVE
Mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of empirical datasets are receiving more and more attention in related fields. Such theoretical studies shall provide generalized understanding of cultural origin and its diversity in Asia during Paleolithic, which is also the goal of the PaleoAsia project. Participants as well as speakers are expected to communicate with each other in a mini-workshop style through active discussion.

PROGRAM
8th January (Wed)
13:00 Opening

13:10 Plenary talk 1
Enrico Crema (Univ. of Cambridge, Archaeology)
“Confessions of an Archaeologist:
Inferential Challenges in Reconstructing Transmission Processes from Object”
60min.

14:10
Kohei Tamura (Tohoku Univ)
“A Quantitative Analysis of PaleoAsiaDB”
40min.

14:50 – 15:20 break

15:20 General discussion 1
How we deal with noisy dataset (e.g., coding error, missing data)?
How we deal with data not at equilibrium?

around 5:30pm, workshop dinner

9th January (Thu)
10:00 Plenary talk 2
Luke Premo (Washington State Univ., Anthropology)
“Investigating how time-averaging affects assemblage-level variation in
continuous and discrete cultural traits”
90min.

12:00
Mitsuhiro Nakamura (Meiji Univ)
“An information-theoretic approach to cultural variation”
40min.

12:40 – 14:20 lunch break

14:20
Joe Yuichiro Wakano (Meiji Univ., Integrated Mathematical Sciences)
“Diffusion approximation of cultural popularity spectrum”
40 min.

15:00
Kenichi Aoki (Meiji Univ)
“A three-population wave-of-advance model for the European early Neolithic:
revising the Aoki et al. (1996) model to be qualitatively consistent with the ancient DNA data”
40min.

15:40 – 16:00 break

16:00 General discussion 2
Difference between snapshot data and time-averaged data
How we detect/deal with correlated cultural elements?

17:00 Closing