Cultural History of PaleoAsia

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

Invited Research

2017-2018

Research Team A01:A chrono-spatial framework for the emergence of modern humans and their cultures in Asia

Osamu Kondo
“Late Pleistocene human fossil remains in West Asia”

  • Atsushi Uemine
    “Elucidation of the chronology and human behavioral pattern reflected in quartz artifacts in East Asia”

  • Ryosuke Kimura
    “A feasibility study on genome analysis of ancient humans in the Lake Baikal area”

  • Sadakatsu Kunitake
    「カザフスタンにおける後期旧石器文化形成プロセスの研究」

Research Team A02:Dynamism of human behavior during the dispersal of Homo sapiens into Asia
  • Takashi Nakazawa
    “Protein archaeological study of Paleolithic animal bones”

Research Team A03:Changing climate and resident-environment in the migrations and expansions of Homo sapiens across the continent of Asia
  • Nagayoshi Katsuta
    “A history of environmental changes and their impacts on modern human activity in inland Asia retrieved from high-resolution analyses of lacustrine records”

Research Team B01:Anthropological study on cultural and behavioral change through dispersal and contact of human populations
  • Hitoshi Yamada
    “Constructing dynamic models of human group interactions based on ethnographic data”

Research Team B02:Mathematical modelling and analysis of cultural and behavioral changes through dispersal and settlement of human populations
  • Hiroki Oota
    “A population genetic study of subsistence and cultural/behavioral styles of Hill tribes in Thailand”

2019-2020

Research Team A01:A chrono-spatial framework for the emergence of modern humans and their cultures in Asia
  • Atsushi Uemine
    “Reconsideration of denticulate lithic industries in East Asia around the modern human dispersal event”

  • Sadakatsu Kunitake
    The pursuit of the Initial Upper Paleolithic(IUP)industries in Central Asia

Research Team A02:Dynamism of human behavior during the dispersal of Homo sapiens into Asia
  • Takashi Nakazawa
    “Protein archaeological study of Paleolithic animal bones”

Research Team A03:Changing climate and resident-environment in the migrations and expansions of Homo sapiens across the continent of Asia
  • Nagayoshi Katsuta
    「過去10万年間におけるバイカル集水域の水環境復元と人類史への影響評価」

  • Masako Yamane
    Establishing a protocol of effective radiocarbon dating for old samples of the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition

Research Team B02:Mathematical modelling and analysis of cultural and behavioral changes through dispersal and settlement of human populations
  • Kohei Tamura
    “Visualization of Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Lithic Technologies in PaleoAsiaDB and Inference of Underlying Process of Cultural Diversity in PaleoAsia”

  • Hiroki Oota
    “A genome study of population diversity changes in transition from a hunting-gathering to an agricultural society”