Cultural History of PaleoAsia

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

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”