Archeology article list

Kansai University / Masahiro Hori Laboratory Expands Search App for Excavated Items from "Hyakkatori / Furuichi Kofungun" and Produces Video Content

 Kansai University Faculty of Informatics, Masahiro Hori Laboratory has expanded the search app for excavated items from the world cultural heritage "Hyakkatori / Furuichi Kofungun" released in March 2021 […]

Discovered a unique group of Jomon people who ate millet porridge, the University of Tokyo measured radiocarbon

 A research team led by Professor Minoru Yoneda of the University of Tokyo found that multiple human bones excavated from the XNUMX Kake site in Komoro City, Nagano Prefecture, were recorded by radiocarbon dating […].

Kanazawa University, which has three ancestors, analyzes the genome of ancient human bones

 International collaborative research groups such as Kanazawa University have analyzed the "paleogenomics" of Jomon people, Yayoi people, and Kofun period people excavated from the ruins of the Japanese archipelago […]

Elucidation of the genetic relationship of Japanese people since the Paleolithic era, Toho University and others analyze Minatogawa human bones

 The research groups of Toho University, Graduate University for Advanced Studies, etc. are the ancient human bones and Japanese archipelago groups excavated from the ruins of the Old Stone Age, Jomon Period, and Yayoi Period […]

Named "Yamatosaurus Izanagii", a fossil dinosaur from Awaji Island, confirmed by Hokkaido University as a new species

 In 2004, a research group led by Professor Yoshitsugu Kobayashi of the Hokkaido University Museum was in the last Cretaceous period of Sumoto City in the southern part of Awaji Island, Hyogo Prefecture (about 7,200 […]].

The truth of technological innovation called small stone tools-modern human beings who brought out the usefulness of tools and expanded their living areas

 Around 5 to 4 years ago, when the Neanderthals and other archaic humans were extinct, but only modern humans survived, the number of small stone tools increased in various places. […]

Negative of the Paleolithic Okinawa migration drift theory, such as the National Science Museum

 The National Museum of Nature and Science, the University of Tokyo, and the Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University find it difficult to move from Taiwan and the Philippines to the Ryukyu Islands due to the Kuroshio tide. […]

Nakaoyama Tumulus in Asuka Village, Nara, elaborate processing inside the stone mallet

 The Archaeological Laboratory of the Faculty of Letters, Kansai University and the Board of Education of Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture conducted an archaeological survey at the Nakaoyama Tumulus in Hirata, Nara Prefecture, and accurately grasped the size of the tumulus […].

A large amount of maize weevil mixed in Jomon pottery, Kumamoto University discovered for the first time in Kyushu

 Professor Hiroki Obata of the Kumamoto University International Center for Humanities and Social Sciences is a deep pot-shaped pottery from the late Jomon period excavated from the Yakushoda site in Ebino City, Miyazaki Prefecture.

Handing down skills is not limited to imitation, but discovers individuality in unknown craftsmen who make traditional pottery

 A team of researchers from Kobe University, University College London, Deakin University, etc. have produced even standard traditional pottery. […]