Profiles

Professor KANOMATA Yoshitaka
Affiliations :
- Graduate School Faculty of Arts and Letters
- Division of Department of Japanese Studies
- Japanese History Course
- Department of Archaeology


- Research, History
-
- Courses
- Archaeology (General Lecture); Archaeology (Special Lecture); Archaeology (Advanced Lecture); Archaeology (Introductory Reading); Archaeology (Introductory Field Work); Archaeology (Field Work); Archaeology (Advanced Field Work); Archaeology (Seminar); Archaeology (Advanced Seminar); Museology (Field Work Methodology)
- Personal History
-
Research Associate, Faculty of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University
The Culture Promotion Organization of Fukushima Prefecture (assets)
Institute of Accelerator Analysis Ltd. (stocks)
Apr 2009 Appointed to current position
- Degree
- Ph.D. (Literature)
- Field
-
Prehistoric Archaeology (the research is conducted mainly in Japan, but includes a number of other countries, such as Russia, China, Mongolia, and Ecuador);
Study of Japanese Jomon pottery, and Paleolithic stoneware in general; Chronological and use-wear analysis based on absolute dating techniques
- Research Subject
-
Application of use-wear analysis (traceology) as a research method of prehistoric archaeology;
Establishing the chronology of Palaeolithic sites in Tohoku region;
Comparative cultural analysis of periods of the earliest pottery
- Keywords
- Paleolithic era; Jomon period; use-wear analysis of stoneware; radiocarbon dating
- Affiliation
- Japanese Archaeological Association; Japanese Paleolithic Research Association; Tohoku Historical Society; The Archaeological Society of Miyagi Prefecture
- Database of Researchers Information
- https://www.r-info.tohoku.ac.jp/ja/d201b3a8f74aca5fde555eb10cfee356.html