Research and Projects

Research Topics and Projects

The list links to dedicated pages on this and other sites.

Interests

• Classification and meaning
  • How to utilize the classificatory process and classificatory paradigms to create a meaningful classification of archaeological finds and findings.
• Hayato
  • An ethnic group or tribe at the southern border of the ancient Japanese state.
• Narikawa Pottery
  • A beautiful earthenware from Prehistoric and Ancient South Japan
• The Southern islands and their role in Japan’s encounters with the West
• Data modeling, statistics, and R (github - not yet public…)
  • Developing packages and guidelines.

Projects

• Nakadake Kiln Site Center (Official website)
  • Excavations, prospections, and scientific analyses in Japan’s Southernmost Sue production center.
• Comparative Neutron Activation Analyses of ceramics finds from Kyōto University
  • Chemical composition analysis of locally made/used ceramics by neutron activation analysis to establish a high-resolution approach to the study of history of local economic development.
• The blurry culture
  • Research on the pre- and protohistoric culture between Japan and the Ryūkyū islands.
• Adaptive Filtering(github)
  • Human-in-the-Loop Adaptive Terrain Filtering of 3D Point Clouds for Archaeological Prospection: Open Source Python Library for Adaptive Terrain Filtering of Laser Scanning Data
• The Hirota Site in Tanegashima Island, Japan
  • Research on the movement of people based on biological and technological traits
• Decorated Tombs and their iconography in Japanese prehistory
  • Application of quantitative methods to a Japan wide phenomenon.

This is a preliminary introduction and shall be completed and updated.