2017 - 2022 Establishing East Asian standards in lithic use-wear analysis and application to cultural evolutionary theory
2013 - 2017 Establishing global standards of lithic use-wear identification and cross cultural functional morphology
2009 - 2011 The material in the Paleolithic age kept in Tohoku University is researched in an Asian region.
2005 - 2006 Development and region of settlement on from Jomon to Yayoi period in Tohoku region
2003 - 2006 A cultural comparative study on the function of the Late Palaeolithic artifacts, from a perspective of 'the organization of technology'
2000 - 2003 Research of chronology and regional differences in Early-Middle Paleolithic in Japan
1998 - 2000 In Search of Pleistocene Human Fossils in Kitakami Mountain Areas, Iwate Prefecture
1997 - 1999 RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL EXCHANGES IN NORTHERN ASIA THROUGH HISTORICAL MATERIALS PRESERVED IN OUU (NORTHEAST OF JAPAN)
1996 - 1998 A Study of the Jomon period settlement in Eastern Japan
1996 - 1997 北土山地に旧石器時代人類化石を探る・・・アバクチ、風穴洞窟の発掘
1995 - 1997 A comparative study on settlement patterns and site structure in the Later Upper Palaeolithic Age.
1993 - 1995 A study on the Formation Process of the Yayoi Culture in Eastern Japan
1992 - 1992 実験使用痕分析法による東北日本細石刃文化期石器群の機能研究
1982 - 1982 旧石器時代遺跡における石器集中地点の形成過程についての実験考古学的研究
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Papers (69):
Yoshitaka Kanomata, Yosuke Aoki, Shigeki Sasaki, Ryosuke Kumagai, Kaoru Akoshima, Andrey V. Tabarev. Obsidian Transportation Across the Tsugaru Strait in the Context of the Late Pleistocene. Quantifying Stone Age Mobility. 2022. 69-94
Academic Exchange in the Field of Archaeology
(International Symposium of the 15th Anniversary of the Academic Exchange Program between Tohoku University and Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences 2007)
1980 - 1993 University of New Mexico Graduate School of Anthropology
1978 - 1980 Tohoku University Graduate School, Division of Letters
Professional career (2):
Ph. D. in Anthropology (University of New Mexico)
Master of Arts (Tohoku University)
Work history (6):
2021/04 - 現在 Tohoku History Museum Director
2021/04 - 現在 Tohoku University Professor emeritus
1998/04 - 2021/03 Tohoku University, Professor
1993/02 - 1998/03 Tohoku University, Associate Professor
1990/12 - 1993/01 Tohoku University, Lecturer
1981/05 - 1985/07 Tohoku University, Research Associate
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Committee career (4):
2018/07 - 2020/07 Japanese Palaeolithic Research Association President
2015/10 - 2017/10 Tohoku Historical Society President
1998/05 - 2004/05 宮城県考古学会 総務代表幹事
1991/10 - 1999/10 Tohoku Historical Society Board member
Association Membership(s) (5):
Society for American Archaeology
, 日本文化人類学会
, The Archaeological Society of Miyagi Prefecture
, Japanese Palaeolithic Research Association
, Tohoku Historical Society