Technological and Behavioral Organization during Late Upper Paleolithic and Incipient-Initial Jomon Transitions in Southern Kyushu

• Project/Area Number: 17K03213
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: Iizuka Fumie 東京都立大学, 人文科学研究科, 客員研究員 (80744664)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 出穂 雅実 東京都立大学, 人文科学研究科, 准教授 (20552061)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,730,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥630,000)
• Keywords: 考古学 / 旧石器から縄文移行期 / 南九州 / 土器分析 / 石器分析 / 計量考古学 / 古環境分析 / 景観分析 / 論文執筆 / 国際誌特集号編集 / 国際学会発表 / 補足テータ収集 / 比較データ収集 / 旧石器から縄文時代移行期 / 黒曜石原材料採集と化学分析 / 土器薄片分析 / 旧石器～縄文移行期

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Changes that occurred during the late Pleistocene to Holocene transitions are often called the Neolithization processes. Because of the large variability in these transitions, in-depth investigations of regional cases are now required. In this project, we focus on the Upper Paleolithic to Incipient and Initial Jomon transitions of southern Kyushu, Japan, thoroughly investigating the correspondence between technological and paleoenvironmental changes. The results suggest that sea level changes correspond with the adoption of pottery at the onset of the Incipient Jomon and change to the Initial Jomon. The transition to the Initial Jomon is also associated with climate change. A regional population increase and technological changes during the Initial Jomon may correspond with climatic warming and vegetational change. During the Incipient Jomon, ceramic technological variability between Tanegashima and Kyushu proper is observed. In a future project, we will investigate the reasons.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

新石器化のプロセスの研究事例として、南九州において、後期旧石器から縄文時代草創期・早期への変化の理由を土器・石器技術の製作過程の再構築および古環境・景観の変化との比較から探ること。

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Arizona/University of California/California State University(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] Transbaikal State University(ロシア連邦)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Missouri(米国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] University of Missouri Research Reactor/Central Washington University/University of California, Davis(米国)
• [Journal Article] 縄文時代草創期の土器製作技術と変異性に関する基礎的研究（4）―鹿児島県西之表市（種子島北半）鬼ヶ野遺跡，二本松遺跡，および奥ノ仁田遺跡の事例― (2021)
  • Author(s): 飯塚文枝・パメラ・バンディバー・森先一貴・出穂雅実・沖田純一郎・マーク・アルデンダーファー
  • Journal Title: 鹿児島考古 Volume: 50 Pages: 241-254
  • NAID: 40022629246
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Problems Associated with the Age Determination of the Oldest Pottery Yielding Cultural Layers at the Studenoe 1 Site, Transbaikal (Southern Siberia) (2021)
  • Author(s): Izuho, M., F. Iizuka, I. Buvit, M. V. Konstantinov
  • Journal Title: Quaternary International Volume: 0 Pages: 1-17
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2021.02.002
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] 氷期に遡る最初のアメリカ人の出現とその拡散」『メソアメリカ文明ゼミナール (2021)
  • Author(s): 出穂雅実
  • Journal Title: メソアメリカ文明ゼミナール, 伊藤伸幸・嘉幡茂・村上達也編 Volume: 0 Pages: 3-32
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Of the sea and volcano: A petrographic provenance investigation of locally produced and imported ware of Pre-Younger Dryas Tanegashima Island, Japan (2020)
  • Author(s): Iizuka, F., M. Izuho, K. Wada, H. Barnard, P. Vandiver, K. Morisaki, C. Wendt, M. Aldenderfer
  • Journal Title: Quaternary International Volume: 0 Pages: 1-24
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.009
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] U-Pb Dating of Zircon: A Sourcing Method for Pottery from the La Morena Archaeological Site, NW Colombia (2020)
  • Author(s): Weber, M., Valencia, V., Caballero, J., Villada, B., Cardona, A., & Iizuka, F.
  • Journal Title: Archaeometry Volume: 62(3) Issue: 3 Pages: 439-468
  • DOI: 10.1111/arcm.12532
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] A Circum-Pacific Perspective on the Origin of Stemmed Points in North America (2020)
  • Author(s): Pratt, J., Goebel, T., Graf, K., Izuho, M.
  • Journal Title: PaleoAmerica Volume: 6(1) Pages: 64-101
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Recent Progress of the Paleolithic Research in Asia: Cultural diversities and Paleoenvironmental changes (2020)
  • Author(s): Masami Izuho, Kazuki Morisaki, Hiroyuki Sato
  • Journal Title: Quaternary International Volume: 0 Pages: 0-0
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2020.01.010
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] 第一節 遠軽町タチカルシュナイ遺跡M-I地点の地形と層序 (2020)
  • Author(s): 出穂雅実、石丸聡、夏木大吾
  • Journal Title: 東京大学常呂実習施設研究報告第16集 Volume: 16 Pages: 95-103
• [Journal Article] 第三節 北海道紋別郡遠軽町タチカルシュナイ遺跡M-I地点の黒曜石遺物の蛍光X線分析 (2020)
  • Author(s): 出穂雅実、ジェフリーR.ファーガソン、夏木大吾
  • Journal Title: 東京大学常呂実習施設研究報告第16集 Volume: 16 Pages: 115-129
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Late Upper Paleolithic occupation at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho, USA, ~16,000 years ago (2019)
  • Author(s): Loren G. Davis, David B. Madsen, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Thomas Higham, David A. Sisson, Sarah M. Skinner, Daniel Stueber, Alexander J. Nyers, Amanda Keen-Zebert, Christina Neudorf, Melissa Cheyney, Masami Izuho, Fumie Iizuka, Samuel R. Burns, Clinton W. Epps, Samuel C. Willis and Ian Buvit
  • Journal Title: Science Volume: 365 Issue: 6456 Pages: 891-897
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.aax9830
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Geochronology and the Late Pleistocene Origins of Pottery: A Special Case from Southern Japan (2019)
  • Author(s): Iizuka, F.
  • Journal Title: Backdirt: Annual Review of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA Volume: N/A Pages: 46-53
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] 縄文時代草創期に位置づけられる土器技術と変異性の基礎的研究（３）：鹿児島県南さつま市金峰町中尾遺跡および日置市東市来町向栫城跡の事例 (2019)
  • Author(s): 飯塚文枝、出穂雅実、パメラ・バンディバー、マーク・アルデンダーファー
  • Journal Title: 研究紀要・年報 縄文の森から Volume: 11 Pages: 33-52
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Role of minimum analytical nodules in obsidian hydration measurement: Insight from Kyu-Shirataki 3 in Hokkaido, Japan (2019)
  • Author(s): Yuichi Nakazawa, Kyohei Sano, Yasuo Naoe, Naofumi Sakamoto, Masami Izuho, Hidehiko Nomura
  • Journal Title: International Association for Obsidian Studies Bulletin Volume: N/A Pages: 8-15
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] A Circum-Pacific Perspective on the Origin of Stemmed Points in North America (2019)
  • Author(s): Jordan Pratt, Ted Goebel, Kelly Graf and Masami Izuho
  • Journal Title: PaleoAmerica Volume: N/A Issue: 1 Pages: 64-108
  • DOI: 10.1080/20555563.2019.1695500
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] 縄文時代草創期に位置づけられる土器技術と変異性の基礎的研究(３)：鹿児島県南さつま市金峰町中尾遺跡および東市来町向栫城跡の事例 (2019)
  • Author(s): 飯塚文枝、出穂雅実、パメラ・バンディバー、マーク・アルデンダーファー
  • Journal Title: 研究紀要・年報 縄文の森から Volume: 11
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] The Timing and Behavioral Context of the Late Pleistocene Adoption of Ceramics in Greater East and Northeast Asia and the First People (Without Pottery) in the Americas. (2018)
  • Author(s): Iizuka, F.
  • Journal Title: PaleoAmerica Volume: 4(4) Issue: 4 Pages: 267-324
  • DOI: 10.1080/20555563.2018.1563406
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Techniques and Formal Variability of Pottery from Five Neolithic Sites in Eastern Steppe and the Gobi Desert, Mongolia (2018)
  • Author(s): Iizuka, F., Izuho, M., Gunchinsuren, B., Tsogotbaatar, B., & Odsuren, D.
  • Journal Title: Studia Archaeologica Instituti Historiae Et Archaeologici Academiae Scientiarum Mongolici Volume: XXXVII Pages: 5-16
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] 縄文時代草創期の土器製作技術と変異性に関する基礎的研究(2)：鹿児島県姶良市建昌城跡遺跡および鹿児島市掃除山遺跡の事例 (2018)
  • Author(s): 飯塚文枝、出穂雅実、パメラ・バンディバー、深野信之、長野陽介、マーク・アルデンダーファー
  • Journal Title: 鹿児島考古 Volume: 48 Pages: 61-80
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] 美幌町豊岡7遺跡の忍路子型細石刃刃核を伴う石器群の使用痕分析 (2018)
  • Author(s): 岩瀬彬・夏木大吾・出穂雅実
  • Journal Title: 論集忍路子 Volume: V Pages: 35-57
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Early Upper Paleolithic blade technology in the Japanese Archipelago (2018)
  • Author(s): Morisaki, K., K.Sano and M.Izuho
  • Journal Title: Archaeological Research in Asia Volume: 14 Pages: 1-26
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2018.03.001
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] New AMS Dates from the Shukubai-Kaso Site (Loc. Sankakuyama), Hokkaido (Japan): Refining the Chronology of Small Flake-Based Assemblages During the Early Upper Paleolithic in the Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kurile Peninsula (2018)
  • Author(s): Izuho, M., D.Kunikita, Y.Nakazawa, N.Oda, K.Hiromatsu and O.Takahashi
  • Journal Title: PaleoAmerica Volume: 4 Issue: 2 Pages: 1-17
  • DOI: 10.1080/20555563.2018.1457392
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Tolbaga revisited: Scrutinizing occupation duration and its relationship with the faunal landscape during MIS 3 and MIS 2 (2018)
  • Author(s): Izuho, M., K.Terry, S.Vasil’ev, M.Konstantinov and K.Takahashi
  • Journal Title: Archaeological Research in Asia Volume: N/A Pages: 9-23
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2018.09.003
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Guest Editorial Special Issue: The Initial Upper Paleolithic in Asia: assemblages variability, timing and significance, (2018)
  • Author(s): Izuho, M., N. Zwyns and K. Sano
  • Journal Title: Archaeological Research in Asia Volume: N/A
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] 日本考古学の国際化 (2018)
  • Author(s): 西藤清秀・山本孝文・飯島武次・田畑幸嗣・出穂雅美・臼杵勲・千本真生・佐々木憲一・寺崎秀一郎・岡本克之・溝口孝司
  • Journal Title: 日本考古学 Volume: 47 Pages: 121-134
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Discovery of a Late Pleistocene rhinocerotid fossil from Ondorkhaan, eastern Mongolia (2017)
  • Author(s): 半田直人，出穂雅美，高橋啓一，飯塚文枝，Batmunkh Tsogtbaatar, Byambaa Gunchinsuren, Davaakhuu Odsuren, Lochin Ishtseren
  • Journal Title: The Journal of the Geological Society of Japan Volume: 123 Issue: 12 Pages: V-VI
  • DOI: 10.5575/geosoc.2017.0058
  • NAID: 130006575573
  • ISSN: 0016-7630, 1349-9963
  • Year and Date: 2017-12-15
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Late Upper Paleolithic-Initial Jomon Transitions, Southern Kyushu, Japan: Regional Scale to Macro Processes a Close Look (2017)
  • Author(s): Fumie Iizuka and Masami Izuho
  • Journal Title: Quaternary International Volume: 441 Pages: 102-112
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2016.12.040
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Obsidian sourcing analysis by X-ray fluorescence (XRF) for the Neolithic sites of Slavnaya 4 and 5, Sakhalin Islands (Russia) (2017)
  • Author(s): Izuho Masami、Ferguson Jeffrey R.、Vasilevski Alexander、Grishchenko Vyacheslav、Yamada Satoru、Oda Noriyoshi、Sato Hiroyuki
  • Journal Title: Archaeological Research in Asia Volume: 12 Pages: 54-60
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ara.2017.09.002
  • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
• [Journal Article] Human Adaptive Responses to Environmental Change During the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Japanese Archipelago (2017)
  • Author(s): Morisaki Kazuki、Izuho Masami、Sato Hiroyuki
  • Journal Title: Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change, Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation Volume: 9 Pages: 91-122
  • DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-64407-3_6
  • ISBN: 9783319644059, 9783319644073
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] Geochemical Provenance Analysis of Pre-Younger-Dryas Pottery from Southern Japan Using Neutron Activation (2021)
  • Author(s): Iizuka, F., Izuho, M., & J. Ferguson
  • Organizer: Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting (remote meeting)
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Late Pleistocene Origins of Pottery in East and Northeast Asia: Implications for the Peopling of the Americas (2021)
  • Author(s): Iizuka, F.
  • Organizer: Anthropology & Heritage Studies Seminar Series, University of California, Merced
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Studenoe 1 Site and the Origins of Pottery. (2020)
  • Author(s): Izuho, M., Iizuka, F., & Konstantinov, M.
  • Organizer: Mongolia-Transbaikal Research Meeting
• [Presentation] 北東アジアにおける現生人類拡散プロセスのいくつかの問題：最初のアメリカ人に関する研究の進展から (2020)
  • Author(s): 出穂雅実、門脇誠二、太田博樹
  • Organizer: パレオアジア文化史学」第9回研究大会
• [Presentation] 上部旧石器時代のモンゴルおよびザバイカルにおける環境変化と人類の適応行動：研究の現状と課題 (2020)
  • Author(s): 出穂雅実・長谷川精
  • Organizer: パレオアジア文化史学第10回研究大会
• [Presentation] 立谷川河床（山形県・天童市）に現れた最終氷期最盛期の埋没林 (2020)
  • Author(s): 高原光・百原新・林竜馬・山川千代美・植田弥生・大山幹成・大江新一・大脇航平・出穂雅実・岩瀬彬・江草俊作・平塚幸人・山野井徹
  • Organizer: 日本第四紀学会2020年大会
• [Presentation] Criticism of Fantastic Ideas About the Extraordinary Antiquity of Ceramics in the Transbaikal, Russia (2019)
  • Author(s): M. Konstantinov, M. Izuho, F. Iizuka
  • Organizer: XX International Union for Quaternary Union, INQUA 2019, Congress, Dublin, Ireland
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Of the Sea and Volcano: Provenance Study of teh Pre-Younger Dryas Pottery on Tanegashima Island, Japan (2019)
  • Author(s): F. Iizuka, M. Izuho, K. Wada, H. Barnard, P. Vandiver, K. Morisaki, C. Wendt, M. Aldenderfer
  • Organizer: XX International Union for Quaternary Union, INQUA 2019, Congress, Dublin, Ireland
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] 東アジア・北東アジアの土器の起源：問題点への解決へ向けて (2019)
  • Author(s): Iizuka, F.
  • Organizer: モンゴル・トランスバイカル研究会
• [Presentation] 災害考古学の針路。デンマークで開催されたシンポジウム『大災害の諸相-考古学の視点から』を通して。 (2019)
  • Author(s): 斎野裕彦、 飯塚文枝
  • Organizer: 日本考古学協会85回総会
• [Presentation] Ceramic Variability and Behavioral Context of the Incipient Jomon Sites on Tanegashima Island, Southern Japan (2019)
  • Author(s): F. Iizuka, P Vandiver, K. Morisaki, M. Izuho, J. Okita, M. Aldenderfer
  • Organizer: Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Temporal Changes in Obsidian Procurement Strategy during the Upper Paleolithic on Hokkaido (2019)
  • Author(s): Izuho, Masami (Tokyo Metropolitan University) and Jeffrey R. Ferguson (MURR Archaeometry Laboratory, Research Reactor Cen)
  • Organizer: SAA 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Upper Paleolithic Cultural Landscapes of the Selenge Tributaries, Northern Mongolia (2019)
  • Author(s): Gillam, J. Christopher (Winthrop University) and Masami Izuho (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
  • Organizer: SAA 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque Convention Center, Albuquerque, NM, USA
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 上部旧石器時代のモンゴルおよびザバイカルにおける環境変化と人類の適応行動に関する予察 (2019)
  • Author(s): 出穂雅実、長谷川精
  • Organizer: 「パレオアジア文化史学」第7回研究大会、名古屋大学東山キャンパス
• [Presentation] Paleoenvironmental changes recorded in Orog Lake, southwestern Mongolia during MIS 3 and its relationship with Homo sapiens ’s migration into northern Asia (モンゴル南西部オログ湖堆積物から復元される最終氷期～完新世の古環境 変動とホモ・サピエンス定着との関係性) (2019)
  • Author(s): Hasegawa, H., N. Noma, N. Katsuta, M. Murayama, T. Tamura, M. Izuho, N. Ichinnorov, D. Davaadorj, N. Hasebe, M. Sasaoka, M. Iwai
  • Organizer: JpGU Meeting 2019, Makuhari Messe, Chiba
• [Presentation] Unanswered questions on the Initial Upper Paleolithic and the first modern human dispersal across Eurasia (2019)
  • Author(s): Izuho, M., N. Zwyns, and S. Kuhn (organizers)
  • Organizer: XX International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress, Dublin, Ireland
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Old World Ceramic Origins and Behavioural Contexts from the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene (2019)
  • Author(s): F. Iizuka and K. Terry (organizers)
  • Organizer: XX International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress, Dublin, Ireland
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Chronological sequence of the Initial and Upper Paleolithic in Mongolia and its relationship to ecosystem changes during MIS3 (2019)
  • Author(s): Izuho, M., H. Hasegawa, G. Byambaa, and T. Batmunkh
  • Organizer: XX International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress, Dublin, Ireland
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of southwestern Mongolia since the MIC 3: evidence from Lake sediment record and comparison with archaeological record (2019)
  • Author(s): Hasegawa H., Noma N., Katsuta N., Murayama M., Tamura T., Izuho M., Ichinnorov N., Davaadorj D., Sasaoka M., Hasebe N., Iwai M
  • Organizer: XX International Union for Quaternary Research (INQUA) Congress, Dublin, Ireland
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Differential preservation of burnt bone: Impacts on the visibility of anthropogenic fire in the Upper Paleolithic Taiga Steppe (2019)
  • Author(s): G. Gallo, M. Fyhrie, C. Paine, S. Ushakiv, M. Izuho, B. Gunchinsuren, N. Zwyns, A. Navrotsky
  • Organizer: 9th Annual ESHE (European Society for the study of Human Evolution)Meeting, Palais des Congres
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The open-air site of Tolbor-17 (North Mongolia): lithics, fire and ornaments during the MIS3 (2019)
  • Author(s): Zwyns N., M.Izuho, B. Gunchinsuren, C.H.Paine, S.Rigaud, G.T.Gallo, Y.Nakazawa, F.Akai, T.Ueki, P.Zhang, J.C.Gillam, S.Talamo, B.Tsendendorj, D.Odsuren, G.Angaradulgun, D.Bazargur, T.Libois, J.Galfi
  • Organizer: International Symposium on Paleoanthropology in Commemoration of the 90th Anniversary of the Discovery of the First Skull of Peking Man
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] The site of Tolbor-17: new insight into the Upper Paleolithic of Mongolia (2019)
  • Author(s): Masami Izuho and Nicolas Zwyns
  • Organizer: Arkheologich Damdinsurengiin Tseveendorj
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Refining the chronology of small flake-based assemblages during the Early Upper Paleolithic on Hokkaido (Japan) (2018)
  • Author(s): Izuho, M.
  • Organizer: 9th meeting of the Asian Paleolithic Association, Altai, Russia
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] The Great East Japan Earthquake－2011 and Traces of Past Tsunami Disasters on the Sendai Plain of Japan (2018)
  • Author(s): Saino, H. & Iizuka, F.
  • Organizer: Catastrophes in Context
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] The Timing and Behavioral Context of the Adoption of Ceramics in Greater East and Northeast Asia and the First People Without Pottery in the Americas (2018)
  • Author(s): Iizuka, F.
  • Organizer: The International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Excavation at the Upper Paleolithic Site of Tarvagataiin Am, Khuder Sum, Selenge Aimag (Mongolia): A Preliminary Result (2018)
  • Author(s): Izuho, M., Byambaa, G., Batmunkh, T., Akai, F., Hiromatsu, K., Iizuka, F., Dashzeveg, B., Davaakhuu, O. & Nakazawa, Y.
  • Organizer: The International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] The Incipient Jomon Pottery Technology from Southern Kyushu, Japan: Cases from Nakao and Mukaigakoijo-Ato Sites (2018)
  • Author(s): Iizuka, F., Izuho, M., & Aldenderfer, M
  • Organizer: Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Shedding New Light on Upper Paleolithic Cultural Landscapes of Northern Mongolia (2018)
  • Author(s): J.Christopher Gillam, N.Zwyns, M.Izuho, T. Bolorbat and E.Rybin
  • Organizer: Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Stemmed Points: Are they a circum-pacific phenomenon? (2018)
  • Author(s): Graf, K., T.Goebel and M.Izuho
  • Organizer: The Wilson Workshop, Victoria, Canada
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] A Last Glacial Maximum Paleo-Sakhalin-Hokkaido-Kuril Peninsula Refugium and its Implications for the Peopling of the Americas, (2018)
  • Author(s): Terry, K., I.Buvit, and M.Izuho
  • Organizer: The 18th UISPP world congress, Paris
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Fire on the Steppe: Behavioral Insights from Ephemeral Combustion Features (2018)
  • Author(s): Gallo, G, M.Izuho, G.Byambaa, C.Paine, and N.Zwyns
  • Organizer: The 18th UISPP world congress, Paris
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Preservation conditions of the initial and early Upper Paleolithic sites in northern and eastern Mongolia (2018)
  • Author(s): Izuho, M.
  • Organizer: PaleoAsia 2018 The International Workshop, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Some thoughts on the terminal Pleistocene stone tool cache: A case study from the Tomamu-daichi site, eastern Hokkaido, Japan, (2018)
  • Author(s): Nakazawa, Y., A.Iwase, N.Oda, F.Akai, K.Hiromatsu, M.Izuho and H.Ohtorii
  • Organizer: PaleoAsia 2018 The International Workshop, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Investigating the Advent of Neolithic in the Late Holocene Panama and Late Pleistocene Japan through Lab-Based Material Study on Pottery (2017)
  • Author(s): Fumie Iizuka
  • Organizer: Titan Archaeology Club, Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton
  • Invited
• [Presentation] The Timing of Sedentism and the First Ceramic Production in the Isthmus of Panama. (2017)
  • Author(s): Fumie Iizuka
  • Organizer: Alternatives Models of Cultural Development of Indigenous Coastal Societies in Tropical America. Escuela Superior Politecnica de Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Coccion, Intercambio y Ambiente: Decisiones Tecnicas de los Primeros Alfareros de Panama. (2017)
  • Author(s): Fumie Iizuka
  • Organizer: XI Congreso de la Red Centroamericana de Antropologia, Universidad de Costa Rica, San Jose, Costa Rica.
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Production, Distribution, and Use of the First Pottery from the Tropics of Panama. (2017)
  • Author(s): Fumie Iizuka
  • Organizer: Pizza Talk, Cotsen Institute, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Internal structure and magma ascent process of obsidian lavas in the south of Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia (2017)
  • Author(s): Sato, Eiichi、Sano Kyohei、Izuho Masami
  • Organizer: IAVCEI 2017 Scientific Assembly, Portland State University, Oregon
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 北東アジアのLGM先史狩猟採集民の技術的・行動的研究（1990年代後半～2017年） (2017)
  • Author(s): 出穂雅実
  • Organizer: LGM古植生科研会議、京都府立大学、京都市
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Temporal Changes and Regional Varieties in Obsidian Use during the Upper Paleolithic on Hokkaido (Japan) (2017)
  • Author(s): Izuho Masami、Ferguson Jeffrey R.
  • Organizer: 11th International Symposium on Knappable Materials, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Int'l Joint Research