Selected Publications

Authored/Edited volumes

2025

Nishiaki, Y., A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov (2025) Damjili Cave – Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Aliyeva, S. and Y. Nishiaki (2025) Damjili Cave – A Hundred Thousand Years of History, Gazakh, Azerbaijan. Tokyo: The University Museum, The University of Tokyo.
西秋良宏・野林厚志編（2025）『パレオアジア新人文化の形成：考古学・民族学からのアプローチ』新泉社。
野林厚志編（2025）『現代“間食”考：狭間からみる人類の食』平凡社

2024

西秋良宏・三國博子（2024）『東京大学総合研究博物館所蔵　大沼克彦博士による打製石器復元製作コレクション』東京大学総合研究博物館標本資料報告第133号。東京大学総合研究博物館, 東京。

Journal papers

2026

Kadowaki, S., Tsukada, K., Nuramkhaan, M., Kondo, Y., Hirose, M., Suga, E., Murase, S. & Massadeh, S. (2026) Paleolithic exploitation of scarce chert sources in the sandstone canyons of the Hisma Basin, southern Jordan. Landscape Ecology 41: 26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-025-02285-9
Wakano, J.Y., Ohtsuki, H., Kobayashi, Y., Baake, E. (2026) Evolving genealogies in cultural evolution, the descendant process, and the number of cultural traits. Theoretical Population Biology 168:1-18. DOI 10.1016/j.tpb.2025.12.003

2025

Noshita, K., Nakagawa, T., Kaneda, A., Tamura, K., & Nakao, H. (2025) The cultural transmission of Ongagawa style pottery in the prehistoric Japan: quantitative analysis on three-dimensional data of archaeological pottery in the early Yayoi period. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 22(223): 20240889. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0889
Yin, J., Massadeh, S. & Kadowaki, S. (2025) Impact Fractures and Adhesive Remains on Early and Middle Epipaleolithic Microliths from Tor Hamar, Southern Jordan. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 8: 19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-025-00219-0

2024

Anthony, E., Syvitski, J., Zăinescu, F., Nicholls, R.J., Cohen, K.M., Marriner, N., Saito, Y., Day, J., Minderhoud, P.S.J., Amorosi, A., Chen, Z., Morhange, C., Tamura, T., Vespremeanu-Stroe, A., Besset, M., Sabatier, F., Kaniewski, D., Maselli, V. (2024) Delta sustainability from the Holocene to the Anthropocene and envisioning the future. Nature Sustainability 7, 1235-1246.
Casanova, E., T. Miki, Y. Miyata and Y. Nishiaki (2024) Unravelling the function of funerary pottery vessels in Iron Age in the Dailaman Province (Iran) through typology, petrography and organic residue analyses. PLoS ONE 19(9): e0306647. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306647
Darabi, H., T. Richter, A. Sołtysiak, A. Arranz-Otaegui, Y. Nishiaki and H. Davoudi (2024) Revisiting the Neolithic site of Ali Kosh, Southwestern Iran. Journal of Field Archaeology 49(7): 527-546.
Kadowaki, S., J.Y. Wakano, T. Tamura, A. Watanabe, M. Hirose, E. Suga, K. Tsukada, O. Tarawneh and S. Massadeh (2024) Delayed increase in stone tool cutting-edge productivity at the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in southern Jordan. Nature Communications 15: 610. doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44798-y
Kedar, Y., G. Kedar, S. Kadowaki and R. Barkai (2024) Hearth management at a middle Paleolithic rock shelter site: Smoke density analysis at Tor Faraj, Jordan. Journal of Archaeological Science 172: 106107. doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106107
Khanipour, M. and Y. Nishiaki (2024) Dating the beginning of the Pottery Neolithic in South Iran: Radiocarbon dates from Tol-e Sangi, the Fars. Radiorcarbon :1-13.
Nakao, H., Kaneda, A., Tamura, K., Noshita, K., Nakagawa, T. (2024) Macro-Scale Population Patterns in the Kofun Period of the Japanese Archipelago: Quantitative Analysis of a Larger Sample of Three-Dimensional Data from Ancient Human Crania. Humans 4(2): 131-147. https://doi.org/10.3390/humans4020008
Nunn, P.D., Luebbers, R., Hesp, P.A., Murray-Wallace, C.V., Wilson, C., Bourman, R.P., Roberts, A., Moffat, I., da Silva, G.M., Dillenburg, S.R., Tamura, T., Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal Corporation. (2024) Calibrating Holocene human-environment interactions using ancient narratives: The example of Ngurunderi in South Australia. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 20(3): 563–587. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2024.2337096.
Nobayashi, A. (2024) From Good to Eat to Good to Make: Ethnographical Archaeology of Bird Representations in Ancient Japan. In Feathered Entanglements: Human-Bird Relations in the Anthropocene, edited by S. Simon and F. Laugrand, pp. UBC press
Oliver, T.S.N., Short, A.D., Tamura, T. (2024) Millennial and contemporary dynamics of the barrier estuary entrance at Moruya, SE Australia. Coastal Engineering Journal 67(1): 12–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/21664250.2024.2391638
Simms, A.R., Ishiwa, T., Hodgson, D.A., Tamura, T., DeWitt, R. (2024) Late Pleistocene sea-level constraints across Antarctica. Quaternary Science Reviews 341, 108879.
Wakano J.Y., Aoki, K. (2024) Forward and backward modeling of cultural evolutionary processes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121(48), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2322880121
田村光平（2024）「文化的ニッチ構築とその周辺」『社会心理学研究』40(2): 100-121.
田村光平（2024）「イアン=ホッダー（著）・三木健裕（訳）『絡まり合うモノと人間：関係性の考古学に向けて』書評」『季刊考古学』167: 108.
田村光平（2024）「パレオゲノミクスの周辺分野への影響と課題」『月刊細胞』56(14): 34-35.

Book chapters

2025

Nishiaki, Y., A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammado (2025) Introduction. In: Damjili Cave– Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus, edited by Y. Nishiaki, A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov, pp. 1–6. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Nishiaki, Y. and K. Shimogama (2025) Site reconnaissance survey in Avey Mountain and its vicinity. In: Damjili Cave– Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus, edited by Y. Nishiaki, A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov, pp. 9–21. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Nishiaki, Y., A. Zeynalov, Y. Mammadov, M. Mansurov, U. Safarova, K. Shiomogama, S. Salimbayov, O. Zamanov, T. Miki, and S. Arai (2025) Renewed excavations at Damjili Cave (2016–2022). In: Damjili Cave– Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus, edited by Y. Nishiaki, A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov, pp. 33–62. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Nishiaki, Y. (2025) Radiocarbon chronology for the cultural sequence of Damjili Cave. In: Damjili Cave– Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus, edited by Y. Nishiaki, A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov, pp. 63–66. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Nishiaki, Y. (2025) Middle Paleolithic lithic artifacts from Damjili Cave. In: Damjili Cave– Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus, edited by Y. Nishiaki, A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov, pp. 77–84. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Nishiaki, Y. (2025) Flaked stone artifacts of the Mesolithic to Bronze Age periods at Damjili Cave, the 2016-2022 seasons. In: Damjili Cave– Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus, edited by Y. Nishiaki, A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov, pp. 85–108. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Nishiaki, Y. (2025) Ground stone artifacts from Damjili Cave. In: Damjili Cave– Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus, edited by Y. Nishiaki, A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov, pp. 85–108. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Nishiaki, Y. (2025) The Mesolithic stone figurine from Damjili Cave. In: Damjili Cave– Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus, edited by Y. Nishiaki, A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov, pp. 135–139. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
Nishiaki, Y., A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov (2025) Damjili Cave in the context of Neolithization in the South Caucasus. In: Damjili Cave– Investigating the Late Pleistocene to Holocene Human History in the Southern Caucasus, edited by Y. Nishiaki, A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov, pp. 193–197. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
田村光平（2025）「人類史を数理で読み解く：『変化を伴う由来』から生じる多様性」『東北大学教養教育院叢書　大学と教養8　新しい途を拓く』東北大学教養教育院編：155-176.
西秋良宏（2025）「考古学にみる集団と社会―西アジア・ネアンデルタール研究からの視点」『パレオアジア新人文化の形成：考古学・民族学からのアプローチ』西秋良宏・野林厚志編:109−133、新泉社。
西秋良宏（2025）「アジア旧石器時代の石器技術と新人の拡散」『パレオアジア新人文化の形成：考古学・民族学からのアプローチ』西秋良宏・野林厚志編：463−474、新泉社。

2024

門脇誠二・廣瀬允人・須賀永帰・オダイタラウネ（2024）「ホモ・サピエンスの拡散・定着期における文化動態：南ヨルダン、カルハ山の旧石器遺跡調査（2023年）」『古代オリエント世界を掘る-第31回西アジア発掘調査報告会』日本西アジア考古学会編31-34。
西秋良宏・アザドゼイナロフ・ヤコブママドフ・仲田大人（2024）「南コーカサス地方のネアンデルタール人─アゼルバイジャン第14次発掘調査（2023年）」『古代オリエント世界を掘る-第31回西アジア発掘調査報告会』日本西アジア考古学会編：9-12。
西秋良宏・下釜和也・ジェラールウルダー・森脇涼太・多田賢弘・佐竹　渉・鈴木健太・ヌルジャンキュチュクアルスラン・新井才二・池山史華（2024）「南東アナトリア先土器新石器時代の丘上遺跡—ハルベトスワン・テペシ遺跡の第2次調査（2023年）」『古代オリエント世界を掘る-第31回西アジア発掘調査報告会』日本西アジア考古学会編：18-21。
野林厚志（2024）「台湾原住民族の葬制―日本統治期の民俗誌が示す埋葬における方位の考察」小野林太郎編『島世界の葬墓制—琉球・海域アジア・オセアニア』雄山閣：369-396

Conference abstracts

2024

Arai, S., A. Zeynalov, Y. Mammadov and Y. Nishiaki (2024) Does the emergence of domestic animals coincide with pastoralization? Paper presented at the World Neolithic Congress, November 4-8, 2024. Abstract, p. 413. Ministry of Culture, Education, and Tourism Turkey, Sanliurufa.
Kadowaki, S., K. Ikeya, Y. Kondo, K. Tsukada, M. Hirose, E. Suga, O. Tarawneh and S. Massadeh (2024) Availability of flint and water in dry sandstone canyons: Paleolithic investigations in the western Hisma Basin, southern Jordan. Oral presentation at Landscape Archaeology Conference, June 12, 2024. Abstract, pp. 118-119. Alcalá de Henares, Spain: University of Alcalá.
Kadowaki, S., N. Kimoto and Y. Kondo (2024) Continuity and changes in marine shell exploitation from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic in Southern Jordan near the Red Sea. Oral presentation at World Neolithic Congress, November 7, 2024. Abstract, p. 550. Şanlıurfa, Turkey: Harran University.
Nakazawa, T., M. Miyagi, K. Kawahara, S. Kadowaki, and Y. Nishiaki (2024) Mass spectrometry of collagen preserved in Neolithic animal bones for the identification of deamidation products of glutamine. Paper presented at the 72nd American Society for Mass Spectrometry Conference, June 2-6, 2024. Abstract, p. XX. Anaheim, California, USA.
Nishiaki, Y., A. Zeynalov and Y. Mammadov (2024) Resumption of the excavations of the Middle Paleolithic Taglar Cave, Karabakh. Invited lecture at the Cultural Heritage of Karabakh and Zangezur in the Archaeological and Ethnographical Researches, November 5-6, 2024. Abstract, pp. 11-12. Baku: Baku State University.
Nishiaki, Y. (2024) Comments on the Origins and Dispersals of Homo Sapiens. Tokyo College Public Lecture, May 9, 2024. Tokyo: Tokyo College. https://www.u-tokyo.ac.jp/focus/en/events/z0405_00299.html
Nishiaki, Y. (2024) Kaynar Kamar: A rockshelter with cultural deposits of the entire Holocene in the Hissar Mountains, South Uzbekistan. Invited lecture at the Issues of History and Historiography of Central Asia dedicated to the 85th Anniversary of Doctor of Historical Sciences R K H. Suleymanov, May 30, 2024. Abstract, pp. 11-12. Tashkent: Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovations of the Republic of Uzbekistan.
Nishiaki, Y. (2024) The late PPNB Tell Seker al-Aheimar, Northeast Syria, in the context of the East Wing of the Neolithic Fertile Crescent. Paper presented at the World Neolithic Congress, November 4-8, 2024. Abstract, p. 523. Ministry of Culture, Education, and Tourism Turkey, Sanliurufa.
Nishiaki, Y. (2024) The Natufian phenomenon in the Northern Levant: A case at Dederiyeh Cave, Syria. Paper presented at the World Neolithic Congress, November 4-8, 2024. Abstract, p. 422. Ministry of Culture, Education, and Tourism Turkey, Sanliurufa.
Nishiaki, Y. (2024) Is the Jomon culture Neolithic? Paper presented at the World Neolithic Congress, November 4-8, 2024. Abstract, p. 77Ministry of Culture, Education, and Tourism Turkey, Sanliurufa.
Nishiaki, Y., F. Guliyev and Y. Mammadov (2024) The last Mesolithic hunter-gatherers at Damjili Cave, west Azerbaijan, the South Caucasus. Paper presented at the World Neolithic Congress, November 4-8, 2024. Abstract, p. 680. Ministry of Culture, Education, and Tourism Turkey, Sanliurufa.
Shimogama, K., U. Celal Uludağ, R. Moriwaki, T. Tada, N. Küçükarslan, W. Satake, K..Suzuki, S. Arai, F. Ikeyama, and Y. Nishiaki (2024) A Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Harbetsuvan Tepesi. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Turkish Archaeology, May 24-27, 2024. Abstract, p. XX. Ministry of Culture, Education, and Tourism Turkey, Ankara.
Shimogama, K., U. Celal Uludağ, R. Moriwaki, T. Tada, N. Küçükarslan, W. Satake, K..Suzuki, S. Arai, F. Ikeyama, and Y. Nishiaki (2024) A Pre-Pottery Neolithic View from Another Stone Hill: Renewed Excavations at Harbetsuvan Tepesi. Paper presented at the World Neolithic Congress, November 4-8, 2024. Abstract, p. 504. Ministry of Culture, Education, and Tourism Turkey, Sanliurufa.
Tamura, K. (2024) Macroscopic comparative studies of archaeological data: Spatiotemporal variability in lithic technology of Paleolithic Asia. SAA 89th Annual Meeting, Apr 20, 2024 Abstract: 975. New Orleans, Louisiana: Marriott Hotel.
Zhang, S., S. Blockley, N. Harman, C. Manning, D. White, R. Timms and S. Kadowaki (2024) Geochemical characterization of Anatolian tephras from Late Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic sites in the Jebel Qalkha area, southern Jordan. Oral presentation at European Geosciences Union General Assembly, April 18, 2024. Vienna, Austria: Austria Center Vienna. doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-718, 2024.
殷健杰・門脇誠二（2024）｢南ヨルダンのTor Hamar遺跡から出土した終末期旧石器時代の細石器の技術形態、衝撃剥離痕および接着剤残滓の研究｣『日本西アジア考古学会第29回総会・大会』南山大学、2024年6月15-16日。要旨集：13-14。
門脇誠二（2024）｢レヴァント地方における上部旧石器小石刃技術の発生に関わる諸問題｣『日本西アジア考古学会第29回総会・大会』南山大学、2024年6月15-16日。要旨集：11-12。
門脇誠二・木元菜奈子・近藤康久・黒住耐二（2024）「南ヨルダンの紅海近郊における海産貝の流通―旧石器から新石器時代にかけての継続性と変化」『オリエント学会第66回年次大会研究発表予稿集』51頁、立教大学、2024年11月12-13日。
木田梨沙子・田村亨・門脇誠二（2024）｢西アジアにおける旧人消滅～新人定着期の考古遺跡の光ルミネッセンス年代測定｣『日本西アジア考古学会第29回総会・大会』南山大学、2024年6月15-16日。要旨集：61-62。
近藤康久・門脇誠二・池谷和信（2024）｢南ヨルダン、カルハ山における旧石器時代人の水資源利用と石材利用｣『日本地球惑星科学連合2024年大会　HCG25 文化水文学』幕張メッセ､2024年5月26-31日。
下釜和也・鈴木健太・池山史華・ジェラールウルダー・西秋良宏（2024）「南東アナトリア先土器新石器時代、ハルベトスワン・テペシ遺跡の年代と編年」『日本西アジア考古学会第29回総会・大会』南山大学、2024年6月15-16日。要旨集：XX-XX。
西秋良宏（2024）「南コーカサス中期旧石器時代石器群の編年と系統についての新知見」『日本西アジア考古学会第29回総会・大会』南山大学、2024年6月15-16日。要旨集：9-10。
廣瀬允人・門脇誠二（2024）｢岩陰遺跡における360度カメラを用いた可視平原率の測定―ヨルダン南部旧石器時代岩陰遺跡群における景観考古学的研究―｣『日本西アジア考古学会第29回総会・大会』南山大学、2024年6月15-16日。要旨集：59-60。