Seiji Kadowaki
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 129581 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Seiji Kadowaki |
| NOMBRES | Seiji |
| APELLIDO | Kadowaki |
| FIRMA | KADOWAKI S |
| AFILIACIONES | Nagoya University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3849-0549 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 191 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Impact Fractures and Adhesive Remains on Early and Middle Epipaleolithic Microliths from Tor Hamar, Southern Jordan
Epipaleolithic assemblages in the Levant are characterized by frequent occurrences of microliths, and functional studies of microliths increased recently. To increase case studies of microlith use as projectiles in the inland dry zone of the Levant, we present macroscopic functional analyses of Epipaleolithic microliths from Tor Hamar, located in the Jebel Qalkha area, southern Jordan. We report the occurrences of impact fractures and their type-…
Shepherds and animal husbandry, origins, and development
Hearth management at a middle Paleolithic rock shelter site
Explaining the Increase in “High-quality Chert” in the Early Upper Paleolithic Artifacts in Southern Jordan
Petrographic and geochemical characterization of chert artifacts from Middle, Upper, and Epi‐Paleolithic assemblages in the Jebel Qalkha area, southern Jordan
This study conducted petrographic and geochemical analyses of chert artifacts from the Late Middle Paleolithic, the Initial Upper Paleolithic, the Early Upper Paleolithic, and the Epi‐Paleolithic assemblages in the Jebel Qalkha area, southern Jordan, to examine their correlations with the visual attributes and diachronic variability. The results revealed two different aspects of the petrographic and geochemical signatures. The first aspect showed…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This volume of Orient features archaeological studies on the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods in the Near East, focusing on the results of Japanese expeditions.The Japanese contributions to this research area have grown and diversified since the pioneering works in the 1950s-60s by the University of Tokyo expeditions in Iraq, Iran, and Israel, which were augmented in subsequent decades by Paleolithic and Neolithic investigations in Lebanon, Syri…
Epipaleolithic Hunting in an Arid Area of the Levant
This paper analyzes the Mushabian (ca. 15000 cal BP) animal bones newly obtained from Tor Hamar, one of the Epipaleolithic sites located in the southern marginal arid regions of Jordan. We evaluate diachronic trends in the faunal compositions by comparing four sub-regions in the southern Levant. Although the taxonomic composition of Tor Hamar fauna was slightly different from previous reports, the general trend was similar to the previous one. Nu…
Survey for Chert Outcrops in the Western Hisma Basin, Southern Jordan and Its Implications for Paleolithic Raw Material Procurement
In the southern Levant, a study region of this paper, chert (flint) is the main raw material of chipped stone artifacts, and the availability and variability of chert have been increasingly examined through surveys for chert outcrops. This paper reports the results of geological survey for chert sources near the Jebel Qalkha area located at the northwestern corner of the Hisma Basin in southern Jordan. Although chert outcrops are generally ubiqui…
Investigating changes in lithic raw material use from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic in Jebel Qalkha, southern Jordan
Although the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the Levant is known for changes in multiple aspects of archaeological records such as lithic technology, subsistence practices, and the use of ornaments, little is known about whether any change occurred in lithic raw material use over this period. To examine this underexplored issue, this paper presents an analysis of raw material (chert) variations in four lithic assemblages that represent the…
Variability in Lithic Production Technology during the Range Expansion of Paleolithic Modern Humans
Investigating early husbandry strategies in the southern Caucasus
Frequency and production technology of bladelets in Late Middle Paleolithic, Initial Upper Paleolithic, and Early Upper Paleolithic (Ahmarian) assemblages in Jebel Qalkha, Southern Jordan
Lithic Technology and Chronology of Initial Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at Tor Fawaz, Southern Jordan
The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is a key chrono-cultural concept in our understanding of the cultural and population dynamics at the transition from the Middle Paleolithic to Upper Paleolithic period. This paper presents technological and chronological analyses of lithic assemblages from a rockshelter site at Tor Fawaz in the Jebel Qalkha area, southern Jordan, to provide accurate dating and detailed recognition of the IUP variability in the …
West Asia
Application of the ecocultural range expansion model to modern human dispersals in Asia
Modern human dispersal to Asia is drawing more researchers' attention as more Asian records become available in archaeology, paleoanthropology and genetics. The ecocultural range expansion model, based on ecological competition between archaic and modern humans and on a population-culture feedback loop, predicts two types of modern human range expansion, namely the first wave and the second wave. This ‘two-wave model’ has been applied to dispersa…
Lithic technology, chronology, and marine shells from Wadi Aghar, southern Jordan, and Initial Upper Paleolithic behaviors in the southern inland Levant
Ahmarian or Levantine Aurignacian? Wadi Kharar 16R and New Insights into the Upper Palaeolithic Lithic Technology in the Northeastern Levant
Ecological Niche and Least-Cost Path Analyses to Estimate Optimal Migration Routes of Initial Upper Palaeolithic Populations to Eurasia
Neolithic residential patterns in the southern Caucasus
Morphometric and refitting analyses of flaked stone artifacts from Tabaqat al-Bûma and al-Basatîn, northern Jordan
Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Ancient Domestic Goats in the Southern Caucasus
This study presents preliminary results of mitochondrial DNA analyses of modern and ancient domestic goats in the southern Caucasus in order to examine their phylogenetic relationship with modern and ancient goats. For this purpose, seven ancient samples were obtained from two early agricultural villages in west Azerbaijan (Göytepe and Hacı Elamxanlı tepe, dated to ca. 6000–5500 cal bc, the Pottery Neolithic period), in addition to five modern go…
Chipped Stone Technology of the Earliest Agricultural Village in the Southern Caucasus
New Epipalaeolithic assemblages from the middle Euphrates and the implications for technological and settlement trends in the northeastern Levant
A Population-Genetics Based Model for Explaining Apparent Cultural Continuity from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia
Investigating Cultural and Socioeconomic Change at the Beginning of the Pottery Neolithic in the Southern Caucasus
Recent research on the Neolithic period of the southern Caucasus situates the emergence of an established food-producing economy at the beginning of the sixth millennium b.c. This article reports on the 2013 season of excavations at Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe, western Azerbaijan, currently one of the oldest sites providing evidence of early agriculture, which represents the earliest stage of the Shomutepe-Shulaveri culture. Excavations yielded a rich ar…
Early Neolithic household behavior at Tell Seker al-Aheimar (Upper Khabur, Syria)
Variability in Early Ahmarian lithic technology and its implications for the model of a Levantine origin of the Protoaurignacian
This paper re-examines lithic technological variability of the Early Ahmarian, one of the early Upper Palaeolithic cultural entities in the Levant, which has often been regarded as a precursor of the Protoaurignacian (the early Upper Palaeolithic in Europe) in arguments for the occurrence of a cultural spread in association with the dispersal of Homo sapiens from the Levant to Europe. Using quantitative data on several lithic techno-typological a…
Geoarchaeological and palaeobotanical evidence for prehistoric cereal storage in the southern Caucasus
Lithic Technology and Chronology of Initial Upper Paleolithic Assemblages at Tor Fawaz, Southern Jordan
The Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) is a key chrono-cultural concept in our understanding of the cultural and population dynamics at the transition from the Middle Paleolithic to Upper Paleolithic period. This paper presents technological and chronological analyses of lithic assemblages from a rockshelter site at Tor Fawaz in the Jebel Qalkha area, southern Jordan, to provide accurate dating and detailed recognition of the IUP variability in the …
Chronological Contexts of the Earliest Pottery Neolithic in the South Caucasus
Research on the earliest Neolithic in the South Caucasus is still in its early stages. Establishing a solid chronological framework will help determine the timing of the emergence and subsequent development of regional Neolithic societies. This article reports on 46 radiocarbon dates obtained from the two recently excavated Early Pottery Neolithic sites of Göytepe and Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe, the oldest farming villages known to date in West Azerbaij…
Frequency and production technology of bladelets in Late Middle Paleolithic, Initial Upper Paleolithic, and Early Upper Paleolithic (Ahmarian) assemblages in Jebel Qalkha, Southern Jordan
Late Neolithic Settlement in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Research in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan, has focused on the discovery and excavation of Late Neolithic sites in an attempt to understand its regional settlement system in the sixth millennium cal. BC. Previous evidence suggested that small hamlets or farmsteads may have characterized this settlement system, as represented at Tabaqat al-Bûma. Recent excavations at a site downstream, al-Basatîn, have revealed evidence for a settlement that was par…
Designs and Production Technology of Sickle Elements in Late Neolithic Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan
Cette étude examine les éléments de faucille des établissements agricoles du Néolithique Récent dans le Sud du Levant ; l 'attention se porte plus particulièrement sur la morphologie des outils et la technologie de production. Les résultats de l'analyse suggèrent que les deux établissements du Wadi Ziqlab présentent une plus grande similarité morphologique des éléments de faucille que ne le font dans les autres régions les sites de même culture (…
Explaining the Increase in “High-quality Chert” in the Early Upper Paleolithic Artifacts in Southern Jordan
Investigating changes in lithic raw material use from the Middle Paleolithic to the Upper Paleolithic in Jebel Qalkha, southern Jordan
Although the Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in the Levant is known for changes in multiple aspects of archaeological records such as lithic technology, subsistence practices, and the use of ornaments, little is known about whether any change occurred in lithic raw material use over this period. To examine this underexplored issue, this paper presents an analysis of raw material (chert) variations in four lithic assemblages that represent the…
Lithic technology, chronology, and marine shells from Wadi Aghar, southern Jordan, and Initial Upper Paleolithic behaviors in the southern inland Levant
Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Ancient Domestic Goats in the Southern Caucasus
This study presents preliminary results of mitochondrial DNA analyses of modern and ancient domestic goats in the southern Caucasus in order to examine their phylogenetic relationship with modern and ancient goats. For this purpose, seven ancient samples were obtained from two early agricultural villages in west Azerbaijan (Göytepe and Hacı Elamxanlı tepe, dated to ca. 6000–5500 cal bc, the Pottery Neolithic period), in addition to five modern go…
Survey for Chert Outcrops in the Western Hisma Basin, Southern Jordan and Its Implications for Paleolithic Raw Material Procurement
In the southern Levant, a study region of this paper, chert (flint) is the main raw material of chipped stone artifacts, and the availability and variability of chert have been increasingly examined through surveys for chert outcrops. This paper reports the results of geological survey for chert sources near the Jebel Qalkha area located at the northwestern corner of the Hisma Basin in southern Jordan. Although chert outcrops are generally ubiqui…
Investigating early husbandry strategies in the southern Caucasus
Application of the ecocultural range expansion model to modern human dispersals in Asia
Modern human dispersal to Asia is drawing more researchers' attention as more Asian records become available in archaeology, paleoanthropology and genetics. The ecocultural range expansion model, based on ecological competition between archaic and modern humans and on a population-culture feedback loop, predicts two types of modern human range expansion, namely the first wave and the second wave. This ‘two-wave model’ has been applied to dispersa…
Reconstructing Early Neolithic Social and Economic Organization through Spatial Analysis at Ayn Abu Nukhayla, Southern Jordan
This study involves the high-resolution spatial analysis of a 9,500-year-old Early Neolithic site in an effort to reconstruct the social and economic organization of the settlement at household and community scales. We introduce an approach to distinguishing stratified occupational surfaces (floors) from intervening deposits (fills), to tracing the different formation processes associated with floors and fills, and to critically examining various…
Dhra', Excavation Project, 2002 Interim Report
This is an interim report on the second season of fieldwork and post-excavation analysis on the Pottery Neolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Dhra', near the southern end of the Dead Sea in Jordan. Excavations to date have produced rich assemblages of pottery and lithics. In addition sets of features that can be attributed to each phase have been identified. Those from the PPNA are generally better preserved than those of the Pottery Neolit…
The Early Neolithic Site of Ayn Abū Nukhayla, Southern Jordan
Three seasons of research at the Middle PPNB site of Ayn Abū Nukhayla indicate that it experienced intermittent, seasonal occupations spanning a period of ca. 200 years, centered on 8500 b. p. Despite being located in a hyperarid setting in southern Jordan, the site displays extensive architecture and other evidence of intensive occupation. Settlement of the site appears to have been triggered by a moist pulse that produced sufficient upland run-…
Designs and Production Technology of Sickle Elements in Late Neolithic Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan
Cette étude examine les éléments de faucille des établissements agricoles du Néolithique Récent dans le Sud du Levant ; l 'attention se porte plus particulièrement sur la morphologie des outils et la technologie de production. Les résultats de l'analyse suggèrent que les deux établissements du Wadi Ziqlab présentent une plus grande similarité morphologique des éléments de faucille que ne le font dans les autres régions les sites de même culture (…
Late Neolithic Settlement in Wadi Ziqlab, Jordan
Research in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan, has focused on the discovery and excavation of Late Neolithic sites in an attempt to understand its regional settlement system in the sixth millennium cal. BC. Previous evidence suggested that small hamlets or farmsteads may have characterized this settlement system, as represented at Tabaqat al-Bûma. Recent excavations at a site downstream, al-Basatîn, have revealed evidence for a settlement that was par…
Site-Structure and Households at a Late Neolithic Settlement of Tabaqat al-Bûma, Northern Jordan
This paper examines the spatial structure of a Late Neolithic farmstead at the site of Tabaqat al-Bûma in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan. The excavations at the site recovered at least ten rectangular stone-walled buildings, only some of which were occupied contemporaneously during one of the five occupational phases that were defined by the stratigraphic analyses and radiocarbon dates. Focussing on one of the building phases (Phase 3), that was oc…
Early Bronze I Occupation at al-Basatîn, in Wadi Ziqlab, Northern Jordan
Excavations at al-Basatîn in Wadi Ziqlab, northern Jordan, have recovered evidence for an EB I occupation at the site, in addition to strata dating to the Late Neolithic and Classical periods. Artifacts and a series of radiocarbon assays indicate this occupation dates to the early EB I. Analyses of the pottery, stone tools, and faunal remains suggest the site was a small, perhaps somewhat isolated, farmstead that was engaged in a variety of domes…
Issues of Chronological and Geographical Distributions of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic Cultural Variability in the Levant and Implications for the Learning Behavior of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens
Early Neolithic household behavior at Tell Seker al-Aheimar (Upper Khabur, Syria)
Geoarchaeological and palaeobotanical evidence for prehistoric cereal storage in the southern Caucasus
Reconstructing Early Neolithic Social and Economic Organization through Spatial Analysis at Ayn Abu Nukhayla, Southern Jordan
This study involves the high-resolution spatial analysis of a 9,500-year-old Early Neolithic site in an effort to reconstruct the social and economic organization of the settlement at household and community scales. We introduce an approach to distinguishing stratified occupational surfaces (floors) from intervening deposits (fills), to tracing the different formation processes associated with floors and fills, and to critically examining various…
A Population-Genetics Based Model for Explaining Apparent Cultural Continuity from the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia
Investigating Cultural and Socioeconomic Change at the Beginning of the Pottery Neolithic in the Southern Caucasus
Recent research on the Neolithic period of the southern Caucasus situates the emergence of an established food-producing economy at the beginning of the sixth millennium b.c. This article reports on the 2013 season of excavations at Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe, western Azerbaijan, currently one of the oldest sites providing evidence of early agriculture, which represents the earliest stage of the Shomutepe-Shulaveri culture. Excavations yielded a rich ar…
Variability in Early Ahmarian lithic technology and its implications for the model of a Levantine origin of the Protoaurignacian
This paper re-examines lithic technological variability of the Early Ahmarian, one of the early Upper Palaeolithic cultural entities in the Levant, which has often been regarded as a precursor of the Protoaurignacian (the early Upper Palaeolithic in Europe) in arguments for the occurrence of a cultural spread in association with the dispersal of Homo sapiens from the Levant to Europe. Using quantitative data on several lithic techno-typological a…
Chronological Contexts of the Earliest Pottery Neolithic in the South Caucasus
Research on the earliest Neolithic in the South Caucasus is still in its early stages. Establishing a solid chronological framework will help determine the timing of the emergence and subsequent development of regional Neolithic societies. This article reports on 46 radiocarbon dates obtained from the two recently excavated Early Pottery Neolithic sites of Göytepe and Hacı Elamxanlı Tepe, the oldest farming villages known to date in West Azerbaij…
Chipped Stone Technology of the Earliest Agricultural Village in the Southern Caucasus
New Epipalaeolithic assemblages from the middle Euphrates and the implications for technological and settlement trends in the northeastern Levant
Mitochondrial DNA Analysis of Ancient Domestic Goats in the Southern Caucasus
This study presents preliminary results of mitochondrial DNA analyses of modern and ancient domestic goats in the southern Caucasus in order to examine their phylogenetic relationship with modern and ancient goats. For this purpose, seven ancient samples were obtained from two early agricultural villages in west Azerbaijan (Göytepe and Hacı Elamxanlı tepe, dated to ca. 6000–5500 cal bc, the Pottery Neolithic period), in addition to five modern go…
Ahmarian or Levantine Aurignacian? Wadi Kharar 16R and New Insights into the Upper Palaeolithic Lithic Technology in the Northeastern Levant
Ecological Niche and Least-Cost Path Analyses to Estimate Optimal Migration Routes of Initial Upper Palaeolithic Populations to Eurasia
Neolithic residential patterns in the southern Caucasus
Morphometric and refitting analyses of flaked stone artifacts from Tabaqat al-Bûma and al-Basatîn, northern Jordan
Lithic technology, chronology, and marine shells from Wadi Aghar, southern Jordan, and Initial Upper Paleolithic behaviors in the southern inland Levant
West Asia
Application of the ecocultural range expansion model to modern human dispersals in Asia
Modern human dispersal to Asia is drawing more researchers' attention as more Asian records become available in archaeology, paleoanthropology and genetics. The ecocultural range expansion model, based on ecological competition between archaic and modern humans and on a population-culture feedback loop, predicts two types of modern human range expansion, namely the first wave and the second wave. This ‘two-wave model’ has been applied to dispersa…
Variability in Lithic Production Technology during the Range Expansion of Paleolithic Modern Humans
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