Osamu Maeda
Biographic Data
| ID | 312559 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Osamu Maeda |
| GIVEN NAMES | Osamu |
| FAMILY NAME | Maeda |
| SIGNATURE | MAEDA O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tsukuba |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4700-6541 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Halaf and Late Chalcolithic occupations at Shakar Tepe in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Preliminary report of the 2023 excavations
The Shahrizor Plain is one of the ideal fields for tracking the transition from Neolithic village life in the Fertile Crescent to Urbanisation which occurred in Mesopotamia because of its geographical location connecting the mountainside valleys along the Zagros and the downstream Diyala River that flows into the Tigris. Our field project aims to obtain archaeological materials to unveil this process. Following the first excavations at Shakar Tep…
What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: A view from Qminas (north‐w…
This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that sickle blades were used for low‐cut harvesting of ripe domesticated cereals, reflecting a fully establishe…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Paleolithic and Neolithic Archaeology in the Near East: Recent Achievements by Japanese Expeditions
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…
Qminas in 1981: Excavations of a Late PPNB to Pottery Neolithic Settlement in Northwest Syria
It has been 40 years since the excavations of Qminas in northwest Syria were carried out in 1981 by a Japanese-Syrian team, who uncovered a Neolithic settlement with an occupational sequence from the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to the Pottery Neolithic periods. However, during a long time after the excavations, the results of the investigation have only been briefly reported, and the artifacts recovered during the excavations have never been stu…
Inefficient practice of flint heat treatment at Hasankeyf Höyük: An anti-functional view
This paper investigates the heat treatment of flint practiced at the Neolithic site of Hasankeyf Höyük in southeast Turkey. It does not involve petrographic or geochemical analysis to identify the physical and chemical evidence of heat treatment but aims to understand cultural aspects of the use of ancient lithic technology, using heat treatment as a case study. Heat treatment is a lithic production technique in which siliceous rocks are heated b…
Hunter-fisher-gatherer river transportation: Insights from sourcing the obsidian of Hasankeyf Höyük, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A village on the Upper Tigris (SE Turkey)
Introduction: Immersed in Lithics
The idea of holding a conference to discuss how we can explore what affects our approaches to, and understanding of, lithic artefacts and their analysis emerged from a hands-on workshop entitled Northern Knap-in in November 2014. In that workshop we wanted to explore how prehistoric people in the north of England, which is perceived by many as being a (lithic)resource-poor region, might have adapted to the lack of good quality flint and chert for…
Profiling an unlocated source: Group 3d obsidian in prehistoric and early historic near East
Obsidian provenance analyses at Göytepe, Azerbaijan: Implications for understanding Neolithic socioeconomies in the southern Caucasus
This study presents a provenance analysis of the Neolithic obsidian assemblages from the early to mid‐sixth millennium bc settlement at Göytepe, Azerbaijan. The study is unique in that (1) it involves a complete, non‐selected obsidian assemblage (901 artefacts) from one particular area of the site; (2) the material is derived from a well‐stratified sequence of 10 securely radiocarbon‐dated architectural levels; and (3) the use of an extraordinari…
Lithic analysis and the transition to the Neolithic in the Upper Tigris Valley: Recent excavations at Hasankeyf Höyük
Preference for fish in a Neolithic hunter-gatherer community of the upper Tigris, elucidated by amino acid δ15N analysis
Materiality of Chipped Stone: The Meaning and the Role of Obsidian in the Neolithic Near East
A theoretical reasoning that employs the concept of ‘materiality’ explains that materials are always meaningfully constituted and play an active role in mediating our understanding of society. Since we usually understand the structure of society through our experience of day-to-day social activities, which usually involve engagements with materials, our recognition of society is often achieved with reference to the meaningful materials involved i…
The Early PPNB in The North Levant: A New Perspective from Tell Ain el-Kerkh, Northwest Syria
The recent discovery of EPPNB occupation at Tell Ain el-Kerkh (ca 9 400-9 200 uncal. BP) in northwest Syria provides a new perspective of the early stage of Neolithisation in the north Levant. The archaeological evidence from Kerkh shows first that the earliest Neolithic occupation in northwest Syria goes back to the EPPNB period and revises the generally accepted hypothesis that the Neolithisation in this region started in the LPPNB. In addition…
Lithic analysis and the transition to the Neolithic in the Upper Tigris Valley: Recent excavations at Hasankeyf Höyük
Profiling an unlocated source: Group 3d obsidian in prehistoric and early historic near East
Obsidian provenance analyses at Göytepe, Azerbaijan: Implications for understanding Neolithic socioeconomies in the southern Caucasus
This study presents a provenance analysis of the Neolithic obsidian assemblages from the early to mid‐sixth millennium bc settlement at Göytepe, Azerbaijan. The study is unique in that (1) it involves a complete, non‐selected obsidian assemblage (901 artefacts) from one particular area of the site; (2) the material is derived from a well‐stratified sequence of 10 securely radiocarbon‐dated architectural levels; and (3) the use of an extraordinari…
Introduction: Immersed in Lithics
The idea of holding a conference to discuss how we can explore what affects our approaches to, and understanding of, lithic artefacts and their analysis emerged from a hands-on workshop entitled Northern Knap-in in November 2014. In that workshop we wanted to explore how prehistoric people in the north of England, which is perceived by many as being a (lithic)resource-poor region, might have adapted to the lack of good quality flint and chert for…
The Early PPNB in The North Levant: A New Perspective from Tell Ain el-Kerkh, Northwest Syria
The recent discovery of EPPNB occupation at Tell Ain el-Kerkh (ca 9 400-9 200 uncal. BP) in northwest Syria provides a new perspective of the early stage of Neolithisation in the north Levant. The archaeological evidence from Kerkh shows first that the earliest Neolithic occupation in northwest Syria goes back to the EPPNB period and revises the generally accepted hypothesis that the Neolithisation in this region started in the LPPNB. In addition…
Materiality of Chipped Stone: The Meaning and the Role of Obsidian in the Neolithic Near East
A theoretical reasoning that employs the concept of ‘materiality’ explains that materials are always meaningfully constituted and play an active role in mediating our understanding of society. Since we usually understand the structure of society through our experience of day-to-day social activities, which usually involve engagements with materials, our recognition of society is often achieved with reference to the meaningful materials involved i…
Preference for fish in a Neolithic hunter-gatherer community of the upper Tigris, elucidated by amino acid δ15N analysis
Lithic analysis and the transition to the Neolithic in the Upper Tigris Valley: Recent excavations at Hasankeyf Höyük
Obsidian provenance analyses at Göytepe, Azerbaijan: Implications for understanding Neolithic socioeconomies in the southern Caucasus
This study presents a provenance analysis of the Neolithic obsidian assemblages from the early to mid‐sixth millennium bc settlement at Göytepe, Azerbaijan. The study is unique in that (1) it involves a complete, non‐selected obsidian assemblage (901 artefacts) from one particular area of the site; (2) the material is derived from a well‐stratified sequence of 10 securely radiocarbon‐dated architectural levels; and (3) the use of an extraordinari…
Profiling an unlocated source: Group 3d obsidian in prehistoric and early historic near East
Inefficient practice of flint heat treatment at Hasankeyf Höyük: An anti-functional view
This paper investigates the heat treatment of flint practiced at the Neolithic site of Hasankeyf Höyük in southeast Turkey. It does not involve petrographic or geochemical analysis to identify the physical and chemical evidence of heat treatment but aims to understand cultural aspects of the use of ancient lithic technology, using heat treatment as a case study. Heat treatment is a lithic production technique in which siliceous rocks are heated b…
Hunter-fisher-gatherer river transportation: Insights from sourcing the obsidian of Hasankeyf Höyük, a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A village on the Upper Tigris (SE Turkey)
Introduction: Immersed in Lithics
The idea of holding a conference to discuss how we can explore what affects our approaches to, and understanding of, lithic artefacts and their analysis emerged from a hands-on workshop entitled Northern Knap-in in November 2014. In that workshop we wanted to explore how prehistoric people in the north of England, which is perceived by many as being a (lithic)resource-poor region, might have adapted to the lack of good quality flint and chert for…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Paleolithic and Neolithic Archaeology in the Near East: Recent Achievements by Japanese Expeditions
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…
Qminas in 1981: Excavations of a Late PPNB to Pottery Neolithic Settlement in Northwest Syria
It has been 40 years since the excavations of Qminas in northwest Syria were carried out in 1981 by a Japanese-Syrian team, who uncovered a Neolithic settlement with an occupational sequence from the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic B to the Pottery Neolithic periods. However, during a long time after the excavations, the results of the investigation have only been briefly reported, and the artifacts recovered during the excavations have never been stu…
Halaf and Late Chalcolithic occupations at Shakar Tepe in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Preliminary report of the 2023 excavations
The Shahrizor Plain is one of the ideal fields for tracking the transition from Neolithic village life in the Fertile Crescent to Urbanisation which occurred in Mesopotamia because of its geographical location connecting the mountainside valleys along the Zagros and the downstream Diyala River that flows into the Tigris. Our field project aims to obtain archaeological materials to unveil this process. Following the first excavations at Shakar Tep…
What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia: A view from Qminas (north‐w…
This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that sickle blades were used for low‐cut harvesting of ripe domesticated cereals, reflecting a fully establishe…
Archaeology (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · History (8 works) · Ancient Near East History (6 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (4 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 works) · Excavation (3 works) · Geology (3 works)