Hirofumi Kato
Biographic Data
| ID | 3638209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hirofumi Kato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hirofumi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kato |
| SIGNATURE | KATO H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hokkaido University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0704-9611 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Usage of lithic tools in the ritual context of Final Jomon period
A sting in the tail
OBJECTIVES: We report here a stingray spine (Dasyatidae) found embedded in the femur of a male skeleton from the archaeological site of Uedomari-5, Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan. MATERIALS: A single well-preserved but incomplete human skeleton. METHODS: Macroscopic observation and low power magnification, CT imaging, radiocarbon dating and stable isotope (carbon, nitrogen) analysis. RESULTS: N (19.3‰) values indicating a diet focused on marine fo…
Cultural adaptations and island ecology
Island chains provide access to terrestrial, coastal and offshore marine resources, attracting peoples and cultures and serving as conduits for migrations and long-distance exchange networks. Situated between Hokkaido and Sakhalin, Rebun Island connected the prehistoric cultures of northeast Asia in a major “marine highway”. Rebun was repeatedly settled by distinct cultures who originated in different geographic locations and left an imprint on t…
Reconstruction of diachronic changes in human fishing activity and marine ecosystems from carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of archaeological fish remains
Building a high-resolution chronology for northern Hokkaido – A case study of the Late Holocene Hamanaka 2 site on Rebun Island, Hokkaido (Japan)
Archaeological radiocarbon dating in coastal northern Hokkaido is challenged by the marine reservoir effect and the scarcity of materials with terrestrial carbon sources. This has contributed to gaps and general uncertainty in the timing of the region's culture-historical periods. The Late Holocene site of Hamanaka 2 on Rebun Island, featuring a stratified shell midden context with excellent preservation of organic remains, provides an ideal sett…
Hokkaido Sequence and the Archaeology of the Ainu People
Evidence of increasing functional differentiation in pottery use among Late Holocene maritime foragers in northern Japan
Hamanaka 2 is a multi-phase coastal site in Rebun Island with a ~ 3000-year occupation sequence extending from the final-stage Jōmon and Okhotsk to the Ainu Culture period (1050 BCE-1850 CE). To examine long-term trends in food processing at the site, we collected 66 ceramic sherds across six distinct cultural layers from the Final Jōmon to the Late Okhotsk period for lipid residue analysis. Given the site's beachfront location in an open bay, wi…
Walnuts, salmon and sika deer
Effects of lipid extraction and different collagen extraction methods on archaeological fish bones and its implications for fish bone diagenesis
Archaeological heritage and Hokkaido Ainu
This chapter focuses on the contemporary issues surrounding the archaeological heritage and the Ainu in Hokkaido. It also focuses on the original characteristics of the archaeological past in northern Japan, especially on Hokkaido Island. The chapter then demonstrates how archaeology can provide an effective and significant mechanism for recognizing the cultural diversity of the archaeological past and its role in the formation of the identity of…
Exploring the emergence of an 'Aquatic' Neolithic in the Russian Far East
Palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island and their potential for improving the chronological control and understanding human–environment interactions in the Hokkaido Region, Japan
Rebun Island with Hamanaka and Funadomari among the 43 documented archaeological sites and the environmental archive stored in the Lake Kushu sediment proves to be one of the key areas to study the interplay between ecology, climate and human activities. This paper focuses on the potential of palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island for improving the chronological control and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes and habitation enviro…
Obsidian resource use from the Jomon to Okhotsk period on Rebun Island
Ecosystem analysis of Baikal Siberia using Palaeolithic faunal assemblages to reconstruct MIS 3 - MIS 2 environments and climate
An Okhotsk adult female human skeleton (11th/12th century AD) with possible Sapho syndrome from Hamanaka 2 site, Rebun Island, northern Japan
We present the oldest human skeletal case yet identified with possible SAPHO syndrome (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis), a chronic disease involving the skin, bone, and joints. A human skeleton with a severe pathological condition was recovered from a shell mound of the prehistoric Okhotsk culture at the Hamanaka 2 site, Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan in 2013. Morphological and Amelogenin gene analyses determined the sex as fem…
Paleoenvironment of the Fore-Baikal region in the Karginian interstadial
Archaeological education program for the primary and secondary schools using ongoing excavation site at the Rebun island in 2013
北海道礼文島に所在する浜中2遺跡の学術調査が行われた2013年7月から8月にかけて,筆者らは礼文町の小中高校向けの考古学教育普及プログラムを実施した。遺跡や出土遺物を利用した考古学教育の目的は,(1)実際に行われている発掘調査に触れることで考古学や人類学への理解を促進する,(2)礼文町で実施されている総合学習「礼文学」が目指す郷土史理解を支援する,(3)礼文町の文化遺産とその保護の重要性を喚起する,ことである。本稿では,考古学と地域社会との連携に関する昨今の動きを概観してから,昨年度実施した小中高校生に対する考古学教育普及プログラムを紹介し,最後に今後の課題と展望を述べる
The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Siberia
Environmental change and cultural dynamics of Holocene hunter–gatherers in Northeast Asia
Upper paleolithic mammal fauna of the Baikal region, east Siberia (new data)
Vertebrate fossils excavated from the Bol'shoj Naryn site, East Siberia
Evidence of increasing functional differentiation in pottery use among Late Holocene maritime foragers in northern Japan
Hamanaka 2 is a multi-phase coastal site in Rebun Island with a ~ 3000-year occupation sequence extending from the final-stage Jōmon and Okhotsk to the Ainu Culture period (1050 BCE-1850 CE). To examine long-term trends in food processing at the site, we collected 66 ceramic sherds across six distinct cultural layers from the Final Jōmon to the Late Okhotsk period for lipid residue analysis. Given the site's beachfront location in an open bay, wi…
Exploring the emergence of an 'Aquatic' Neolithic in the Russian Far East
Palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island and their potential for improving the chronological control and understanding human–environment interactions in the Hokkaido Region, Japan
Rebun Island with Hamanaka and Funadomari among the 43 documented archaeological sites and the environmental archive stored in the Lake Kushu sediment proves to be one of the key areas to study the interplay between ecology, climate and human activities. This paper focuses on the potential of palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island for improving the chronological control and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes and habitation enviro…
Obsidian resource use from the Jomon to Okhotsk period on Rebun Island
Vertebrate fossils excavated from the Bol'shoj Naryn site, East Siberia
Walnuts, salmon and sika deer
Ecosystem analysis of Baikal Siberia using Palaeolithic faunal assemblages to reconstruct MIS 3 - MIS 2 environments and climate
An Okhotsk adult female human skeleton (11th/12th century AD) with possible Sapho syndrome from Hamanaka 2 site, Rebun Island, northern Japan
We present the oldest human skeletal case yet identified with possible SAPHO syndrome (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis), a chronic disease involving the skin, bone, and joints. A human skeleton with a severe pathological condition was recovered from a shell mound of the prehistoric Okhotsk culture at the Hamanaka 2 site, Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan in 2013. Morphological and Amelogenin gene analyses determined the sex as fem…
Paleoenvironment of the Fore-Baikal region in the Karginian interstadial
Upper paleolithic mammal fauna of the Baikal region, east Siberia (new data)
Vertebrate fossils excavated from the Bol'shoj Naryn site, East Siberia
Upper paleolithic mammal fauna of the Baikal region, east Siberia (new data)
The Middle to Upper Paleolithic Transition in Siberia
Environmental change and cultural dynamics of Holocene hunter–gatherers in Northeast Asia
Paleoenvironment of the Fore-Baikal region in the Karginian interstadial
Archaeological education program for the primary and secondary schools using ongoing excavation site at the Rebun island in 2013
北海道礼文島に所在する浜中2遺跡の学術調査が行われた2013年7月から8月にかけて,筆者らは礼文町の小中高校向けの考古学教育普及プログラムを実施した。遺跡や出土遺物を利用した考古学教育の目的は,(1)実際に行われている発掘調査に触れることで考古学や人類学への理解を促進する,(2)礼文町で実施されている総合学習「礼文学」が目指す郷土史理解を支援する,(3)礼文町の文化遺産とその保護の重要性を喚起する,ことである。本稿では,考古学と地域社会との連携に関する昨今の動きを概観してから,昨年度実施した小中高校生に対する考古学教育普及プログラムを紹介し,最後に今後の課題と展望を述べる
Palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island and their potential for improving the chronological control and understanding human–environment interactions in the Hokkaido Region, Japan
Rebun Island with Hamanaka and Funadomari among the 43 documented archaeological sites and the environmental archive stored in the Lake Kushu sediment proves to be one of the key areas to study the interplay between ecology, climate and human activities. This paper focuses on the potential of palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island for improving the chronological control and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes and habitation enviro…
Obsidian resource use from the Jomon to Okhotsk period on Rebun Island
Ecosystem analysis of Baikal Siberia using Palaeolithic faunal assemblages to reconstruct MIS 3 - MIS 2 environments and climate
An Okhotsk adult female human skeleton (11th/12th century AD) with possible Sapho syndrome from Hamanaka 2 site, Rebun Island, northern Japan
We present the oldest human skeletal case yet identified with possible SAPHO syndrome (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, osteitis), a chronic disease involving the skin, bone, and joints. A human skeleton with a severe pathological condition was recovered from a shell mound of the prehistoric Okhotsk culture at the Hamanaka 2 site, Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan in 2013. Morphological and Amelogenin gene analyses determined the sex as fem…
Archaeological heritage and Hokkaido Ainu
This chapter focuses on the contemporary issues surrounding the archaeological heritage and the Ainu in Hokkaido. It also focuses on the original characteristics of the archaeological past in northern Japan, especially on Hokkaido Island. The chapter then demonstrates how archaeology can provide an effective and significant mechanism for recognizing the cultural diversity of the archaeological past and its role in the formation of the identity of…
Exploring the emergence of an 'Aquatic' Neolithic in the Russian Far East
Effects of lipid extraction and different collagen extraction methods on archaeological fish bones and its implications for fish bone diagenesis
Hokkaido Sequence and the Archaeology of the Ainu People
Evidence of increasing functional differentiation in pottery use among Late Holocene maritime foragers in northern Japan
Hamanaka 2 is a multi-phase coastal site in Rebun Island with a ~ 3000-year occupation sequence extending from the final-stage Jōmon and Okhotsk to the Ainu Culture period (1050 BCE-1850 CE). To examine long-term trends in food processing at the site, we collected 66 ceramic sherds across six distinct cultural layers from the Final Jōmon to the Late Okhotsk period for lipid residue analysis. Given the site's beachfront location in an open bay, wi…
Walnuts, salmon and sika deer
Building a high-resolution chronology for northern Hokkaido – A case study of the Late Holocene Hamanaka 2 site on Rebun Island, Hokkaido (Japan)
Archaeological radiocarbon dating in coastal northern Hokkaido is challenged by the marine reservoir effect and the scarcity of materials with terrestrial carbon sources. This has contributed to gaps and general uncertainty in the timing of the region's culture-historical periods. The Late Holocene site of Hamanaka 2 on Rebun Island, featuring a stratified shell midden context with excellent preservation of organic remains, provides an ideal sett…
A sting in the tail
OBJECTIVES: We report here a stingray spine (Dasyatidae) found embedded in the femur of a male skeleton from the archaeological site of Uedomari-5, Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan. MATERIALS: A single well-preserved but incomplete human skeleton. METHODS: Macroscopic observation and low power magnification, CT imaging, radiocarbon dating and stable isotope (carbon, nitrogen) analysis. RESULTS: N (19.3‰) values indicating a diet focused on marine fo…
Cultural adaptations and island ecology
Island chains provide access to terrestrial, coastal and offshore marine resources, attracting peoples and cultures and serving as conduits for migrations and long-distance exchange networks. Situated between Hokkaido and Sakhalin, Rebun Island connected the prehistoric cultures of northeast Asia in a major “marine highway”. Rebun was repeatedly settled by distinct cultures who originated in different geographic locations and left an imprint on t…
Reconstruction of diachronic changes in human fishing activity and marine ecosystems from carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios of archaeological fish remains
Usage of lithic tools in the ritual context of Final Jomon period
Geography (19 works) · Archaeology (18 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 works) · Biology (11 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Geology (7 works) · History (6 works) · Isotope Analysis in Ecology (6 works)