Takehiro Miki

Biographic Data

ID4121849
NAMETakehiro Miki
GIVEN NAMESTakehiro
FAMILY NAMEMiki
SIGNATUREMIKI T
AFFILIATIONSThe University Museum The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan
ORCID0000-0003-3155-9176
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Halaf and Late Chalcolithic occupations at Shakar Tepe in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan

    Open AccessTakahiro Odaka, Osamu Maeda et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Research in Asia2025References: 3

    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…

  • Millennial-Scale Transformations of Land Use in a Canyon in Southeast Arabia

    Open AccessTaichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki et al.ARTICLEOpen Quaternary2025References: 6

    The lowland oases and highland plateaus of Southeast Arabia have been occupied since ancient times due to the availability of groundwater resulting from abundant precipitation in the mountains. By contrast, the land use of intermediate narrow canyons as pathways to transport between oases and mountains has not been fully understood, and thus the holistic understanding of how people have used and adapted to arid land still remains to be pursued. T…

  • Petrographic and geochemical analyses of pottery from Wadi Tanuf, Oman

    Open AccessTakehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma et al.ARTICLEArchaeometry2024References: 20

    This study describes the petrographic and geochemical characteristics of pottery collected from Mugharat al‐Kahf and WTN02 in Wadi Tanuf, north‐central Oman, to clarify interregional similarities and differences in pottery production techniques and examine the existence of interregional trade in pottery with respect to changes in mobile communities. Potsherds from these sites were characterised using thin‐section petrography and instrumental neut…

  • Archaeological surveys of a canyon and floodplain in the Tanūf District, North‐Central Oman

    Open AccessTaichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki et al.ARTICLEArabian archaeology and epigraphy2022References: 8

    The highly‐elevated and rugged topography of the Al‐Ḥajar Mountains in Northern Oman requires a topographically‐optimised survey methodology. To reconstruct the archaeological landscapes in the southern piedmont area of the Tanūf District, we applied a combined ground survey and satellite imagery analysis. In the narrow canyon, we travelled towards visible caves on the cliffs and cairns on the ridges and recorded all encountered sites on the way.…

  • Cave occupations in Southeastern Arabia in the second millennium BCE

    Open AccessTakehiro Miki, Taichi Kuronuma et al.ARTICLEArabian archaeology and epigraphy2022Cited by: 3References: 13

    This paper reports the results of excavation at Mugharat al‐Kahf (WTN01) in Wādī Tanūf, North‐central Oman. It also provides information on the nonmortuary and nonsedentary activities in central Oman during the Wādī Sūq period (2000–1600 BCE), as the subsistence and social arrangements of this period are the subject of much debate. Previous surveys had discovered a substantial amount of Wādī Sūq pottery at the site. This project took forward the …

  • Ceramic Change during the Chalcolithic Period in Marv Dasht Plain, Southwest Iran

    Open AccessTakehiro MikiARTICLEBulletin of the Society for Near…2016

    The Chalcolithic, especially the 5th millennium BC, cultural period of Marv Dasht plain, Fars, southwest Iran, is called the Bakun period. It has been classified into Early, Middle, and Late phases. Some researchers identify this period as the initial stage of socioeconomic complexity (Sumner 1994; Alizadeh 2006). While the processes of the changes in settlement patterns during the Bakun period have been well studied to clarify social development…

  • Concurrent and sustainable development of a local-scale digital heritage inventory through action research at Bat, Oman

    Open AccessYasuhisa Kondo, Takehiro Miki et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cultural Heritage…2016

    Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a concurrent implementation of sustainable inventory for the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn in the interior of Oman. Design/methodology/approach – A digital heritage inventory (DHI) was developed through an action research to realize demands of the local agent and to co-design the solution. The Ministry of Heritage and Culture of Oman, the local agent, demanded to have arc…

  • Investigating Cultural and Socioeconomic Change at the Beginning of the Pottery Neolithic in the Southern Caucasus

    Y Nishiaki, Farhad Guliyev et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the American Schools…2015

    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…

  • The Acceptance of Black on Buff Ware in Chalcolithic Southwest Iran

    Open AccessTakehiro MikiARTICLEBulletin of the Society for Near…2014

    Black on Buff ware, which characterizes the cultural entity "Bakun", was accepted in the beginning of the 5th millennium BC of Fars, southwest Iran, and this phenomenon coincides with the shift from Neolithic to Chalcolithic in this area. Two issues remain unclarified as to this phenomenon. First, the precise timing of the acceptance of the Black on Buff ware is unclear. Secondly, the process of the acceptance of the Black on Buff ware should als…