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YANO Kenichi

Department / Course College of Letters Japanese History Program

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of Letters
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Art Research Center
3.	Kinugasa Research Organization Research Center for the Pan-Pacific Civilization
4.	Research Organization of Science and Technology Research Centre for Palaeoclimatology

Academic background
1.	2013/03 Degree Acquisition	│ Kyoto University Ph.D. (Literature)
2.	～1984	Archaeology │ Faculty of Literature │ Kyoto University │ Graduated
3.	～1993	Doctorial Course │ Archeology │ Kyoto University

Research activities
1.		Kansai Jomon Culture Research Society
2.		Kyoto Jomon Research Society Affiliation
3.		Society of Archaeological Studies
4.		Tokyo Archaeology Society
5.		South Kyushu Jomon Research Society
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Subject of research
1.	The Study of Jomon culture

Research summary
Transition and locality of culture in the Jomon period Keeping in mind, the comparison between the Jomon period and other periods or cultures, reexamination is being made on the transition and localized features of culture in the Jomon period, from its foundation.

Present specialized field
Keyword：archaeology (Jomon period)

Papers
1.	2026/02/22	The Excavation of Takashima-kurotsuchi Site in Okayama Prefecture and the Mith of the Eastern Expedition of Emperor Jinmu │ (696),pp.1-10
2.	2025/08	Archaeological 3D Scanning in Context - Multi-scalar 3D Capture and Visualization from the Final Jomon Period Sugisawa Site │ ART RESEARCH │ 26 (1),pp.3-15
3.	2024/03/25	The Utilization of Pottery Quantities in Examining Population DynamicsーA Case Study Sites from the Kyoto University Campus in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City │ ,pp.79-90
4.	2023/03/31	Preliminary study on the demographics of the Kitashirakawa Jomon Archaeological Sites estimated from pottery counts │ ,pp.66-77
5.	2022/03/25	A Restoration Plan as Knitted Cloth for the Product Made by Lacquered Strings at Kakinoshima B Site and the Interim Report for its Experimental Restoration │
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2025/07/05	Summary of the Survey Results of the Location of Pottery at the Tsuzuraozaki Underwater Site
2.	2024/07/27	Overview of the Lakebed Exploration at the TsuzuraozakiUnderwater Archaeological Site Using AUV
3.	2022/07/05	Using photogrammetry to help better understand the submerged pottery of the Tsuzuraozaki site at Lake Biwa
4.	2022/07	Uncovering Kyoto University: utilizing past reports to track occupational density over 10,000 years
5.	2018/06/11	Robotic Archaeological Survey of Tsuzuraozaki Site in the Lake Biwa, Japan
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Other research achievements
1.	2017/06/16 ～ 2017/06/24	Pre-Exhibition "Art and Archaeology-time,timer,timest An archaeological site in a summer vacation