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Ancestry profile of Japanese genetic clusters illustrating their genetic similarities to five mainland Asian populations [46]. Gyaneshwer Chaubey and George van Driem (2020) suggest that the Jōmon people were rather heterogeneous, and that there was also a pre-Yayoi migration during the Jōmon period, which may be linked to the arrival of the Japonic languages, meaning that Japonic is one of ...
Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) is an international academic association concerned with furthering the field of anthropology of Japan. JAWS holds major conferences – some in conjunction with the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) – as well as smaller workshops and seminars. It runs a website and issues a newsletter.
Rudolf Martin was a Professor of Physical Anthropology in Munich, who had become inspired by the discovery of the ‘Java Man’ (Pithecanthropus erectus) in 1893 in Java, by the Dutch anthropologist Eugene Dubois. Dubois' publications on the 'Missing Link' became the CenterPoint of the Archive of Rudolf Martin, comprising more than 43,000 ...
The National Museum of Ethnology (国立民族学博物館, Kokuritsu Minzoku-gaku Hakubutsukan), also known as the Minpaku (民博), is the largest ethnographic museum in Japan. [1] It is Japan's largest research institute in the academic disciplines of humanities and social sciences.
Takie Sugiyama Lebra (February 6, 1930 – May 26, 2017) was a Japanese anthropologist and professor. Her “contributions to the anthropology of Japan are regarded as foundational”. [1] She was born in a rural village in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. She attended primary school in Japan, graduating from Tsuda College in Tokyo in 1951.
Biological Anthropology looks different today from the way it did even twenty years ago. Even the name is relatively new, having been 'physical anthropology' for over a century, with some practitioners still applying that term. [2] Biological anthropologists look back to the work of Charles Darwin as a major foundation for what they do today ...
Professor Izumi Shimada holding tumi knife excavated at Huaca Loro in 2006. Izumi Shimada (島田 泉) is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale (SIUC) and 2007 Outstanding Scholar [1] with research interests in the archaeology of complex pre-Hispanic cultures in the Andes, the technology and organization of craft production, mortuary analysis ...
Robert John Smith (1927–2016) was an American anthropologist who taught at Cornell University, specializing in the anthropology of Japan. In 1974, he was named Goldwin Smith Professor of Anthropology. [1] The Japanese government bestowed the Order of the Rising Sun on him in 1993.