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Naoko Matsumoto

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Naoko Matsumoto is a Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Okayama University.[1][2] Her research covers the areas of cognitive archaeology, gender archaeology and the Jomon period.

Education

In 1998 she received a received her D.Litt. from Kyushu University.[3]

Career

Matsumoto has excavated at several Jomon and Yayoi sites in the Kyushu and Chugoku districts of western Japan.[3] She is on the Advisory Committee for the Shanghai Archaeology Forum.[4]

Selected publications

  • Matsumoto, N. 2018. Changing relationship between the dead and the living in Japanese prehistory. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 373, 1754, 20170272
  • Matsumoto, N. 2018. Japan: The Earliest Evidence of Complex Technology for Creating Durable Coloured Goods. Open Archaeology. 4, 1, p. 206-216.
  • Matsumoto, N., Bessho, H. and Tomii, M. (eds) 2011. Coexistence and Cultural Transmission in East Asia. Left Coast Press.

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