Naoko Matsumoto

Japanese archaeologist
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IntroJapanese archaeologist
PlacesJapan
isArchaeologist
Work fieldSocial science
Gender
Female
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Biography

Naoko Matsumoto is a Professor in the Department of Archaeology at Okayama University. 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.

Career

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

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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