On January 27th (Sat) -28th (Sun), I joined in an international symposium "Afro-Eurasian Archaeobotany: New perspectives, new approaches". It was held at the Heijo Palace Site Museum, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties.
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Day 1 (27th, Jan): New trends in Afro-Eurasian archaeobotany
Shinya Shoda (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties) Welcome address and Introduction to the workshop
Amy Bogaard (University of Oxford, UK)
Keynote lecture: Reconstructing the agroecology of early cities in western Asia and Europe using crop stable isotope analysis and weed ecology
Sarah Walshaw (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
Ethnoarchaeological approaches to understanding African adoption of Asian
XinyiLiu(WashingtonUnivers
Gains and class - food globalization and culinary conservatism in the second millennium BC China
Xiaoyan Yang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
How the study of Ancient Starches is Changing Our Understanding of Neolithic Subsistence Patterns in China
Cristina Cobo Castillo (University College London, UK)
Archaeobotany in Southeast Asia: More than rice
Day 2 (28th, Jan): Sophistication of Methodologies and New Perspectives in Japanese archaeobotany
Hiroo Nasu (Okayama University of Science)
Why Jomon people did not choose to go for an agricultural society?
Yuka Sasaki (Paleo Labo Co., Ltd.)
Recent developments of Japanese archaeobotanical studies based on pottery impressions
Shuichi Noshiro (Meiji University)
Did the prehistoric use of arboreal resources in Japan change from sophisticated management in the Jomon period to intensive use in the Yayoi to Kofun periods?
Yukiko Kikuchi (Paleo Labo Co., Ltd.)
Using Experimental Archaeology to Understand Ancient Rice Farming
Ryo Ishikawa (Kobe University)
Evaluation of the domestication-related traits in rice: plant genetics meets archaeobotany
Shinya Shoda (Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties) Challenges of Biomolecular Archaeobotany in East Asia
General discussion
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This symposium was ables to be successful to show the current issues for our archaeobotanists, in terms of agricultural emergence and expandings in the world. During these two days, I got new information about global agricultural developments based on archaeobotanical research results.
After this symposium, I discussed with my archaeobotanical research fellows in and outside Japan. Job and research situations and hardness seem to be similar in the world.
Thank you a lot to our organisers and all of my fellows. To go to the next stage, I would start my new studies.
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