From People - School of Science, The University of Tokyo
米田 穣 (よねだ みのる)
YONEDA, Minoru
| Title | Associate Professor |
|---|---|
| Affiliation | Department of Biological Sciences (Anthropology), Graduate School of Frontier Sciences |
| Room | 502, Bioscineces GSFS Bldg., 5F |
| TEL | +81-4-7136-3683 63683 (ext.) |
Research Field
Prehistory, Chronology
Research Subject
Investigation of feeding ecology and adaptive strategy of past human populations based on bone chemistry including age determinations.
Current Research
Based on the change of feeding ecology, my research aims to clarify how people in the past adapted to the environment and how the environment influenced human evolution. Focusing on West Asia and Japan, I have been working on the change of subsistence of modern humans and Neanderthals. My research interests also include the development of new analytical methods that read various information such as dietary habit, migration record, environmental contamination, global-scale environment change that have been recorded in the chemical components of skeletons discovered from archaeological sites.
Keywords
Ancient Human Remains, Collagen, Stable Isotope, Radiocarbon, Traceelement, Dietary Reconstruction, Subsistence, Age Determination, Adaptation, Palaeoenvironment, Environmental Change, Jomon, Yayoi