Previous Excavation Teams: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2024
The Shitsukari-Abe Cave research project was started in 2001 by the late Professor Yoshito Abe (Keio University) to elucidate Paleolithic culture in northern Honshu Island through interdisciplinary research.
The project members are as follows.
2018-2022 Grants
Head Researcher
Takao Sato (Keio University): Zooarchaeology
Research Associates
Ryuichi Masuda (Hokkaido University): Molecular Phylogenetics
Minoru Yoneda (The University of Tokyo): Archaeological Science
Toshihiko Suzuki (Tohoku University): Odontology and Physical Anthropology
Junmei Sawada (Niigata University of Health and Welfare): Physical Anthropology, Zooarchaeology and Anatomy
Ryohei Sawaura (Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum): Zooarchaeology
Ai Kawamura (Toyama University): Paleontology
Cooperative Researchers
Takashi Nara (Niigata University of Health and Welfare): Physical Anthropology
Takehiko Watanabe (Keio University): Archaeology
Yoshinari Kawamura (Aichi University of Education): Paleontology
Noboru Adachi (Yamanashi University): Forensic Medicine and Molecular Anthropology
Kenichi Nishiyama (Tokushima University): Topography
(April, 2021)
2018-2022 Grants
Head Researcher
Takehiko Watanabe (Keio University): Archaeology
Research Associates
Takao Sato (Keio University): Zooarchaeology
Takashi Nara (Niigata University of Health and Welfare): Physical Anthropology
Junmei Sawada (Niigata University of Health and Welfare): Physical Anthropology, Zooarchaeology and Anatomy
Cooperative Researchers
Toshihiko Suzuki (Tohoku University): Odontology and Physical Anthropology
Noboru Adachi (Yamanashi University): Forensic Medicine and Molecular Anthropology
Minoru Yoneda (The University of Tokyo): Archaeological Science
Ryohei Sawaura (Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum): Zooarchaeology
Yu Hirasawa (Hokkaido University): Archaeology
Naoichiro Ichida (Tokyo Metropolitan Archaeological Center): Archaeology
(May, 2018)
2016-2019 Grants
Head Researcher
Takao Sato (Keio University): Zooarchaeology
Research Associates
Takashi Nara (Niigata University of Health and Welfare): Physical Anthropology
Junmei Sawada (Niigata University of Health and Welfare): Physical Anthropology, Zooarchaeology and Anatomy
Tetsuya Suzuki (Keio University): Materials Science and Crystal Chemistry
Toshihiko Suzuki (Tohoku University): Odontology and Physical Anthropology
Takehiko Watanabe (Keio University): Archaeology
Minoru Yoneda (The University of Tokyo): Archaeological Science
Cooperative Researchers
Noboru Adachi (Yamanashi University): Forensic Medicine and Molecular Anthropology
Yoshinari Kawamura (Aichi University of Education): Paleontology
Ryuichi Masuda (Hokkaido University): Molecular Phylogenetics
(April, 2017)
2013-2015 Grants
Head Researcher
Takao Sato (Keio University): Zooarchaeology
Research Associates
Yoshinari Kawamura (Aichi University of Education): Paleontology
Takashi Nara (Niigata University of Health and Welfare): Physical Anthropology
Junmei Sawada (Niigata University of Health and Welfare): Physical Anthropology, Zooarchaeology and Anatomy
Takehiko Watanabe (Keio University): Archaeology
Cooperative Researchers
Noboru Adachi (Yamanashi University): Forensic Medicine and Molecular Anthropology
Tsuyoshi Chiba (Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History): Archaeology
Taiji Kurozumi (Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba): Conchology
Akiko Matsubara (Keio University): Physical Geography
Tetsuya Suzuki (Keio University): Materials Science and Crystal Chemistry
Toshihiko Suzuki (Tohoku University): Odontology and Physical Anthropology
Minoru Yoneda (The University of Tokyo): Archaeological Science