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Niimi Lab
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An environmental archaeology lab that studies past ways of life through bones and shells from archaeological sites.
AboutAbout the lab
Reading past ways of life from bones and shells
The Environmental Archaeology Lab studies the cultures and lives of people in the past, using materials such as bones and shells excavated from archaeological sites.
Beyond archaeological methods, it also uses natural science analyses, aiming to open up new perspectives.
By analyzing animal and fish bones and shells, the lab investigates diet, hunting, and fishing, and it also studies how plant foods were used in the Jomon period.
The lab belongs to the Division of Information Philosophy in the Department of Social Informatics, Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University.
Key terms
- Environmental archaeology
- Research that combines archaeological methods with natural science analyses to study the lives of people in the past from materials found at archaeological sites
- Zooarchaeology
- A method that analyzes animal and fish bones and shells excavated from archaeological sites to study past diets and the practice of hunting and fishing
- Bone and antler tools
- Tools made from animal bone or antler. Some were used for hunting and fishing
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts broad research in environmental archaeology. In addition to archaeological methods, it uses natural science analyses, aiming to open up new perspectives.
*Illustrative imageZooarchaeology
The lab analyzes animal and fish bones and shells excavated from archaeological sites to reconstruct the diets of people in the past and to study productive activities such as hunting and fishing. It also examines tools used for hunting and fishing, such as bone and antler tools and stone tools.
*Illustrative imagePlant foods in the Jomon period
The lab studies how people in the Jomon period used plant foods, especially chestnuts and acorns. As part of this work, it conducts surveys of wild chestnuts in Aichi and Gifu Prefectures.
MembersFaculty
The members of Niimi Lab consist of faculty and students at the doctoral, master's, and undergraduate levels.
- Associate ProfessorMichiko Niimi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Excavation at Ban Non wat” Alison Kyra Carter / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Zooarchaeology: “Reuven Yeshurun in Excavation of animal bones” Guy Bar-Oz / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Plant foods in the Jomon period: “Acorns on the granite bench, October 2015 - Stacking” Laitche / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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