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• 1986

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  1988

  Graduate School, University of Tokyo   Faculty of Science   Dept of Biological Anthropology  

• 1980

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  1984

  Hokkaido University   Faculty of Science   Dept Geology  

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• 1994.03   The University of Tokyo   PhD

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• 2014.04

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  Sapporo Medical University   School of Health Science   Professor

• 2006.10

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  2014.03

  Sapporo Medical University   Faculty of Medicine   Associate Professor

• 2002.01

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  2006.09

  Sapporo Medical University   School of Medicine Dept Anatomy   Assistant Professor

• 1991.04

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  2001.12

  National Science Museum   Department of Anthropology   Curator

  Curator

• 1984.04

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  1986.03

  Kyoto University   Institute of Primatology   研修員

  研修員

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  American Asociation of Physical Anthropology

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  日本解剖学会

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  日本人類学会

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  Anthropological Society of Nippon

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  Japanese Association of Anatomists

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• Life sciences   Physical anthropology  

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• Sapporo Medical University   School of Health Sciences Department of Physical Therapy   Professor  

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• 起源

• dispersal

• 地域性

• modern human

• 形態

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• Fragmentary and dispersed: preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery

  Brianna J Muir, Trinh H Hiep, Hallie R Buckley, Kate Domett, Anna Willis, Hirofumi Matsumura, Tran T Minh, Nguyen Lan Cuong, Nghia T Huu, Marc F Oxenham

  Hunter Gatherer Research ( Liverpool University Press )    1 - 38  2024.11  [Refereed]

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  Bioarchaeological analyses of preadults provide a wealth of information about past lifeways and social structures, including aspects of personhood. However, studies of personhood and childhood in archaeological hunter-gatherer (or forager) contexts remain limited, particularly for Southeast Asia. Here, we explore aspects of personhood and the lived experiences of preadults at Con Co Ngua, an early seventh millennium BP sedentary hunter-gatherer community in northern Vietnam. We approach this analysis by way of our knowledge of skeletal representation, grave construction, body positioning, corpse manipulation (including extensive mutilation of certain individuals), and the integration of previous research into lifeways and environment. The results of our analyses provide support for a degree of differential preadult mortuary treatment, primarily manifested through body treatment and positioning. However, interpretations of these treatments are complicated by the highly fragmented and disaggregated nature of the majority of preadult burials. We contend that the comparatively more dispersed and fragmentary nature of the preadult burials at the site is caused by intentional human action at the site, rather than differential preservation or recovery biases, and such apparent biases may actually stem from deliberate human intervention. That is, socially appropriate mortuary treatments regarding constructions of personhood, social memory, or collective identity may have led to the dispersal of preadults throughout the mortuary contexts of the site. More broadly, the mortuary evidence from Con Co Ngua supports the conclusion that all of those buried at Con Co Ngua were bestowed some degree of personhood by their community, as demonstrated through the inclusion of all in the cemetery, from foetuses to elderly adults.

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• Bioclimatic and masticatory influences on human cranial diversity verified by analysis of 3D morphometric homologous models

  Hirofumi Matsumura, Martin Friess, Makiko Kouchi, Toyohisa Tanijiri, Chris Stringer, Gisselle Garcia, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Daisuke Suzuki

  Scientific Reports ( Springer Science and Business Media LLC )  14 ( 1 )  2024.11  [Refereed]

  Authorship：   Lead author  , Corresponding author

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• High prevalence of adult and nonadult scurvy in an early agricultural transition site from <scp>Mainland Southeast Asia</scp> was associated with decreased survivorship

  Melandri Vlok, Marc Oxenham, Kate Domett, Hiep Hoang Trinh, Tran Thi Minh, Mai Huong Nguyen, Hirofumi Matsumura, Hallie Buckley

  American Journal of Biological Anthropology ( Wiley )  185 ( 2 )  2024.08  [Refereed]

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  Abstract Objectives The osteological paradox recognizes that the presence of lesions is not always directly related with increased mortality. When combined with the clinical, historical, and epidemiological literature on scurvy, survivorship analysis, a form of statistical analysis to assess the relationship between the presence of diseases in the archeological record and survival, helps determine the overall burden of the disease both in terms of morbidity and mortality. This article explores the relationship between scurvy and survivorship in 26 adults from Man Bac, a Neolithic site from northern Vietnam together with prepublished evidence of scurvy in the nonadult population (n = 44). Methods Diagnosis of scurvy included differential diagnosis combined with the Snoddy, A. M. E., Buckley, H. R., Elliott, G. E., Standen, V. G., Arriaza, B. T., & Halcrow, S. E. (2018). Macroscopic features of scurvy in human skeletal remains: A literature synthesis and diagnostic guide. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 167(4), 876–895. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23699 threshold criteria and the Brickley, M. B., & Morgan, B. (2023). Assessing diagnostic certainty for scurvy and rickets in human skeletal remains. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181, 637–645 diagnostic certainty approaches. Kaplan–Meier survival curves were produced to assess the relationship between the presence of probable scurvy and age‐at‐death. Results The prevalence of probable scurvy in adults (35%) was considerably lower than reported for the nonadults (80%). Almost all lesions observed in the adults were in a mixed stage of healing. Kaplan–Meier analysis demonstrated no difference in survivorship between infants and children (<15 years) with or without probable scurvy, whereas a meaningful difference was observed for the adults and adolescents (15+ years). Conclusions The findings demonstrate that scurvy considerably decreased survivorship to older age categories. The degree of lesion remodeling, however, indicates that scurvy was not necessarily the direct cause of death but contributed to an overall disease burden that was ultimately fatal.

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• Prevalent vertebral compression fractures in the lower thoracolumbar spine of the Okhotsk culture human remains from the Moyoro shell mound site, Hokkaido in Japan.

  Daisuke Kubo, Tomohiro Komagino, Hirofumi Matsumura

  Asian Journal of Paleopathology   6   17 - 23  2024.06  [Refereed]

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• Violence-related skeletal trauma in the Epi-Jomon period: A case study from the Koboro cave site in Hokkaido, Japan

  Izumi Braddick, Daisuke Kubo, Hirofumi Matsumura, Rick J. Schulting

  Asian Journal of Paleopathology   6   1 - 5  2024.06  [Refereed]

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• In the Footsteps of Our Ancestors : Following Homo Sapiens into Asia and Oceania

  Hung HC, Chao CY, Matsumura H., Carson MT( Part： Contributor, Early Peopling in and around Taiwan: Pleistocene through Middle Holocene Groups before the Austronesian Era)

  Routledge  2024.11 ISBN: 9781032547800

• Seeking the koko’ ta’ay Investigating the Origins of Little People Myths in Taiwan and Beyond

  Hung HC, Matsumura H, Carson MT( Part： Joint author, Tracing Negritos and Their Paths in Ancient Taiwan)

  Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV  2024.07 ISBN: 9789004708341

• The Oxford Handbook of Early Southeast Asia

  Oxenham MF, Willis A, Cuong NL, Matsumura H( Part： Contributor, HUNTER-GATHERER MORTUARY VARIABILITY IN VIETNAM)

  Oxford University Press  2022 ISBN: 9780199355358

• Morphometric records of the Liyupo human skulls

  Matsumura H, Cuong NL(In: Matsumura H, Hung HC, Li Z, and Shinoda K. editors. Bio-Anthropological Studies of Early Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Sites at Huiyaotian and Liyupo in Guangxi, China. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs No. 47. Tokyo. p 143-144.)

  National Museum of Nature and Science  2017

• The Biological History of Southeast Asian Populations from Late Pleistocene and Holocene Cemetery Data

  Matsumurta H, Oxenham M, Simanjuntak T, Yamagata M(In: Bellwood P editor. First Islanders: Prehistory and Human Migration in Island Southeast Asia pp.98-106.)

  New York Willey  2017

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• ホモ・サピエンスのユーラシアへの拡散とアジア人の起源

  松村博文

  日本皮膚科学会雑誌   132 ( 1 )  2022

  J-GLOBAL

• 颅骨测量数据揭示欧亚大陆东部史前人群扩散的" 二层" 模式

  松村博文, 洪晓纯, Charles Higham, 张弛, 山形真理子, Lan Cuong Nguyen, 李珍, 范雪春, Truman Simanjuntak, Adhi Agus Oktaviana, 何嘉宁, 陈仲玉, 潘, 建国, 贺刚, 孙国平, 黄渭金, 李新伟, 魏兴涛, Kate Dome, Si n Halcrow

  南方文物(Nan Fang Wen Wu) China Academic Journal Electronic Publishing Hou   124   226 - 241  2020.03

  Authorship：   Lead author

  Article, review, commentary, editorial, etc. (scientific journal)  

• 相同モデルによる日本人肩甲骨の多様性の解明

  時田諒, 谷尻豊寿, 佐藤尚輝, 戸田創, 松村博文

  日本基礎理学療法学会学術大会プログラム・抄録集(Web)   24th  2019

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• Letter to the Editor: Ban Non Wat As a Test of the Two-Layer Hypothesis

  Marc F. Oxenham, H. Matsumura

  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ( WILEY-BLACKWELL )  159 ( 2 ) 355 - 357  2016.02

  Rapid communication, short report, research note, etc. (scientific journal)  

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• Sub-arctic Hokkaido: trends in oral and physiological health from the Jornon through Okhotsk periods.

  MF Oxenham, H Matsumura

  AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ( WILEY-LISS )    143 - 143  2006

  Research paper, summary (international conference)  

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Awards 【 display / non-display 】

• Prize of Anthropological Society of Nippon

  2020.07   Anthropological Society of Nippon  

• Promotion Prize for a Significant Paper in the Anthropological Science

  1995   Anthropological Society of Nippon  

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• Reconstruction of agricultural driven migration of anatomically modern humans using by analysis of 3D cranial homologous models

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

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  2022.04

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  2027.03

   

  松村 博文

• ４万年のアジア人類史から読み解く「ヒト多様性のパラドックス」

  基盤研究(A)

  Project Year :

  2022.04

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  2027.03

   

  海部 陽介, 松村 博文, 坂上 和弘, 大橋 順, 木村 亮介, 神澤 秀明, 山内 太郎, 若林 斉, 西村 貴孝

• Out of Africa: reconstruction of dispersal model of Homo sapiens into Asia.

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

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  2016.04

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  2021.03

   

  Matsumura Hirofumi

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  This study emphasizes a "two-layer model” for eastern Eurasian anatomically modern human (AMH), based on cranial morphometric and genome data including findings from ancient archaeological contexts. Results suggest that an initial “first layer” of AMH had related closely to ancestral Andaman, Australian, Papuan and Jomon groups who likely entered this region via the Southeast Asian landmass. A later “second layer” shared strong cranial affinities with Siberians, implying a Northeast Asian source, in central China and then followed by expansions of descendant groups into Southeast Asia after Neolithic period. These two populations shared limited initial exchange, and the second layer grew at a faster rate and in greater numbers, linked with contexts of farming that may have supported increased population densities. Clear dichotomization between the two layers implies a temporally deep divergence of distinct migration routes for AMH through both southern and northern Eurasia.

• Excavation of prehistoric huntergatherer sites in China, to shed light on population history of eastern Eurasia.

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

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  2013

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  2017

   

  Matsumura Hirofumi

  Authorship： Principal investigator

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  Current Eastern Eurasia have been widely occupied by Asians morphologically adapted cold climate during last glacial stage, who had hypothetically dispersed from East to Southeast Asia along with agricultural society including plant and animal domestication since Neolithic period onward. Pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherers in Yongjiang River Region, Guangxi in Southern China uniquely produced seated squatting burials, at the Huiyaotien Site and the Liyupo Site, which dated approximately 7,000 - 9,000 years BP. These skeletal morphology, speciously in cranial forms, exhibits characteristic quite distinctive from current East Asians. Cranial metric analysis demonstarted their close affinities to current Australo-Papuans and early Holocene Hoabinhian foragers in mainland Southeast Asia. These early settlers in China, as well as Neolithic Jomonese in Japan, are key population to reconstruct so-called ‘Two Layer’ model in addressing population history of Eastern Eurasia.

• Construction and development the collaboration model between archaeologist and anthropologist by studying the human skeletons excavated from Hobi shell mound

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

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  2013

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  YAMADA Yasuhiro, SHITARA HIROMI, SHIGEHARA NOBUO, YAMAZAKI TAKESHI, YAMAMOTO NAOTO, OOTA HIROKI, YONEDA MINORU, IGARASHI YURIKO, TANIHATA MIHO, MATUMURA HIROFUMI, KONDO OSAMU, MIZUSIMA SOICHIRO, SAKAMOTO MINORU

  Authorship： Collaborating Investigator(s) (not designated on Grant-in-Aid)

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  Archaeologists and anthropologists collaborated to study Hobi shellmounds and human skeletons excavated from this site. As the result, we found and excavated very rare burial called BANJOU-SHUKOTU.This is the secondary burial practice, which is consisted by human long bones, as femur or humerus, putting them square, and have been found only less than ten cases.We analyzed this unique burial and many archaeological and anthropological data such as human skeletal data, isotope data, mtDNA data, pathological data, and so on. Through this study, we could make the effective study model of collaboration between archaeology and anthropology.

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• オホーツク文化人骨における脊椎圧迫骨折の予備的研究

  久保大輔, 駒木野智寛, 松村博文

  第８回古病理学会 

  Presentation date： 2023.12

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  2023.12

  　

  　

• AIによる深層学習を使った世界7地域の現代人頭骨の帰属判定の試み

  谷尻豊寿, 松村博文

  第76回日本人類学会大会 

  Presentation date： 2023.10

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  2023.10

  　

  　

• モヨロ貝塚出土オホーツク人骨における第11・12胸椎及び腰椎での圧迫骨折の疫学調査

  久保大輔, 駒木野智寛, 松村博文

  第76回日本人類学会大会 

  Presentation date： 2023.10

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• Reconstruction of the oral environment of ancient Okhotsk people using palaeoproteomic analysis of dental calculus.

  Uchida-Fukuhara Y, Shimamura S, Sawafuji R, Nishiuchi T, Yoneda M, Ishida H, Matsumura H, and Tsutaya T.

  10th International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology 

  Presentation date： 2023.09

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  2023.09

  　

  　

• Hard working pre-Neolithic, pottery-using people from Man Bac, Vietnam.

  Pearson O, Matsumura H, Oxenham M, Dung NK, Hiep TH, Cuong NL

  The 92th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists 

  Presentation date： 2023.04

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  2023.04

  　

  　

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• 人類学  

  札幌医科大学,東京大学,早稲田大学,日本大学,札幌学院大学,國學院大學  

• 解剖学  

  札幌医科大学,日本工学院専門学校,北海道柔道整復師専門学校,札幌医療リハビリ専門学校,北海道リハビリテーション大学校  

• 解剖学実習  

  札幌医科大学  

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• 2021.03

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    Editor chief of Anthropological Science(Japanese Series

• 2020.10

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    監事

• 2013.04

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  2020.03

    国史跡カリンバ遺跡整備基本計画策定委員

• 2006.04

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  2014.03

    Anthropological Science論文奨励賞選考委員

• 2002.04

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    評議委員

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