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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   Proffesor

  Proffesor

• 2006.10

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  2014.03

  Sapporo Medical University   Faculty of Medicine   Associate Proffesor

  Associate Proffesor

• 2002.01

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  2006.09

  Sapporo Medical University   School of Medicine Dept Anatomy   Assistant Proffesor

  Assistant Proffesor

• 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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• Palaeoproteomic investigation of an ancient human skeleton with abnormal deposition of dental calculus.

  Yoko Uchida-Fukuhara, Shigeru Shimamura, Rikai Sawafuji, Takumi Nishiuchi, Minoru Yoneda, Hajime Ishida, Hirofumi Matsumura, Takumi Tsutaya

  Scientific reports   14 ( 1 ) 5938 - 5938  2024.03  [International journal]

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  Detailed investigation of extremely severe pathological conditions in ancient human skeletons is important as it could shed light on the breadth of potential interactions between humans and disease etiologies in the past. Here, we applied palaeoproteomics to investigate an ancient human skeletal individual with severe oral pathology, focusing our research on bacterial pathogenic factors and host defense response. This female skeleton, from the Okhotsk period (i.e., fifth to thirteenth century) of Northern Japan, poses relevant amounts of abnormal dental calculus deposition and exhibits oral dysfunction due to severe periodontal disease. A shotgun mass-spectrometry analysis identified 81 human proteins and 15 bacterial proteins from the calculus of the subject. We identified two pathogenic or bioinvasive proteins originating from two of the three "red complex" bacteria, the core species associated with severe periodontal disease in modern humans, as well as two additional bioinvasive proteins of periodontal-associated bacteria. Moreover, we discovered defense response system-associated human proteins, although their proportion was mostly similar to those reported in ancient and modern human individuals with lower calculus deposition. These results suggest that the bacterial etiology was similar and the host defense response was not necessarily more intense in ancient individuals with significant amounts of abnormal dental calculus deposition.

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• Paleoepidemiology of cribra orbitalia: Insights from early seventh millennium BP Con Co Ngua, Vietnam.

  Tianyi Wang, Clare McFadden, Hallie Buckley, Kate Domett, Anna Willis, Hiep H Trinh, Hirofumi Matsumura, Melandri Vlok, Marc F Oxenham

  American journal of biological anthropology   181 ( 2 ) 250 - 261  2023.06  [International journal]

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  OBJECTIVES: We test the hypothesis that the condition(s) leading to the development of cribra orbitalia at Con Co Ngua, an early seventh millennium sedentary foraging community in Vietnam, effectively reduced the resilience of the population to subsequent health/disease impacts. An assessment of both the implications and potential etiology of cribra orbitalia in this specific population is carried out. METHODS: The effective sample included 141 adults aged ≥15 years (53 females, 71 males, and 17 unknown sex) and 15 pre-adults aged ≤14 years. Cribra orbitalia was identified by way of cortical bone porosity of the orbital roof initiated within the diplöic space, rather than initiated subperiosteally. The approach is also robust to the misidentification of various pseudo-lesions. Resultant data was analyzed using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis. RESULTS: Median survival is higher in adults aged ≥15 years without cribra orbitalia than those with this lesion. For the pre-adult cohort, the opposite pattern is seen where median survival is higher in those with cribra orbitalia than those without. CONCLUSION: Adults displayed increased frailty and pre-adults increased resilience with respect to cribra orbitalia. The differential diagnosis for a survival analysis of adults and pre-adults with and without cribra orbitalia included iron deficiency anemia and B12/folate deficiency, parasitism (including hydatid disease and malaria) in addition to thalassemia. The most parsimonious explanation for observed results is for both thalassemia and malaria being the chief etiological agents, while appreciating these conditions interact with, and can cause, other forms such as hematinic deficiency anemias.

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• Human femur morphology and histology variation with ancestry and behaviour in an ancient sample from Vietnam.

  Meg M Walker, Marc F Oxenham, Melandri Vlok, Hirofumi Matsumura, Nguyen Thi Mai Huong, Hoang Hiep Trinh, Tran T Minh, Justyna J Miszkiewicz

  Annals of anatomy = Anatomischer Anzeiger : official organ of the Anatomische Gesellschaft   247   152054 - 152054  2023.04  [International journal]

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  BACKGROUND: There is a genetic component to the minimum effective strain (MES)-a threshold which determines when bone will adapt to function-which suggests ancestry should play a role in bone (re)modelling. Further elucidating this is difficult in living human populations because of the high global genetic admixture. We examined femora from an anthropological skeletal assemblage (Mán Bạc, Vietnam) representing distinct ancestral groups. We tested whether femur morphological and histological markers of modelling and remodelling differed between ancestries despite their similar lifestyles. METHODS: Static histomorphometry data collected from subperiosteal cortical bone of the femoral midshaft, and gross morphometric measures of femur robusticity, were studied in 17 individuals from the Mán Bạc collection dated to 1906-1523 cal. BC. This assemblage represents agricultural migrants with affinity to East Asian groups, who integrated with the local hunter-gatherers with affinity to Australo-Papuan groups during the mid-Holocene. Femur robusticity and histology data were compared between groups of 'Migrant' (n = 8), 'Admixed' (n = 4), and 'Local' (n = 5). RESULTS: Local individuals had more robust femoral diaphyses with greater secondary osteon densities, and relatively large secondary osteon and Haversian canal parameters than the migrants. The Migrant group showed gracile femoral shafts with the least dense bone made up of small secondary osteons and Haversian canals. The Admixed individuals fell between the Migrant and Local categories in terms of their femoral data. However, we also found that measures of how densely bone is remodelled per unit area were in a tight range across all three ancestries. CONCLUSIONS: Bone modelling and remodelling markers varied with ancestral histories in our sample. This suggests that there is an ancestry related predisposition to bone optimising its metabolic expenditure likely in relation to the MES. Our results stress the need to incorporate population genetic history into hierarchical bone analyses. Understanding ancestry effects on bone morphology has implications for interpreting biomechanical loading history in past and modern human populations.

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• Global patterns of the cranial form of modern human populations described by analysis of a 3D surface homologous model.

  Hirofumi Matsumura, Toyohisa Tanijiri, Makiko Kouchi, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Martin Friess, Vyacheslav Moiseyev, Chris Stringer, Kengo Miyahara

  Scientific reports   12 ( 1 ) 13826 - 13826  2022.08  [International journal]

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  This study assessed the regional diversity of the human cranial form by using geometric homologous models based on scanned data from 148 ethnic groups worldwide. This method adopted a template-fitting technique for a nonrigid transformation via the iterative closest point algorithm to generate the homologous meshes. Through the application of principal component analysis to 342 sampled homologous models, the largest variation was detected in overall size, and small South Asian crania were clearly verified. The next greatest diversity was found in the length/breadth proportion of the neurocranium, which showed the contrast between the elongated crania of Africans and the globular crania of Northeast Asians. Notably, this component was slightly correlated with the facial profile. Well-known facial features, such as the forward projection of the cheek among Northeast Asians and compaction of the European maxilla, were reconfirmed. These facial variations were highly correlated with the calvarial outline, particularly the degree of frontal and occipital inclines. An allometric pattern was detected in facial proportions in relation to overall cranial size; in larger crania, the facial profiles tend to be longer and narrower, as demonstrated among many American natives and Northeast Asians. Although our study did not include data on environmental variables that are likely to affect cranial morphology, such as climate or dietary conditions, the large datasets of homologous cranial models will be usefully available for seeking various attributions to phenotypic skeletal characteristics.

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• Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: new discovery from the Xiaoma Caves

  Hsiao-chun Hung, Hirofumi Matsumura, Lan Cuong Nguyen, Tsunehiko Hanihara, Shih-Chiang Huang, Mike T. Carson

  World Archaeology ( Informa UK Limited )  54 ( 2 ) 207 - 228  2022.03  [Refereed]

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• 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

• The origin of early Holocene hunter-gatherers at Huiyaotian and Liyupo in Guangxi, Southern China: craniometric perspective

  Matsumura H, Cuong NL, Li Z, Hung HC, Huang Y(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 155-170.)

  National Museum of Nature and Science  2017

• Early Neolithic Hunter Gatherers ‘Gaomiao’ in Hunan, China: The First of the Two-Layer Model in the Population History of East/Southeast Asia

  Matsumura H, Hung HC, Cuong NL, Zhao YF, He, Chi Z( Part： Joint author, In: Piper P, Matsumura H., and Bulbeck D (editors) New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory, terra australis 45 pp. 61-78)

  The Australian National University E-Press  2017

• Morphometric records of the Liyupo human limb bones

  Miyama E, Watanabe S, Matsumura H(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 149-154.)

  National Museum of Nature and Science  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

  J-GLOBAL

• 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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• Prize of Anthropological Society of Nippon

  2020.07   Anthropological Society of Nippon  

• Promotion Prize for a Significant Paper in the Anthropological Science

  1995  

• Anthropological Science論文奨励賞

  1995  

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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)

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  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：ホモ・サピエンスのアジア拡散モデルの再構築

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  2017.04

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  2023.03

   

  松村 博文

  Authorship： Principal investigator

• 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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  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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• Females of the Yahuai Cave in Guangxi, Xiaoma Cave in Taiwan, Bau Du in Vietnam and other Hunter-Gatherer Sites Belonging to the First Layer of AMH Dispersal

  Matsumura H, Xie G, Hung HC, Nguyen LC, Li Z, Nguyen KK, Huang SC, Hung HC

  The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 22th Congress, Chain Mai, Tha 

  Presentation date： 2022.11

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  2022.11

  　

  　

• Craniofacial width in children from Neolithic Vietnam. Relationship to thalassaemia?

  Tran MT, Oxenham M, Buckley H, Domett K, Matsumura H, Hiep TH, Vlok M

  The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 22th Congress, Chain Mai, Thai 

  Presentation date： 2022.11

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• Cranial Affinities of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Hominins Between Eastern and Western Eurasia: Implications for understanding the Origins of the First Layer in the Concept of ‘Two Layer’ Model of AMH Dispersal

  Matsumura H

  The Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 22th Congress, Chain Mai, Tha 

  Presentation date： 2022.11

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  2022.11

  　

  　

• Female Craniometrics Support ‘Two-layer Model’ of Human Dispersal in Eastern Eurasia: New Evidence from the Yahuai Cave in Guangxi, Xiaoma Cave in Taiwan, Bau Du in Vietnam and Other Hunter-gatherer Sites

  Matsumura H, Xie G, Hung HC, Nguyen LC, Hanihara T, Nguyen KK, Huang SC

  第75回日本人類学会大会 

  Presentation date： 2021.10

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  2021.10

  　

  　

• 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  [Invited]

  第85回日本皮膚科学会東部支部学術大会 

  Presentation date： 2021.09

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  2021.09

  　

  　

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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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