Events

The second workshop of the thematic program, "Geologic Stabilization and Human Adaptations in Northeast Asia" will be held on August 4~5, at Kawauchi Campus.

Thematic programs are hosted by the Tohoku Forum for Creativity to facilitate international collaboration between academics at Tohoku University and world-class researchers around the world. They aim to identify problems across all fields of research, and develop innovative ideas through intensive, focused discussions.

Workshop 2:

Variabilities in Prehistoric Human Cultural Adaptations in Northeast Asia:
The Initial Upper Paleolithic, the Last Glacial Maximum, and the Post-Pleistocene Adaptations

Northeast Asia is one of the coldest regions of human geographical distribution on our planet and is home to the Pole of Cold in the northern hemisphere. The expansion of modern humans into the arctic landscape during prehistoric times was largely due to cultural adaptation.

This workshop aims to shed light on the migration of prehistoric populations throughout Northeast Asia, their variabilities in subsistence and technology, and successes and failures in exploitations of natural resources.

Lectures will be given by specialists in Far Eastern Paleolithic archaeology, microscopic stone tool analysis, geological landscape, and diachronic environmental reconstructions.

Date and Time:
August 4, 2018 　10:00 - 3:30
August 5, 2018 　10:00 - 2:30

Venue:
Room 317, 3F Graduate School/ Faculty of Arts and Letters Building
Kawauchi Campus, Tohoku University (Map)