Professor SANO Katsuhiro
| Campus | Kawauchi campus |
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| Laboratory |
Human Evolution
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| Tel | +81-22-795-7692 |
| sano.k＠tohoku.ac.jp |
| Career |
2010: Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte, Universität zu Köln, Dr.phil.
2010 – 2013: Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Letters, Tohoku University 2013 – 2017: Assistant Professor, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo 2017 – 2019: Associate Professor, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University 2019 – present: Professor, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University |
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| Selected Publications |
Sano, K., Beyene, Y., Katoh, S., Koyabu, D., Endo, H., Sasaki, T., Asfaw, B., and Suwa, G., 2020. A 1.4-million-year-old bone handaxe from Konso, Ethiopia, shows advanced tool technology in the early Acheulean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 117 (31): pp. 18393-18400. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2006370117.
Sano, K., Arrighi, S., Stani, C., Aureli, D., Boschin, F., Fiore, I., Spagnolo, V., Ricci, S., Crezzini, J., Boscato, P., Gala, M., Tagliacozzo, A., Birarda, G., Vaccari, L., Ronchitelli, A., Moroni, A., Benazzi, S., 2019. The earliest evidence for mechanically delivered projectile weapons in Europe. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3(10), 1409–1414. doi:10.1038/s41559-019-0990-3 Kadowaki, S., Tamura, T., Sano, K., Kurozumi, T., Maher, L.A., Wakano, J.Y., Omori, T., Kida, R., Hirose, M., Massadeh, S., Henry, D.O., 2019. Lithic technology, chronology, and marine shells from Wadi Aghar, southern Jordan, and Initial Upper Paleolithic behaviors in the southern inland Levant. Journal of Human Evolution 135, 102646. doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102646 Lee, G.-K., Sano, K., 2019. Were tanged points mechanically delivered armatures? Functional and morphometric analyses of tanged points from an Upper Paleolithic site at Jingeuneul, Korea. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, 2453–2465. doi:10.1007/s12520-018-0703-x. Morisaki, K., Sano, K., and Izuho, M., 2019. Early Upper Paleolithic blade technology in the Japanese Archipelago. Archaeological Research in Asia 17, pp. 79–97. doi:10.1016/j.ara.2018.03.001 Fujita, M., Yamasaki, S., Katagiri, C., Oshiro, I., Sano, K., Kurozumi, T., Sugawara, H., Kunikita, D., Matsuzaki, H., Kano, A., Okumura, T., Sone, T., Fujita, H., Kobayashi, S., Naruse, T., Kondo, M., Matsu’ura, S., Suwa, G., Kaifu, Y. 2016. Advanced maritime adaptation in the western Pacific coastal region extends back to 35,000–30,000 years before present. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 113 (40): pp. 11184–11189. doi:10.1073/pnas.1607857113. Sano, K. 2016. Evidence for the use of the bow-and-arrow technology by the first modern humans in the Japanese islands. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 10: pp. 130–141. Iovita, R. and Sano, K. (Eds.) 2016. Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Stone Age Weaponry. Dordrecht: Springer, 303p. For more publications:
https://researchmap.jp/read0152105?lang=en |
| Activities in Academic Societies |
Japanese Palaeolithic Research Association
The Anthropological Society of Nippon Japan Association for Quaternary Research The Japanese Archaeological Association International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences Association of Archaeological Wear & Residue Analysts |
Recent Activities
I am investigating temporal advances in technology and function of prehistoric stone tools and the relationship with human evolution. Currently, I am interested in causes why Homo sapiens migrated to Eurasia were able increase their population size, while Neanderthals and Denisovans went extinct. To better understand the issue, I try to confirm the origin and dispersal processes of the advanced projectile technology using spearthrowers and bows-and-arrows in Europe, Northeast Asian, and Japan. I am doing field works in Mongolia and in the Ryukyu islands of southern Japan.