Hirofumi Matsumura
Hirofumi Matsumura is a physical anthropologist in the School of Health Science, Sapporo Medical University, Japan. During a 30-year research career, he has worked on numerous excavations in East/Southeast Asia. His bioanthropological analysis of archaeological skeletal remains has focused on prehistoric human migration, with particular emphasis on population history and movement during the Neolithic transition in Mainland and Island Southeast Asia.
New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory »
Publication date: March 2017
‘This volume brings together a diversity of international scholars, unified in the theme of expanding scientific knowledge about humanity’s past in the Asia-Pacific region. The contents in total encompass a deep time range, concerning the origins and dispersals of anatomically modern humans, the lifestyles of Pleistocene and early Holocene Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers, the emergence of Neolithic farming communities, and the development of Iron Age societies…
Man Bac »
The Excavation of a Neolithic Site in Northern Vietnam
Edited by: Marc F. Oxenham, Hirofumi Matsumura, Nguyen Kim Dung
Publication date: May 2011
The site of Man Bac in the Red River Delta of Vietnam, one of the most meticulously excavated and carefully analysed of Southeast Asian archaeological sites in the past few years, is emerging as a key site in the region. This book carefully analyses the human and animal remains and puts them into context. The authors describe in detail the health status, the unusual demographic profile and the interestingly divergent affinities of the cemetery population, and…