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ENDO Eiko



Ph. D. (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Archaeologist
Visiting researcher, Center for obsidian and Lithic Studies, Meiji University
Assistant Professor, Premium College, Tokyo Metropolitan University1-1 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 101-0064, Japan
E-mail: ee6871@ff.em-net.ne.jp
Born 1954 in Tokyo, Japan

Education

1972-1976 Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, B.A., History.
2002-2006 Hosei University, B.A., History.
2008-2015 Graduate school, Humanities Research Institute, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Employment

2019 - present : Assistant Professor, Premium College, Tokyo Metropolitan University.

Current Research

■Study on the Beginning of Agriculture in the Japanese archipelago using the Replica Method: Especially on the Elucidation of the Diversity of Yayoi Culture in the Central Highlands, Kanto and Tohoku Regions
■Study on Agricultural Diffusion across Eurasia : Especially on the Start of Agriculture in Ukraine, which is considered to be one of the nodes of agriculture originated in West Asia and East Asia

Selected Monographs and Articles

2022 Endo, E. and Leipe, C.  The onset, dispersal and crop preferences of early agriculture in the Japanese archipelago as derived from seed impressions in pottery. Quaternary International 623: pp. 35-49.
Endo, E., Nasu, H., Haskevych, D., Gershkovych, Y., Videiko, M. and Yanevich, O.  Re-identification of plant impressions on prehistoric pottery from Ukraine. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 42: 103364
Exploring seed impressions within the fabric of pottery: Using a silicone cast method for reliable identification. In: Kirleis, W., Dal Corso, M. and Filipovic, D. (Eds)   Millet and what else? The wider context of the adoption of millet cultivation in Europe.  pp. 253-262, Sidestone Press, Leiden.
2021 Leipe,C., Endo,E., Kuramochi,S., Wagner,M.Tarasov,P. Crop cultivation of Middle Yayoi culture communities (4th century BCE–1st century CE) in the Kanto region, eastern Japan, inferred from a radiocarbon-dated archaeobotanical record. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 30: 409-421
2020 Haskevych,D., Endo,E., Nasu,H. NEW ARCHAEOBOTANICAL STUDY OF POTTERY FROM THE SUB-NEOLITHIC SITE OF BAZKIV OSTRIV ON THE SOUTHERN BUH RIVER (using Replica-SEM method). Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine 34-1: pp. 181-191. (Ukrainian with English summary) 
2019 Haskevych,D., Endo,E., Kunikita,D., Yanevich,O. New AMS dates from the Sub-Neolithic sites in the Southern Buh area (Ukraine) and problems in the Buh-Dnister Culture chronology. Documenta Praehistorica. 46: pp.216-245 
Ukraine as the crossroad for Agricultural dispersal in Eurasia. In: Syoda, S.(Ed)Afro-Eurasian archaeobotany New perspectives, new approaches. pp. 36-50, Kubapuro. (in Japanese) 
Yayoi agriculture in the Kanto region. In: Shitara,H. (Ed). The archeology of agricultural complex formation-the beginning of farming. pp. 111-125, Yuzankaku, (in Japanese) 
Fukuda, M., Kunikita, D., Endo, E., Gorshkov, M., Nasu, H., Kitano, H.Crop utilization and diet in Pol'tse culture. In: Shitara,H. (Ed). The archeology of agricultural complex formation-the beginning of farming. pp. 71-90, Yuzankaku, (in Japanese) 
2018  Seed impression analysis of Yayoi pottery excavated from the Ikego site. In: Sugiyama, C. (Ed) A multi-proxy study of food in the Yayoi period: scientific analyses at the Ikego Site. pp. 89-104, Rokuichi Shobo, (in Japanese) 
2017  Baba, S., Endo, E. Archaeobotanical investigation of domesticated cereals on Kuribayashi-type pottery in the middle Yayoi period of the central highland Japan using the Replica-SEM Method. Natural Resource, Environment, and Humans. 7:pp.1–22 (in Japanese with English summary) 
2014  The interpretation of impressions derived from seeds in pottery. Quarterly of archaeological studies, 60-4 : pp.74–85 (in Japanese with English summary) 
2011 Endo E, Takase, K. Foxtail millet (Setaria italica (L.) P. Beauv.) and broomcorn millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) of the Final Jomon period in the Ina Basin, central Japan.Quarterly of archaeological studies, 58-2 : pp.74–85 (in Japanese with English summary) 

Presentations at the International Congress and Workshop

2019 Chasing Chinese millets in Ukraine using seed impressions in pottery. International Workshop “Millet and what else? The wider context of the adoption of millet cultivation in Europe” 27 Nov 2019, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany. Oral presentation. 
Endo, E., Nasu, H., Gaskevych, D., Yanevich, A., Pashkevich, G., Videiko, M. Ukraine as the crossroad for agricultural dispersal in Eurasia. 18th Conference of International Working group for Palaeoethnobotany, Lecce, Italy, Oral presentation. 
Grikpedis, M., Endo, E. In the search of the earliest cultivated plants in Belarus: SEM analysis of grain imprints in pottery. 18th International Workinggroup for Palaeoethnobotany, Lecce, Italy, Poster presentation. 
Re-evaluation of impressions in pottery from the territories to the north of the Black Sea, and new datasets. International Seminar on Archaeology of Central Asia, Vilinuis University, Lithuania, Oral presentation. 
2018 A new dataset of cereals in Ukraine, using Replica-SEM method. International workshop : Ukraine as the crossroad for Agricultural dispersal in Eurasia, Institute of archaeology of National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, Oral presentation. 
2016  The Diversity of Agriculture Adopted in the Japanese Archipelago: Replica-SEM analysis on the Package of Cultivated Cereals. 8th World Archaeological Congress 30 August, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan, Poster presentation. (Abstract: 267-268) 
Chasing Chinese Millet using Replica-SEM Method. 17th Conferene of the international Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany. 8 July, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris, France, Poster presentation. (Abstract: 52) 
2013  Refining plant impressions using Replica-SEM method:millet cultivation in central highland Japan. 16th Conference of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany. Thesssloniki, Greece, Poster presentation. (Abstract: 52)