SASAKI　Yuka

1997–1999 Showa Women’s University, M.A., Arts.
1999–2001 Showa Women’s University, D.C., Arts.
2012 Obtained degree of Dr. Env. from Tokyo University.

2019 – present, Visiting Researcher, Center for Obsidian and Lithic Studies, Meiji University
2020 - 2021, Project Researcher, The University Museum, The University of Tokyo
2021－present,  Associate Professor, Institute for the Study of Ancient Civilizations and Cultural Resources Kanazawa university

■Study of prehistoric use of plant resources.
■Prehistoric technique of basketry and basket materials in Japan.
■Plant domestication in prehistoric Japan.

■2007 Fifth Incentive Award, the Japanese Association of Historical Botany
■2014 Youth Presentation Award, The Japan Association for Quaternary Research (JAQUA)

■Council member of the Japanese Association of Historical Botany, 2017–present.
■Council member of the Japanese Socieｔy for Scientific Studies on Cultural Properties, 2018–present.

2022	Юка Сасаки, Сауле Жангельдыевна Рахимжанова, Ақан Оңғар, Архат Мирхатович Каирмагамбетов, Эйко Эндо, Паула Доумани Дюпюй, МадинаМакулбекова, Роберт Шпенглер, Шинья Шода Отпечатки проса на керамике раннего железного века из кургана Тортоба в Западном Казахстане. Археология Казахстана.4 (18), 116-132.
2021	Noshiro S., Sasaki Y., Murakami Y. Importance of Quercus gilva (イチイガシ) for the prehistoric periods in western Japan．Japanese Journal of Archaeology 8-2, 33-156.
2019	Kazuki Morisaki, Noriyoshi Oda, Dai Kunikita, Yuka Sasaki, Yasuko Kuronuma, Akira Iwase, Takeshi Yamazaki, Naoichiro Ichida, Hiroyuki Sato Sedentism, pottery and inland fishing in Late Glacial Japan: a reassessment of the Maedakochi site. Antiquity, 93-372, 1442-1459.
	Noshiro, S., Sasaki, Y., Kobayashi, K., Suzuki, M., Nishida, I. Material selection and weaving techniques for the oldest basketry in Japan found at the Higashimyou site, Saga Prefecture. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 23: 12–24.
2018	Sasaki, Y., Noshiro, S. Did a cooling event in the middle to late Jomon periods induced change in the use of plant resources in Japan? Quaternary International 471: 369–384.
2016	Noshiro, S., Kudo, Y., Sasaki, Y. Emergence of prehistoric management of plant resources during the incipient to initial Jomon periods in Japan. Quaternary International 426: 175–186.
	Noshiro, S., Sasaki, Y. Pre-agricultural management of plant resources during the Jomon period in Japan—A sophisticated subsistence system on plant resources. Journal of Archaeological Science 42: 93–106.
2011	Noshiro, S., Sasaki, Y. Identification of Japanese species of evergreen Quercus and Lithocarpus (Fagaceae). IAWA Journal 32: 383–393.
	Lee, Gyoung-Ah, G. W. Crawford, Li Liu, Xingcan Chen, Yuka Sasaki, Xuexiang Chen. Archaeological soybean (Glycine max) in East Asia: Does size matter? PLos One, 6(11), e26720
2009	Noshiro, S., Sasaki, Y., Suzuki, M. How natural are natural woods from wetland sites? – a case study at two sites of the Jomon period in central Japan. Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 1597–1607.
2007	Noshiro, S., Suzuki, M. & Sasaki, Y. Importance of Rhus verniciflua Stokes (lacquer tree) in prehistoric periods in Japan, deduced from identification of its fossil woods. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany 16: 405–411.

2023	Eiko Endo, Yuka Sasaki. Seed Impressions in Ceramics. Novel SEM Approaches for Archaeological Artifact Analysis. 16 Mar. 2023, Nazarbayev Umiversity, Kazakhstan.
	Paula Dupuy, Yuka Sasaki. Textile Impressions in Ceramics. Novel SEM Approaches for Archaeological Artifact Analysis. 16 Mar. 2023, Nazarbayev Umiversity, Kazakhstan.
2022	Yuka Sasaki, Hana Yamamoto. Correspondence between carbonized seeds and seed impressions on pottery. SEAA9.
	Shuichi Noshiro, Yuka Sasaki, Kazutaka Kobayashi. What do pottery impressions other than seeds, fruits or insects tell us? SEAA9.
	Yuka Sasaki, Mitsuo Suzuki, Kazutaka Kobayashi, Shuichi Noshiro, Mayumi Ajimoto. Plant use in the early Jomon period seen in the materials and techniques of woven baskets excavated from the Torihama shell mound in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. IWGP 2020.
	Shuichi Noshiro, Yuka Sasaki, Kazutaka Kobayashi, Mitsuo Suzuki. Use of rootwood as weaving materials of the Jomon period in Japan. IWGP 2020.
2021	Domestication in the genus Perilla during the Jomon period seen from a large number of their seed impressions in pottery. International Online Seminar : Pottery Impression and Archaeobotany.  Online, Oral presentation.
2019	Investigation of pottery impressions by the replica method. Agenda of Archaeological Workshop. 9-20 Nov. 2019, National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
2018	Use of lacquer trees (Toxicodendron vernicifluum) for lacquer collection and lowland construction during the Jomon Period in Japan. Asian Lacquer Craft Exchange Exhibition.
	Recent developments of Japanese archaeobotanical studies based on pottery impressions. International Symposium: Afro-Eurasian Archaeobotany: New perspectives, new approaches. Abstracts 18–19.
2017	Feasting in the early to middle Jomon period deduced from seed impressions on pottery. SAA 82nd Annual meeting.
2016	Sasaki, Y., Noshiro, S. Regional differences in the use and management of plant resources during the Jomon period in Japan. The Eighth World Archaeological Congress, abstracts, 310.
	Noshiro, S., Kudo, Y., Sasaki, Y. Emergence of prehistoric plant resources management during the incipient to initial Jomon periods in Japan. The Eighth World Archaeological Congress, abstracts, 266.
	Sasaki, Y., Yoneda, K., Kobayashi, K., Noshiro, N., Ahn, J., Ajimoto M. Emergence of prehistoric management of plant resources during the incipient to initial Jomon periods in Japan. The Eighth World Archaeological Congress, abstracts
	Noshiro, S，Sasaki, Y. Management of plant resources in the Jomon period in Japan revealed from lowland excavations. The Eighth World Archaeological Congress, abstracts, 298.
	Traces of human use deduced from plant remains of the Jomon period. Japanese archaeobotany symposium
2015	Oami, S., Hirahara, N., Sasaki Y. Plant use deduced from pottery impressions of the Jomon period in the Kanto district, central Japan. XIX INQUA Nagoya, H12-P02
	Hitoki, E., Hattori, S., Okimatsu, N. Kudo, Y., Noshiro, S., Sasaki, Y., Nakamura, T. The chronology of the Kaminari-shita site during the initial Jomon period in the inner Tokyo bay, Japan. XIX INQUA Nagoya, T00538.
	Kudo, Y., Yoshikawa, J., Sasaki, Y., Ajimoto, M., Amitani, K., Noshiro, S. Absolute dates for human activities at the Torihama Shell Mound, Fukui, Japan. XIX INQUA Nagoya, T00629.
	Sasaki, Y., Kobayashi, K., Noshiro, S., Suzuki, M. Regional difference in the technique and material selection for weaved products during the Jomon period in Japan. XIX INQUA Nagoya, T01313.
	Kobayashi, K., Suzuki, M., Sasaki, Y., Noshiro, S. Prehistoric plant materials for various types of weaving in Japan. XIX INQUA Nagoya, T02391.
2014	Management of forest resources during the Jomon period in Japan dedused from Excavated Plant remains. In: Multidisciplinary Approach to the Use of Plant Resources in East Asian Prehistory, Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium of the National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage of Korea, NRICH (ed.), 39-71
2006	Sasaki, Y., Noshiro, S. Usege of Rhus verniciflua trees for lacquer collection and lowland construction during the Jomon Period in Japan. WAC Inter-Congress Osaka