NAKAMURA Yoshikatsu

1973-1978 Shinsyu University, B.A., Department of Geology, Faculty of Science.
1978-1981 Shinsyu University, M.A., Department of Geology, Graduate school of Science.
1997 Obtained Dr. Sc. degree from Osaka City University．
 

1982- 2014　Curator of Nojiri-ko Museum. Shinano-machi, Nagano
2014- 2017　Visiting Professor of Center for obsidian and Lithic Studies, Meiji University
2016- 2020　Director, Shimonita Museum of Natural History. Shimonita-machi, Gunma

■Identifying lithic raw material sources by Geological method.
■Stone appraisal
■Quaternary Geology
■Ceramic petrology

■Iwajuku Cultural Study Incentive Award. November 2001, from Kasagake Town, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. 

■Member of Board commissioner of Japan association for Quaternary Research, 2012-2013, 2015-2016
■Member of the special inspection committee for the Problem on the Early and Middle Palaeolithic, in the Japanese archaeological Association, 2001-2004
■Fossa Magna Museum conference commissioner, 1994-2020
■Secretary-general of “Nagano's earth” edit committee in the Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan, 2002-2020
■Member of Chigakukyoiku and Kagaku-undo edit conference in the Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan, 2018-2020
■Commissioner of Shimonita natural conduct of school, 2016-2020
 

2020	The Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan and others (eds); Tukahara, H., Nakamura, Y. edit responsibility. Guidebook of the thirty-three Pilgrimage sites of Shinano by earth science. Shinanoki Shobo. Co. Ltd., P168. Nagano. (in Japanese)
2012	Association for the Geological Collaboration in Japan and others (eds); Nakamura, Y. edit responsibility. The earth in Nagano and easy earth science small encyclopedia. Hozuki Co., Ltd., P.238. Nagano. (in Japanese)
2008	Nakamura, Y. ed. Uenohara Site (5th Excavation), Excavation of the Late Palaeolithic Site. Archaeological Reports of Shinano-machi, Shinano-machi Board of Education. P. 553. Nagano. (in Japanese with English abstract)

2020	Nakamura, Y., Iizuka, Y. Portable XRF reevaluation of a slit-earring from Shimokamata site, Shimonita, Gunma. Bulletin of Shimonita museum of Natural History. No.5. pp.19-26. (in Japanese with English abstract)
	Nakamura, Y. A method for determining the origin of obsidian in artifacts found the Mikoshiba site in Nagano Prefecture. Natural Resource Environment and Humans, No.10. pp.25-32. (in Japanese with English abstract)
	Nakamura, Y. Lithic raw material utilization of the Mikoshiba industry. Archaeology Quarterly. No.153. pp.60-63. (in Japanese)
2019	Nakamura, Y. Lithic raw material of the stone tools and stone ornaments from the Kuwano Site. Kuwano Site, Archaeological Reports of Awara city, No3. Awara city Board of Education. pp.177-191, Pl.21-30, (in Japanese)
	Nakamura, Y. Lithic raw material of Jomon priod from the Horinouti Site, Yuzawa city, Akita Prefecture. Bulletin of the Akita Archaeological Center. No.33. pp.1-22, (in Japanese)
2018	Nakamura, Y. and Kongokaya site research Group 2018 Terraces and archaeological site in Shimonita, Gunma prefecture, central Japan. Bulletin of Shimonita museum of Natural History. No.3. pp.27-32. (in Japanese with English abstract)
2017	Nakamura, Y. Study of lithic raw materials for stone tools and Geopark activities. Natural Resource Environment and Humans, No.7. pp.87-93. (in Japanese with English abstract)
	Nakamura, Y. Lithic raw materials for stone ornaments and its significance on the Shimokamata site. Bulletin of Shimonita museum of Natural History. No.2. pp.27-32. (in Japanese with English abstract)
	Nakamura, Y. Stone and human concerning in Itoigawa and Shimonita area. The Archaeological Journal. No.703. pp.21-24. (in Japanese)
2016	Nakamura, Y., Hoshina, H. The significance of the lithic raw material of an edge-ground stone axe in the Kongokaya Site. Bulletin of Shimonita museum of Natural History. No.1. pp.21-24. (in Japanese with English abstract)
	Nakamura, Y., Yoshikawa, K. Lithic raw material for large polished stone axes from the Uwahaba Site, Higashi-naruse village, Akita Prefecture. Annual Report of Akita Prefectural Museum. No.41. pp.45-56. (in Japanese)
2015	Nakamura, Y. Upper Palaeolithic Axes of the Tremolite Rock: Their Distribution in Japan. Palaeolithic Research. No.11. pp.65-78. (in Japanese with English abstract)
	Nakamura, Y. Size and shape distributions of obsidian gravels along the Wada and the Takayama-Daimon Rivers at Nagawa in Nagano, central Japan. Natural Resource Environment and Humans, No.5. pp.53-64. (in Japanese with English abstract)
2013	Nakamura, Y. Lithic raw material utilization of the polished stone axes of the Jomon period at the Sakai A site, Toyama prefecture. Bulletin of the Nojiri-ko Museum No.21. pp.9-28. (in Japanese with English abstract)
	Nakamura, Y. The feature and meaning of lithic raw material in the early upper Palaeolithic. The Archaeological Journal. No.640. pp.27-31. (in Japanese)
2011	Nakamura, Y. Identification of lithic raw material of Palaeolithic stone axe. Bulletin of the Nojiri-ko Museum No.19. pp.13-28. (in Japanese with English abstract)
2010	Nakamura, Y. Palaeolithic industry and lithic raw material utilization around Nojiri-ko sites. The Archaeological Journal. No.598. pp.3-7. (in Japanese)
2007	Nakamura, Y. A Study of Sources of Chalcedony as Lithic Raw Materials in Tochio area, Nagaoka City. Niigata Koko, Niigata Journal of Archaeology. No.18. pp.153-164. (in Japanese)

 

2016	Nakamura, Y. Lithic raw material utilization of the nephrite (tremolite rock), the talc and the serpentinite; minerals and rocks included in serpentinite bodies. The 8th meeting of the Asian Palaeolithic association, Poster. Tokyo Metropolitan University, 24–28 June, 2016.
2015	Nakamura, Y. Manufacture and transfer of stone axes: raw materials from Hokuriku region in the Upper Palaeolithic. XIX INQUA Congress, Quaternary perspectives on climate change, Natural hazards and civilization, poster［H31］Human behavioral variability in prehistoric Eurasia, Nagoya Congress Center, 26 July - 2 August, 2015.
2011	Nakamura, Y. Palaeolithic stone axes and lithic raw material utilization in Japanese Island. The 4th Annual Meeting of the Asian Palaeolithic Association, poster, National Museum of Nature and Science, 26 November - 1 December, 2011.
	Iizuka, Y., Nakamura, Y., Miyajima, H., Uchida, J. First Discovery of Palaeolithic stone axes of Nephrite Jade from Nojiri-ko Site Cluster in Japanese Island. The 4th Annual Meeting of the Asian Palaeolithic Association, poster, National Museum of Nature and Science, 26 November - 1 December, 2011.