Maeda Osamu

Affiliation
Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
Official title
Associate Professor
ORCID
0000-0002-0232-4856
Sex
Male
Birth date
1972-05
KAKEN ID
20647060
URL
Email
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Office
Humanities and Social Sciences Building B703
Research fields
Archaeology
Research keywords
West Asia, Near East, Neolithic, Lithics, Archaeological Theory
Research projects
Exchange and communication in prehistoric West Asia: obsidian provenancing using pXRF2022-04 -- 2023-03Maeda, Osamu日本学術振興/外国人招へい研究者(短期)670,000Yen
国際協働による西アジア先史時代における交易品の産地同定と交易ネットワークの解明2021-10 -- 2026-03前田 修日本学術振興会/科研費国際共同研究加速基金(国際共同研究強化(B))18,980,000Yen
メソポタミア先史農耕社会にみる都市文明の起源2021-04 -- 2025-03Osamu MaedaJapan Society of for the Promotion of Science/科研費基盤研究(B)16,900,000Yen
西アジア都市文明論2018-06 -- 2023-03山田重郎Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan/科研費新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型)
西アジア先史時代における生業と社会構造2018-06 -- 2023-03三宅裕Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan/科研費新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型)
西アジア新石器時代における社会の複雑化2018-04 -- 2022-03三宅裕Japan Society of for the Promotion of Science/科研費基盤研究(B)
社会変化の「速度」から解く先史時代人類史2016-04 -- 2019-03前田 修日本学術振興会/科研費挑戦的萌芽研究3,510,000Yen
分析考古学による西アジア先史時代石器利用の研究(国際共同研究)2016-03 -- 2017-03前田 修日本学術振興会/科研費国際共同研究加速基金(国際共同研究強化)5,720,000Yen
西アジア先史時代における工芸技術の研究2015-04 -- 2017-03Yutaka MIyake文部科学省/科研費新学術領域研究(研究領域提案型)900,000Yen
分析考古学による西アジア先史時代石器利用の研究2013-04 -- 2016-03前田 修Japan Society of for the Promotion of Science/科研費基盤研究(C)4,940,000Yen
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Career history
2020-03 -- (current)University of TsukubaFaculty of Humanities and Social SciencesAssociate Professor
2014-07 -- 2020-02University of TsukubaHumanities and Social SciencesLecturer
2016-02 -- 2017-01University of manchester芸術・言語・文化学部Visiting Researcher
2014-11 -- 2015-10University College LondonInstitute of ArchaeologyVisiting Researcher
2013-10 -- 2014-03University of Tsukuba人文社会科学研究科Part-time lecturer
2012-10 -- 2014-06Ancient Orient MuseumPart-time researcher
2012-12 -- 2014-06University of Tsukuba人文社会系 Part-time researcher
2012-04 -- 2014-03Cyber University世界遺産学部Visiting lecturer
2012-04 -- 2012-09Tokyo Gakugei University教育学部Part-time lecturer
2010-07 -- 2012-11University of TsukubaFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciences非常勤職員
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Academic background
2003-04 -- 2009-10University of Manchester 人文学部 芸術・歴史・文化学研究科博士課程
1999-04 -- 2003-03University of Tsukuba 歴史・人類学研究科後期博士課程
1996-04 -- 1999-03University of Tsukuba 歴史・人類学研究科前期博士課程
1992-04 -- 1998-03University of Tsukuba 第一学群 人文学類
Degree
2009-10Ph.D.University of Manchester
Licenses and qualifications
1996-03学芸員資格
Academic societies
2018-02 -- (current)European Association of Archaeologists
2014-11 -- (current)British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology
2000-04 -- (current)THE SOCIETY FOR NEAR EASTERN STUDIES IN JAPAN
1998-04 -- (current)JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR WEST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY
Articles
Books
  • Late Prehistoric Investigations at Shakar Tepe, the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Preliminary Results of the First Season (2019)
    Odaka T.; Maeda O.; Shimogama K.; Hayakawa Y.S.; Nishiaki...
    Proceedings of the 12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East/Otto Harrassowitz/pp.415-428, 2023-05
  • Tracking the Neolithic in the Near East. Lithic Perspectives on Its Origins, Development and Dispersals
    Nishiaki Yoshihiro; Maeda Osamu; Arimura Makoto
    Sidestone Press, 2022-05
  • Change and Continuity in the Lithic Industry of Hasankeyf Höyük, a Late 10th Millennium cal. BC Site on the Upper Tigris.
    Maeda Osamu; Carter Tristan; Moir Rose
    In Y. Nishiaki, O. Maeda and M. Arimura (eds.), Tracking the Neolithic in the Near East. Lithic Perspectives on Its Origins, Development and Dispersals./Sidestone Press/pp.453-468, 2022-05-24
  • Early Neolithic Chipped Stone Worlds of Bestansur and Shimshara
    Matthews Roger; Richardson Amy; Maeda Osamu
    The Early Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent: Excavations at Bestansur and Shimshara, Iraqi Kurdistan./Oxbow Books/pp.461-531, 2020-09
  • 石器の加熱処理にみる先史時代の技術運用―西アジア新石器時代の事例―
    前田 修
    世界と日本の考古学―オリーブの林と赤い大地―/六一書房/pp.19-33, 2020-03
  • Stone balls from Salat Cami Yanı and Hasankeyf Höyük, Neolithic sites on the upper Tigris.
    Maeda Osamu
    Decades in Deserts: Essays on Near Eastern Archaeology in Honor of Sumio Fujii./Rokuichi Shobo/pp.261-268, 2019-02
  • “Behind all those Stones”: Activity and Society in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent.
    Matthews R.; Richardson A.; Maeda Osamu
    Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Volume 2./Harrassowitz Verlag/pp.377-390, 2018-04
  • Experimental implications for flint heat treatment at Hasankeyf Hoyuk
    Maeda Osamu
    Raw materials exploitation in Prehistory: sourcing, processing and distribution/Cambridge Scholars Publishing/pp.601-612, 2017-09
  • The Origins of Agriculture
    Tanno Ken-ichi; Maeda Osamu
    Ancient West Asian Civilization: Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East/Springer/pp.87-98, 2016-08
  • 西アジアにおける新石器化をどう捉えるか
    前田 修
    ホモ・サピエンスと旧人3 -ヒトと文化の交代劇/六一書房, 2015
  • 初期定住集落の姿を探る: トルコ、ハッサンケイフ・ホユック遺跡2014年度の調査
    三宅 裕・前田 修・アブドゥセラーム ウルチャム
    考古学が語る古代オリエント 第22回西アジア発掘調査報告会報告集/pp.20-25, 2015-03
  • 西アジア考古学の実践と現代社会 -ヘゲモニー、ナショナリズム、アイデンティティ
    前田 修
    西アジア文明学への招待/悠書館/pp.260-271, 2014
  • Cultural Affinities and the Use of Lithics during the 8th to 7th Millenia Cal. BCE in the Northern Levant and Northern Mesopotamia
    Maeda Osamu
    Interpreting the Late Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia/Brepols/pp.267-276, 2013
  • Excavations at Salat Camii Yani 2004-2008
    Miyake Y.; Maeda Osamu; Tao M.
    The Ilisu Dam and Hep Project Excavations. Seasons 2004-2008/pp.48-70, 2013
  • 新石器時代(1)
    前田 修
    西アジア考古学講義ノート/pp.19-22, 2013
  • The State of the Stone: Terminologies, Continuities and Contexts in Near Eastern Lithics.
    E. Healey; S. Campbell; O. Maeda
    ex oriente, 2011
  • Akarçay Tepe 2002 Yılı Çalışmaları
    Akman M.; Arimura M.; Balkan-Atli N.; Cruells W.; Duru G...
    Salvage Project of the Archaeological Heritage of the Ilisu and Carchemish Dam Reservoirs Activities in 2002, Volume I./pp.157-183, 2011
  • The Social Roles of the Use of Flint and Obsidian Artefacts at Salat Cami Yanı in the Upper Tigris Valley
    Maeda Osamu
    The State of the Stone: Terminologies, Continuities and Contexts in Near Eastern Lithics/ex oriente/pp.317-326, 2011
  • 石器利用が進める新石器化の一様相
    前田 修
    農耕と都市の発生-西アジア考古学最前線-/同成社/pp.83-98, 2009
  • Meanings of Obsidian Exchange and Obsidian use at Akarçay Tepe
    Maeda Osamu
    La diversite des systemes techniques des communautes du Neolithique pre-ceramique: vers la caracterisation des comportements sociaux 5e colloque international sur les industries lithiques du Neolithique pre-ceramique/Editions APDCA/pp.245-254, 2007
  • Akarçay Tepe - 2001 Season
    Balkan-Atli N.; Duru G.; Ibanez J.; Maeda Osamu; Miyake ...
    Salvage Project of the Archaeological Heritage of the Ilısu and Carchemish Dam Reservoirs, Activities in 2001./TAÇDAM/pp.227-250, 2004
  • Prehistoric Obsidian Distribution in the Rouj Basin
    Maeda Osamu
    Archaeology of the Rouj Basin: A Regional Study of the Transition from Village to City in Northwest Syria, Vol.I./pp.167-184, 2003
  • Akarçay Tepe 2000
    Balkan-Atli N.; Borell F.; Buxo R.; Duru G.; Ibañez J.J....
    Salvage Project of the Archaeological Heritage of the Ilısu and Carchemish Dam Reservoirs. Activities in 2000./TAÇDAM/pp.287-318, 2002
  • Chipped and Ground Stone Artifacts
    Maeda Osamu
    Excavations at Tell Umm Qseir in the Middle Khabur Valley, North Syria/pp.86-107, 1998
  • Halaf Chipped Stone Industry of Tell Umm Qseir
    Maeda Osamu
    Excavations at Tell Umm Qseir in the Middle Khabur Valley, North Syria/pp.189-196, 1998
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Conference, etc.
  • Interactions between prehistoric communities and raw materials in the Near East
    Campbell S; Healey E.; Maeda O.; Arimura M.; Gasparyan B...
    International Obsidian Conference (IOC) Engaru 2023/2023-07-03--2023-07-06
  • 60 years of obsidian sourcing: Legacy data and issues of compatibility and curation
    Campbell Stuart; Healey Elizabeth; Maeda Osamu
    The 10th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East: Advancing Current Methods in Lithic Analysis/2022-10-17--2022-10-21
  • Another lithic tradition in the Pottery Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent?
    Maeda Osamu
    The 10th International Conference of the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East: Advancing Current Methods in Lithic Analysis./2022-10-17--2022-10-21
  • Obsidian in the Near East: New Challenges and Future Directions
    Campbell Stuart; Healey Elizabeth; Maeda Osamu
    International Obsidian Conference 2021/2021-04-30--2021-05-02
  • Investigating the Late Neolithic in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: Excavations at Shakar Tepe, the first season (2019)
    Odaka Takahiro; Maeda Osamu; Shimogama Kazuya; Hayakawa ...
    12th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East/2021-04-07--2021-04-09
  • 新石器化と都市化のはざま─イラク・クルディスタン、シャフリゾール平原の先史遺跡調査(2019~20年)─
    小髙敬寛; 前田 修; 下釜和也; 早川裕弌; 西秋良宏; N. A. ムハンマド; K. ラシード
    第28回西アジア発掘調査報告会/2021-03-27--2021-03-28
  • Obsidian in the Near East: new studies and future directions
    Campbell Stuart; Elizabeth Healy; Maeda Osamu
    British Association for Near Eastern Archaeology/2020-01-09--2020-01-10
  • Late Neolithic in the Shahrizor Plain, Iraqi Kurdistan: a new evidence from Shakar Tepe, the excavations in 2019
    Odaka Takahiro; Maeda Osamu; Shimogama Kazuya; Hayakawa ...
    The 9th International Conference on the PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East/2019-11-12--2019-11-16
  • Hasankeyf Höyük: preliminary results of the geochemical sourcing of obsidian from a southeastern Anatolian PPNA site
    Moir Rose; Carter Tristan; Maeda Osamu
    The 9th International Conference on the PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East/2019-11-12--2019-11-16
  • Big data! Obsidian in the Levant
    Healey Elizabeth; Campbell Stuart; Maeda Osamu
    The 9th International Conference on the PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East/2019-11-12--2019-11-16
  • Change and continuity in the lithic industry of Hasankeyf Höyük: a PPNA huntergatherer site on the upper Tigris
    Maeda Osamu
    The 9th International Conference on the PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East/2019-11-12--2019-11-16
  • 西アジアの黒曜石交易と石器文化
    前田 修
    日本西アジア考古学会第24回総会・大会/2019-06-15--2019-06-16
  • クルディスタン原新石器時代における押圧剥離石刃製作の開始について
    前田 修
    日本オリエント学会第60回大会/2018-10-13--2018-10-14
  • Obsidian in the Levant: New provenance studies.
    Maeda Osamu; Campbell Stuart; Healey Elizabeth
    The 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists “Reflecting Futures”./2018-09-05--2018-09-08
  • 石器の加熱処理にみる新石器時代の技術運用
    前田 修
    日本西アジア考古学会第23回総会・大会/2018-06-16--2018-06-17
  • Provenancing obsidian: a perspective from the Near East Majority and minority sources
    Healey Elizabeth; Campbell Stuart; Maeda Osamu
    11th International Symposium on Knappable Materials, “From toolstone to stone tools”/2017-11-7--2017-11-12
  • 西アジア先史時代の黒曜石交易
    前田 修
    第59回日本オリエント学会年次大会/2017-10-29--2017-10-29
  • 石器から見る穀物栽培の発展過程
    前田 修
    日本西アジア考古学会第22回総会・大会/2017-07-02--2017-07-03
  • The lithic assemblage from Hasankeyf Höyük: a continuity of the hunter-gatherer tradition.
    Maeda Osamu
    Sedentism, Subsistence and Societies in Neolithic Anatolia: New Insights from Hasankeyf Hoyuk/2017-03-22--2017-03-23
  • Use of sickle blades and cereal crops in the Fertile Crescent: a quantitative approach.
    Maeda Osamu; Lucas Leilani; Silva Fabio; Tanno Ken-ichi; ...
    8th Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East./2016-11-23--2016-11-27
  • Deliberately inefficient: technological practice of flint heat treatment at Neolithic Hasankeyf Höyük
    Maeda Osamu
    10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East/2016-04-25--2016-04-29
  • Flint heat treatment practice at the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A site of Hasankeyf Höyük, southeast Turkey
    Maeda Osamu
    Raw Materials Exploitation in Prehistory: sourcing, processing and distribution/2016-03-10--2016-03-12
  • Technological failure in lithic Production: a case of flint heat treatment
    Maeda Osamu
    Immersed in Lithics/2016-02-25--2016-02-26
  • 人文社会学における論文業績評価を見据えた国際共著論文執筆の意義: 考古学における事例
    前田 修
    第22回 ICRセミナー/2016-01
  • Hunter-Gatherers or Farmers? Early Neolithic lithic technology in southeast Turkey
    Maeda Osamu
    Seminar at the Institut für Orientalische und Europäische Archäologie/2015-10-28--2015-10-28
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Teaching
2023-10 -- 2023-12Prehistory and Archaeology VIII-BUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2023-12Introduction to Archaeology and FolkloreUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2023-12Basic Seminar in Prehistory and Archaeology IIBUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-07Seminar in Prehistory/Archaeology III-aUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-07Thesis Research and Preparation in Prehistory and Archaeology IAUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-08Research on thesis in Prehistory/Archaeology-aUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-07Basic Seminar in Prehistory and Archaeology IIAUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2023-12Thesis Preparation Seminar in History and Anthropology BUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-10 -- 2023-12Basic Seminar in Prehistory and Archaeology IBUniversity of Tsukuba.
2023-04 -- 2023-06Archaeology III-aUniversity of Tsukuba.
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Talks
  • 初期農耕社会と気候変動のインパクト
    前田 修
    日本西アジア考古学会公開シンポジウム「気候変動と古代西アジア-古気候から探る文化・文明の興亡-」 /2020-02-01--2020-02-01
  • 西アジアにおける農耕村落の始まりと文明の起源
    前田 修
    春日部市庄和地区市民大学/2019-10-04--2019-10-04
  • 古代西アジア1万年前の世界へ -遺跡と遺物が語る文明以前の人と社会
    前田 修
    第2回西アジア考古学トップランナーズセミナー/2017-11-26--2017-11-26
  • 西アジアにおける新石器化
    前田 修
    科研費新学術領域研究 ネアンデルタールとサピエンス交替劇の真相 A01主催研究会「石器文化からさぐる新人・旧人交替劇の真相」/2014-03-15--2014-03-15
  • 新石器時代
    前田 修
    日本西アジア考古学会 「西アジア考古学連続講義: 発掘現場からのメッセージ」/2013-11--2013-11
  • アラビアのロレンスが見た西アジア文明
    前田 修
    つくば市交流企画 研究者と市民の対話「西アジア古代文明への招待」/2011-03-12--2011-03-12
Professional activities
2020-02 -- (current)Neo-Lithicseditorial board
2019-06 -- (current)日本西アジア考古学会会計担当幹事
2019-06 -- (current)社団法人日本オリエント学会編集委員
2009-04 -- 2013-03JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR WEST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY編集担当幹事
University Management
2021-04 -- (current)西アジア文明研究センター考古学部門長
2019-04 -- (current)人文社会国際比較研究機構主席研究員
2018-04 -- (current)人文社会系研究推進室室員

(Last updated: 2023-07-04)