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Naoyuki Oshima

Chief of Date City Institute of Funkawan culture

He was born in Shibecha-cho, Kushiro Subprefecture, Hokkaido in 1950. After graduating from the History Department in Literature Faculty of Toyo University and working at Chitose City Hall, he studied anthropology and anatomy as an assistant at Sapporo Medical University. From 1995, in Date City, he engaged in maintaining a historical site and Kitakogane Shell-mound as well as researching archaeological ruins. In addition, he set up a nation’s first official research institute, and he has been positively involved in comprehensive cultural administration including arts such as music and painting.

To understand the “mind” of Jomon people, he goes beyond borders of the traditional archaeology by studying cultural anthropology, religion, folklore and brain science and so on.

He deciphers Jomon culture from a new viewpoint and expands his research focusing on the origin of human and high spirits of Jomon culture. Moreover, he makes efforts to establish Civil Jomon Association in various locations of Hokkaido to spread and enlighten people on his research.

Naoyuki Ohshima is a chairman of Hokkaido Archaeological Association, a past director of Japanese Archaeological Association, and a councilor of Anthropological Society of Nippon.

His recent works are “対論・文明の原理を問う(Touron Bunmei no genri wo tou)” (co-author , Reitaku University Press, 2011), and “月と蛇と縄文人(Tsuki to hebi to jomonzin)” (Jurou-sha, 2014 ).