Research Area	Environmental archaeology, Zooarchaeology, Palaeoanthropology
ResearchMap	https://researchmap.jp/6613530/
E-mail	hongou_hitomi (at) soken.ac.jp

Comprehensive understanding of humankind and the environment in the past, present, and future

I investigate the socio-economic and cultural changes through the history of humankind by investigating the relationship between humans and the environment, especially in the aspect of resource exploitation. I have been carrying out fieldwork in West Asia, including southeastern Turkey, one of the domestication centers, to investigate animal bone remains excavated from early Neolithic sites. Emergence of sedentary settlements about 15000 years ago and domestication of plants and animals facilitated the development of complex societies. Domestication also led to increasing manipulation of the ecosystem by humans, which eventually lead to the global environmental crisis today. As it is a coevolutionary process of humans and animals or plants, and we need both biological and sociocultural points of view to understand the process, I promote integrative cooperation of researchers of various fields, such as archaeology, genetics, environmental sciences, behavioral ecology, and anthropology.
I also have carried out archaeological projects in other parts of the world, Such as Vietnam, Mongolia, China as well as in Japan.

Selected Publications, Books etc.

• 1.Pearson, J.A., Grove, M, Özbek, M. & Hongo, H (2013) Food and social complexity at Çayönü Tepesi, southeastern Anatolia: Stable isotope evidence of differentiation in diet according to burial practice and sex in the early Neolithic. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 32:180-189.
• 2.Hongo, H., Omar, L., Nasu, H. & Fujii, S. (2013) Faunal remains from Wadi Abu Tulayha: A PPNB outpost in the steppe-desert of Southern Jordan. De Cupere B., Linseele V., Hamilton-Dyer S. (eds.), Archaeozoology of the Near East X: Proceedings of the Tenth International Symposium on the Archaeozoology of South-Western Asia and Adjacent Areas , pp. 1-25. Leuven, Peeters Publishers.
• 3.Hongo, H. & Auetrakulvit, P. (2011) Ethnozooarchaeology of the Mani (Orang Asli) of Trang Province, Southern Thailand: A preliminary result of faunal analysis at Sakai Cave. In Albarella, U. and A. Trentacoste (eds.) Ethnozooarchaeology: The Present and Past of Human-Animal Relationships, pp. 82-89. Oxbow Books.
• 4.Hongo, H., Pearson, J., Öksüz, B., Ilgezdi, G. (2009) The Process of Ungulate Domestication at Çayönü, Southeastern Turkey: A Multidisciplinary Approach focusing on Bos sp. and Cervus elaphus. Anthropozoologica 44(1):63-78.
• 5.Hongo, H. et al. (2007) Hunting or management?: Status of pigs in the Jomon Period, Japan. In Dobney, K., Rowley-Conwy, P., Albarella, U. (eds.) Pigs and Humans: 10,000 Years of Interaction, pp.109-130. Oxford: Oxbow Books.
• 6.Ervynck, A., Dobney, K., Hongo, H. & Meadow, R.H.(2001) Born Free? New Evidence for the Status of Sus scrofa at Neolithic Çayönü Tepesi (Southeastern Anatolia, Turkey). Paléorient 27(2):47-73.