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The Author

About the Author--Charles T. Keally
Selected Publications

Japanese Archaeology General Overview

Japanese Archaeology
Prehistoric Periods

Palaeolithic
Jomon
Yayoi
Kofun

Historic Periods

Ancient
Medieval
Early Modern (Edo, Tokugawa)
Modern

Fieldwork in Japanese Archaeology

Chronologies in Japanese Archaeology

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Jomon and Yayoi Chronologies in Aomori Prefecture (2000)
Middle Jomon Chronology for Southwest Kanto (1999)
Jomon Dates by Region and Dating Method (2006)
Prehistoric and Historic Chronology of the Okinawan/Ryukyuan Archipelago (2004)

Research Reports

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A Model for the Origins of the Japanese Paleolithic (1991)
Prehistoric and Historic Settlement Patterns in the Takase River Drainage, Northeastern Japan (1997)
Oldest Coins in Japan Found Recently (1999, 2008)
Dirt and Japan's Early Palaeolithic Hoax (2001)
An Explanation of the Large Pillars at the Sannai Maruyama Site (2001)
The Story of the Excavation of the Yamanesakue and Haketaue Sites in Hamura (2000)
Table of Pleistocene Human Fossils from Japan (2003)
The First Radiocarbon Dates for Japan (2004)
Bad Science and the Distortion of History: Radiocarbon Dating in Japanese Archaeology (2004)
"Fakery" at the Beginning, the Ending and the Middle of the Jomon Period. (on a different web site) (2004)

PDF file of Japanese translation

English-Language Bibliography for Jomon Subsistence and Diet Studies (2006)
List of Books (in Japanese) with the Main Character a Japanese Archaeologist Doing Japanese Archaeology (2009)
Academic Elitists and Elite Academics: An Essay (2006)
Foreigners, too, Want to Know about Japanese Archaeology: The Role of Electronic Publishing (in Japanese) (2007)

PDF version of the article (2007)

A Criticism of Wikipedia: Wikipedia and Japanese Archaeology (2008)

PDF version of article (on a different web site)

A Bibliography of Publications on Japanese Archaeology and Prehistory by Westerners (MSWord .doc file) (2008)

PDF version of bibliography (2008)
PDF version of additional bibliography (2010)
PDF version of accompanying lecture notes (2007)

Research Projects

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Japan's Early Palaeolithic Hoax (index page) (details below)
The New Japanese "Middle Palaeolithic" (index page) (details below)
Contact Archaeology: Japan and the West (index page)

Fieldtrip Photographs

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Research Projects

Japan's Early Palaeolithic Hoax

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Pre-exposure Papers
Summary of: Oda Shizuo, 1985, Doubts about the Stone Artifacts and Dates for the Miyagi Early Palaeolithic Sites (1985)
Oda Shizuo & Charles T. Keally, A Critical Look at the Palaeolithic and "Lower Palaeolithic" Research in Miyagi Prefecture (1986) (on a different web site)

Full Japanese translation (on a different web site)

A Model for the Origins of the Japanese Palaeolithic (1991)
Commentators' Comments on "A Model" (1991)
Presenter's Response to Commentators' Comments (1992)
A Cultural Anthropological Perspective on the Question of Early and Middle Palaeolithic Cultures in Japan (1993)
Summary of: Takeoka Toshiki, 1998, How Can We Understand about the Lower Palaeolithic? (1998)
Comments on: Shukan Shincho, March 9, 2000 -- Can the "500,000-Year-Old Site" Really Be Believed? (2000)
Early & Middle Palaeolithic Lecture Notes, Fall Semester 2000 (2000)
Japan's Changing Early Palaeolithic Controversy -- One Person's Views 1973-2000 (2000)
Post-exposure Papers
Japanese Scandals -- This Time It's Archaeology: A Preliminary Report (2000)
Dr. Peter Bleed' response: Digging out of the Scandal (2000)
How Fabrication of Two Early Palaeolithic Sites Has Damaged All of Japanese Archaeology (2000)
America's Clovis vs. Pre-Clovis Controversy and Japan's Early Palaeolithic Controversy: A Comparison of Approaches (2001)
The Early Palaeolithic Scandal -- A Few Comments on the Scientific Approach (2001)
Ethical Codes and Professional Standards (2001, 2006)
Cultural Resources Laws on the Internet (2001)
Comparisons of Home Pages of Professional Organizations (2001, 2010)
Dirt and Japan's Early Palaeolithic Hoax (2001)

Japan's New "Middle Palaeolithic"

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First Comments (September 11, 2003)
List of Proposed Middle Palaeolithic Sites (2003)
Discussions of Individual Sites

Kanedori (Iwate) (2004)

Media Comments by Leading Archaeologists and Other Scientists (2003)
List of Assumptions and Stereotypes Being Repeated (2003)
List of Related Sites on the Asiatic Continent
Problems in the News Media
Local Promotion (Mura Okoshi)
Research Methodologies and Methodological Problems
Hypotheses about the First Peopling of the Japanese Islands (2003)
Pleistocene Landbridges and the Earliest Watercraft (2005, 2010)

Contact Archaeology: Japan and the West

Index Page (2009)