KURONUMA, Taichi
Assistant Professor
Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa,
Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
3-11-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu-shi,
Tokyo, 183-8534, Japan
Email: taichi.kuronuma[at]aa.tufs.ac.jp
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Research interests: Archaeology, Study of historical landscape in Southeast Arabia
Studying the formation and the change of culture and society in Southeast Arabia from long-term perspectives.
As an archaeologist, I am interested in the long-term cultural transformation process in Arabia from prehistory to modern times and its relationships with the formation of modern Islamic society. In particular, I am focusing on Oman in Southeast Arabia and have researched the relationships between environmental change and site distributional patterns to examine the adaptation to the arid desert climate and relevant cultural formation, development, and change. Currently, I am participating in fieldwork in the canyon of the Al-Hajar mountains in northern Oman, and I am researching the significance of the canyon as a transportation route between the high and low lands, the chronological difference of land use, and the transformation of the landscape.
When I checked the sites from the surveys in the canyon and confirmed their distribution with the digital elevation model and drainage patterns by applying the Geographical Information System, it was possible to figure out the chronological difference between the preferred site position and the site types. For holistic and diachronic comprehension of such background, I reconstruct the formation of culture, society, and landscape with the perspectives of tangible materials and intangible things.
Recent Interests:
I am particularly interested in Digital Humanities and applying such methodology to construct a database capable of collaborating, participating and co-working with researchers of relevant disciplines such as history, cultural anthropology, linguistics, religious studies, and architectural analytics. Initially, I worked in archaeological studies and collaborated with fieldwork, museum research, and archival studies. Based on this experience, I plan to construct the unitary data resource by introducing perspectives which can observe and examine a topic from various disciplinary angles and form fundamental data resources.
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