Osamu Maeda Editor

Yoshihiro Nishiaki received his BA and MA from the University of Tokyo, and Ph.D. from University College London. He has been a full professor of prehistoric archaeology at the University of Tokyo since 2006 and Director of the University of Tokyo Museum since 2020. His major research interest is concerned with the prehistory of West and Central Asia. Osamu Maeda received his BA and MA degrees from the University of Tsukuba and Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, UK. He has been a researcher at University of Tsukuba since 2015 and currently is an associate professor in the archaeology course and a head of the archaeology division of the Research Center for West Asian Civilization. He recently conducted international collaborative research as a member of the Manchester Obsidian Laboratory. Makoto Arimura is a Professor at Tokai University, Japan. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Archaeology from the University of Tsukuba, Japan and his PhD in Archaeology from the Université Lumière Lyon 2, France.