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“Archaeological Investigations into the Omuro Cairn and Earthen Mound Group, Central Highlands of Japan (5th to 7th Centuries A.D.)”

Ken’ichi Sasaki is a Professor of Archaeology at Meiji University, Tokyo. He received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University in 1995. Focusing on regional variability of elite burial mounds (kofun), his main research specialty is the process of state formation during the first half of the 1st millennium AD in Japan. Professor Sasaki’s long-term goal is to illuminate the processes of state formation that occurred in the Japanese archipelago which he believes are distinct from those of ancient Mesopotamia or China.

Lunch will be provided.

For more information, please contact Yoko Nishimura at yokonish@upenn.edu.