PD Dr. Maria Shinoto - Vita
| since 2013 | Research Partner in the Project "Fundamental studies on the Nakadake Sanroku Sueki Kilns Site." Project Leader: NAKAMURA Naoko, Kagoshima University, Japan. (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) |
| since 2012 | Associate Professor (Privatdozentin) |
| since 2011 | Research Leader in the project „Quantitative research on decorated burial chambers of the mounded tomb period in Japan" at the Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, Beppu University (The Mitsubishi Foundation) |
| since 2010 | Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute |
| 2009-2012 | Habilitation in Pre- and Protohistory, University of Heidelberg |
| 2007 | Study of Korean Language at Dongguk University, Gyeongju, Korea |
| 2004-2007 | Lectures in Anthropology at Beppu University, Japan |
| since 2004 | Guest Researcher at the Institute for Cultural Heritage Research, Beppu University, Japan |
| Participation in excavations in South Japan | |
| 2003 | Ph.D. (Dr.phil) in Pre- and Protohistory at the University of Heidelberg |
| until 2003 |
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Current research
- Decorated burial chambers in Kofun period Japan: data collection and modelling for quantitative research.
- Japanese iconography of the Kofun period: a classification based on theoretical reasoning.
- Narikawa earthenware: production, classification, interpretation; integration of recent findings.
- Aesthetics of Narikawa earthenware in Kofun period Japan
- Sue ware of the Nakatake Sanroku kilns: excavation, archaeometrical analyses and problems of kiln construction.
Main interests
- Pottery: Production, classification, social aspects
- Methods of Quantitative Research
- Text data as a main research tool in the humanities (integration of Multimarkdown, XML, R, Latex, git among others)
- Written sources and archaeological findings in Japanese Protohistoric Periods (Yayoi, Kofun, Asuka, Nara periods)
