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Hiroshi Udagawa | |
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Other names | 宇田川 洋 |
Occupation(s) | Archaeologist, Anthropologist |
Hiroshi Udagawa (宇田川 洋, Udagawa Hiroshi, born 1944) is a Japanese archaeologist and anthropologist.
He is a professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo since 1994, he is an expert in Ainu and northern/Siberian archeology. He is mainly involved in archaeological research of the Jōmon period, and is an authority on Okhotsk culture through Satsumon era. He has authored a number of books specifically about Ainu archaeology, including a 1986 book on the Ainu musical instrument, the tonkori, in collaboration with Eijiro Kanaya. [1] Although professor of the University of Tokyo, the majority of his career was spent in the North Sea Cultural Studies training facility in the town of Tokoro.