Northeast Asia: Stories before the Stone Age

Workshop 3: Continental Amalgamation and Stabilization of Northeast Asia: Stories before the Stone Age

I’m organizing an international workshop ‘Continental Amalgamation and Stabilization of Northeast Asia: Stories before the Stone Age’ from 21 to 22 of February 2019 in Sendai. This workshop, sponsored by the Tohoku Forum for Creativity (TFC), Organization for Research Promotion, Tohoku University, is one of four planned under the Thematic Program “Geologic Stabilization and Human Adaptations in Northeast Asia” by Hiroki Takakura, me (Tatsuki Tsujimori), Kaoru Akoshima, Yoshitaka Kanomata, Hitoshi Yamada, Hiroki Oka and Satoshi Chiba.

Specific focus in this workshop includes ’lithospheric and crustal evolution and stabilization". However, this workshop also aims to provide opportunities to link geological sciences to ecology, archeology, and socio-cultural anthropology and to systematize interdisciplinary knowledge on Northeast Asia. I’ve invited great speakers from various countries.

Below is the list of speakers.

• Gina Barnes (University of London)
• Ilona Bausch (Kokugakuin University Museum / Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts & Cultures)
• Uyanga Bold (Mongolian University of Science and Technology)
• Moonsup Cho (Seoul National University)
• Sun-Lin Chung (Academia Sinica / National Taiwan University)
• Yoshiyuki Iizuka (Academia Sinica)
• Yukio Isozaki (University of Tokyo)
• Sergey Krivonogov (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences)
• Shigenori Maruyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
• William F. McDonough (University of Maryland / Tohoku University)
• Daniel Pastor-Galán (University of Salamanca)
• Inna Safonova (Novosibirsk State University)
• Guanghai Shi (China University of Geosciences)
• Kuo-Lung Wang (Academia Sinica)
• Dapeng Zhao (Tohoku University)

Program

Day 1, February 21

Plenary Session (10:40–12:00)

Welcome address (10:30–10:40)

• Hiroki Takakura (Workshop 4 organizer, Tohoku University)
• Tatsuki Tsujimori (Workshop 3 organizer, Tohoku University)

Plenary lecture

• Workshop 3 (10:40–11:20), Shigenori Maruyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Global climate change in the past and near future: A geological perspective
• Workshop 4 (11:20–12:00), Hugh Beach (Uppsala University) Sustaining Arctic livelihoods and sustaining anthropology in the Anthropocene

Lunch🍱 12:00-13:30

Session 1 (13:30–15:30) — Amalgamation of Asia

3-min remarks by Tatsuki Tsujimori

• Daniel Pastor-Galan (University of Salamanca) — The supercontinent cycle and the growth of East Asia
• Moonsup Cho (Seoul National University) — A new tectonostratigraphic scheme of the Korean Peninsula
• Yukio Isozaki (University of Tokyo) — Nipponides vs. Altaids
• Sun-Lin Chung (Academia Sinica / National Taiwan University) — Tibet and beyond: A geochemical perspective on Asian Orogeny

Coffe Break☕️ 15:30-16:00

Session 2 (16:00–17:30) — “Second continent” beneath Asia

3-min remarks by Tatsuki Tsujimori

• Shigenori Maruyama (Tokyo Institute of Technology) — Concept of the second continent – Why important?
• Dapeng Zhao (Tohoku University) — Seismic imaging of the second continent
• William F. McDonough (University of Maryland / Tohoku University — Testing a proposed “second continent” beneath eastern China using geoneutrino measurements

Banquet🥗🍻 18:00-20:00

Day 2, February 22

Session 3 (09:30-12:00) — Crossover among geological sciences and archeology

3-min remarks by Tatsuki Tsujimori

• Guanghai Shi (China University of Geosciences) — The Myanmar jadeite jade (feicui) and introduction of the Chinese jadeite culture
• Yoshiyuki Iizuka (Academia Sinica) — Geochemical sourcing study of nephrite jade in Southeast and East Asian prehistory
• Ilona Bausch (Kokugakuin University Museum / SISJAC) — Not merely an “accessory”: the Role of jade objects in Jomon society
• Gina Barnes (University of London) — Sanukite, green tuff, and obsidian: Archaeological stones and their geological sources
• Sergey Krivonogov (Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) — The history of the Aral Sea: Implications from multi-disciplinary study

Lunch🍱 12:00-13:30

Session 4 (13:30–15:30) — COAB and PAC-type margin

3-min remarks by Tatsuki Tsujimori

• Uyanga Bold (Mongolian University of Science and Technology) — Precambrian to early Paleozoic geology of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt
• Kuo-Lung Wang (Academia Sinica) — Ancient continents among the Central Asia Orogenic Belt: Evidence from lithospheric mantle xenoliths
• Inna Safonova (Novosibirsk State University) — Tectonic erosion at Pacific-type convergent margins

Day 3, February 23

Half-day excursion in Sendai (13:00–17:00)

Guided by Dr. Sebastian Boret (Anthropologist, Tohoku University) [Guidebook PDF]

Public lecture/ 市民講演会 (14:00–16:00) 「地球生命の起源と進化：ヒトの誕生と現在から近未来の課題まで」講師：丸山茂徳

東京エレクトロンホール宮城 601会議室 (仙台市青葉区国分町3-3-7)

Venue

The workshop will be held in the Main Conference Hall of the TOKYO ELECTRON House of Creativity / 東北大学知の館, Tohoku University

2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8577 Japan

• Access from Sendai International Airport: Take Airport Access Line to ‘JR Sendai Station’. Use Subway Tōzai Line from T07 ‘Sendai’ to T06 ‘Aoba-dori Ichibancho’ Station

[Workshop flyer PDF]