時間学研究所 兼務所員
山口大学埋蔵文化財資料館 助教

PROFILE
1972年生まれ。
立命館大学大学院文学研究科博士課程前期課程（史学専攻日本史専修）文学修士
1996年、人文学部助手（埋蔵文化財資料館勤務）として山口大学に赴任。2020年から現職。

RESEARCH
日本考古学を専攻し、弥生時代の時間軸である弥生土器の編年や集落論などを研究しています。近年、弥生時代の年代観は大きく変化しており、特に従来よりも大幅に年代が長くなった弥生時代前～中期の社会をどう捉えるべきかという問題に関心があります。

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Naohiko Tabata is Assistant Professor of Archaeological Museum, Yamaguchi University. Asst. Prof. Tabata was educated at the Master’s Program of the Graduate School of Letters, University of Ritsumeikan, and has been working at Yamaguchi University since when he was appointed in Archaeological Museum at 1996. He is specialized in Japanese archaeology, and studies the chronology of Yayoi Pottery, which forms the time axis of the Yayoi period, and settlement theory. In recent years, the chronology of the Yayoi period has changed significantly, and he is particularly interested in the question of how to view early- to middle-Yayoi period societies, which was much longer in time than before.