Habeom Kim

Research Associate
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Habeom has been conducting archaeological research in East Asia focusing on migration and cultural transition processes during prehistoric periods in Korea and Japan. His research topics include long-term human-environment interaction, social complexity, demographic processes, and cultural landscape. He specializes in Geographic Information System (GIS), data analysis/visualization, and computational methods. He is particularly interested in leveraging these methods on existing archaeological dataset residing in open source and grey literature to generate new insights about the past.

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East Asia
Research Theme(s): 
Data Analysis, GIS, Computational Analysis

Marking Ownership on Ainu Objects: Museum Collections in the United States

Ikupasuy (prayer sticks)

In preparation for the upcoming 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan has sought to strengthen representation and scholarship about the Ainu, the Indigenous people of Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and the Kuril Islands. Part of these arrangements includes the construction of a new Ainu museum, which will draw on collections of Ainu material culture internationally.