Yousuke Kaifu

University of Tokyo Hospital — Japan

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

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Research Topics

Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology(48), Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies(42), Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies(20), Primate Behavior and Ecology(15), Evolution and Paleontology Studies(13)

Publications78 total

New reconstruction of DAN5 cranium (Gona, Ethiopia) supports complex emergence of Homo erectus
Nature Communications·2025Open Access
Earliest evidence of smoke-dried mummification: More than 10,000 years ago in southern China and Southeast Asia
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Traversing the Kuroshio: Paleolithic migration across one of the world’s strongest ocean currents
Science Advances·2025· 2 citedOpen Access
Paleolithic seafaring in East Asia: An experimental test of the dugout canoe hypothesis
Science Advances·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
The late Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus of the Madura Strait, first hominin fossils from submerged Sundaland
Quaternary Environments and Humans·2025· 6 citedOpen Access
A male Denisovan mandible from Pleistocene Taiwan
Science·2025· 29 cited
Tiny fossil arm bone sheds light on evolution of ancient Indonesian ‘hobbits’
2024
Early evolution of small body size in Homo floresiensis
Nature Communications·2024· 19 citedOpen Access
A new human-induced trauma in a skull in the Jomon period and reconsideration of three existing materials
Anthropological Science (Japanese Series)·2024
Moving away from “the Muddle in the Middle” toward solving the Chibanian puzzle
Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews·2023· 9 citedOpen Access
Learning to Adapt to Light
International Journal of Computer Vision·2023Open Access
Les sinus frontaux au cours de l’évolution humaine
Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d anthropologie de Paris·2023Open Access
Frontal sinuses and human evolution
Science Advances·2022· 12 citedOpen Access
Retinal Vessel Segmentation With Skeletal Prior and Contrastive Loss.
PubMed·2022· 7 cited
Islands and hominin adaptation
World Archaeology·2022Open Access
A synthetic model of Palaeolithic seafaring in the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan
World Archaeology·2022· 11 cited
Modern human teeth unearthed from below the ∼128,000-year-old level at Punung, Java: A case highlighting the problem of recent intrusion in cave sediments
Journal of Human Evolution·2022· 18 citedOpen Access
Significance of Skull IX in Asian Paleoanthropology
Berita Sedimentologi·2021Open Access
Skeletal remains of a Pleistocene modern human (Homo sapiens) from Sulawesi
PLoS ONE·2021· 16 citedOpen Access
Establishing the efficacy of reed-bundle rafts in the paleolithic colonization of the Ryukyu Islands
The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology·2021· 8 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Hisao Baba(16), Fachroel Aziz(12), Iwan Kurniawan(10), Reiko T. Kono(9), Masaki Fujita(6), Thomas Sutikna(5), Jatmiko Jatmiko(5), Daisuke Kubo(4), Gen Suwa(4), E. Wahyu Saptomo(4), Gerrit D. van den Bergh(3), Adam Brumm(3), Etty Indriati(3), Shuji Matsu’ura(3), Shinji Yamasaki(3), Rokhus Due Awe(3), Tony Djubiantono(3), María Martinón‐Torres(3), Johan Arif(3), Erick Setiyabudi(2)