Biographical Sketch of Go Matsumoto
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Office Address

Department of Anthropology
Southern Illinois University
1000 Faner Dr., Rm. 3525
Carbondale IL 62901-4502 USA

Contact to: gocito@siu.edu

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(a) Professional Preparation

(i) Degrees

(ii) Current Projects

  • Study of religious beliefs and practices of the 1000-year-old Middle Sicán theocratic state, northern North Coast of Peru, Sicán Archaeological Project (directed by Dr. Izumi Shimada, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
  • AGSA-sponsored project to establish a new course "GIS Training for Anthropology" in Dept. of Anthropology, SIUC.
  • Pachacamac GIS Project, Central Coast of Peru, Pachacamac Archaeological Project (directed by Dr. Izumi Shimada, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale)
  • Examination of the availability of the Least-Cost Pathway Analysis through field experiments, FIELDWALK@KOZU, Archaeo-GIS Workshop (directed by Yasuhisa Kondo, University of Tokyo)

(b) Appointments

(i) Fieldwork Experience

  • Analysis of the ceramics recovered from the excavation in 2008 at the National Museum of Sicán, Ferreñafe, Peru, Proyecto Comida Antigua de Peru (PCAP), June - September 2011 (15 weeks)
  • Analysis of the ceramics recovered from the excavation in 2008 at the National Museum of Sicán, Ferreñafe, Peru, Sicán Archaeological Project, July - August 2010 (6 weeks)
  • Excavation of ritual contexts at the southern edge of the Grand Plaza at the site of Sicán in the middle La Leche valley, northern North Coast of Peru, Sicán Archaeological Project, July - August 2008 (5 weeks)
  • Field Experiment to examine the validity of the algorithm of GIS-based least-cost path calculation in Kozu Island, Tokyo, Japan, Archaeo-GIS Workshop, October 4 - 8th, 2007 (5 days)
  • Excavation of a dynastic cemetery at the west base of Huaca Loro Temple at the site of Sicán in the middle La Leche valley, northern North Coast of Peru, Sicán Archaeological Project, July - December 2006 (20 weeks)
  • Excavation of the funerary contexts dating from Middle Lima (ca. A.D. 300-500) to Ychsma-Inka (late 15th to early 16th century) in the Sacred Precinct (Sector I) at the site of Pachacamac (Peruvian central coast), Pachacamac Archaeological Project, July - September 2005 (7 weeks)
  • Ground-truth checking and GCP measurements for digital site mapping at the site of Pachacamac (Peruvian central coast), Pachacamac Archaeological Project, June - July 2004 (7 weeks)
  • Excavation of the 1000-year old Middle Sicán multi-craft workshop (A.D. 900-1,100) at the site of Huaca Sialúpe (Peruvian north coast), Sicán Archaeological Project, June - August 1999 (8 weeks)

(ii) Teaching Experience

  • Fall 2011 - Spring2012; Instructor; ANTH104 (Human Experience), Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL (Current).
  • Spring 2010 - Spring2011; Teaching Assistant; ANTH104 (Human Experience), Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL.
  • Fall 2008; Lecturer (Co-Teaching with Tamira Brennan); AN382 (Theory and Method in Archaeology), Department of Foreign Languages and Anthropology, Southeast Missouri State University, MO.
  • Spring 2006; Guest Lecturer; ANTH430F (Andean Archaeology), Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, IL.

(iii) Research/Graduate Assistant

  • Laboratory attendant of the Microcomputer Laboratory at the College of Education and Human Services, SIUC, January 2007 - August 2011
  • Field crew for archaeological excavation of a dynastic cemetery at the Sicán capital in the middle La Leche valley, northern North Coast of Peru, July - December 2006
  • Laboratory attendant of the Microcomputer Laboratory at the College of Education and Human Services, SIUC, August 2005 - May 2006
  • 3D digital site mapping of the Oaxaca barrio in Teotihuacan and ceramic attribute and paste characterization study, August 2004 - May 2005
  • Website production of Proyecto Arqueológico Pachacamac, December 2004 - January 2005
  • Digital site mapping of Pachacamac, Peru, January - May 2004

(iv) Grants/Awards

  • Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection (Harvard University), Junior Fellowship, 2012-2013 ($15,500)
  • National Honor Society for Anthropology Lamda Alpha, Nomination for Membership, 2012
  • The Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation, Reserach Grant, 2010 ($6,000)
  • Southern Illinois University, Travel Grant, 2009 ($125, $225, $400)
  • Southern Illinois University, Travel Grant, 2007 ($375)
  • Southern Illinois University, Travel Grant, 2006
  • Southern Illinois University, Travel Grant, 2005

(v) Committee Member

  • Committee on Public Information, Japan Society for Studies of the Ancient America (JSSAA), 2001-2002

(vi) Professional Memberships

(c) Publications

(i) M.A. Thesis

(ii) Collected Papers

  • Kondo, Yasuhisa, Go Matsumoto, Yoichi Seino, Takayuki Ako, Wataru Fukui, Makoto Sugiura, Tomokatsu Uozu, and Hiroshi Yamaguchi. 2012. A Union of Dispersed Knowledge and People: Achievements of Archaeo-GIS Workshop 2007-10. In Revive the Past: Proceedings of the 39th Conference in Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Beijing, China. 12-16 April 2011, edited by M. Zhou, I. Romanowska, Z. Wu, P. Xu, and P. Verhagen, pp. 334-342. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam.
  • Kondo, Yasuhisa, Takayuki Ako, Inne Heshiki, Go Matsumoto, Yoichi Seino, Masayoshi Takeda, and Hiroshi Yamaguchi. 2011. FIELDWALK@KOZU: A Preliminary Report of the GPS/GIS-Aided Walking Experiments for Re-Modeling Prehistoric Pathways at Kozushima Island, East Japan. In On the Road to Reconstructing the Past, edited by E. Jerem, F. Redő and V. Szeverényi. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, April 2nd - 6th, 2008, Budapest. Archaeolingua, Budapest, Hungary.
  • Matsumoto, Go. 2009. 新しいはじまりに向けて: 2008年発掘シーズンより (Towards a New Beginning: Insights from the PAS2008 Field Season). In Precursor of the Inka Empire: The Golden Capital of Sicán, edited by I. Shimada, K. Shinoda and M. Ono, pp. 397-400. Tokyo Broadcasting System Television, Tokyo, Japan.
  • Matsumoto, Go. 2009. Fill in the Gap between Theory and Practice: Making a GIS-based Digital Map of Pachacamac. In Tools of the Trade: Methods, Techniques and Innovative Approaches in Archaeology, edited by Jayne Wilkins and Kirsten Anderson, pp. 217-235, University of Calgary Press.
  • Matsumoto, Go. 2008. GIS in Archaeological Theory. Journal of Computer Archaeology 13(2):25-6
  • Shimada, Izumi, Go Matsumoto, Rafael Segura. 2006. 記憶の中の死者とその尊厳 (The Dead in Memory and Their Veneration: A Perspective from the Excavation of the Cemetery in Front of the Pachacamac Temple). Chaski 33:37-48. Genjin-sha, Tokyo.
  • Matsumoto, Go. 1994. 日本語格助詞"に"と"で"の比較考察: 日本人の空間認識とアイデンティティ (A Comparative Study of Japanese Case Particles “ni” and “de”: Spatial Recognition and Identity of Japanese People). In Semantics Vol.3, edited by Misato Tokunaga, pp.66-98. Kanda University of International Studies, Japan.

(iii) Conference Papers

(iv) Work-in-Progress Papers

  • Matsumoto, Go. in press. El culto de veneración al ancestro Sicán: Una aproximación y evidencias. In Detrás de la máscara de oro: La cultura Sicán, edited by Izumi Shimada. Editorial del Congreso del Perú.
  • Shimada, Izumi, Haagen D. Klaus, Rafael Segura, and Go Matsumoto. n.d. Living With The Dead: Conception and Treatment of the Dead on the Central and North Coast of Peru. In Between the Living and the Dead: Cross-Disciplinary and Diachronic Perspectives, Volume 1: Andes, edited by Izumi Shimada and James Fitzsimmons. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

(d) Synergistic Activities

  • 2011; Translation of an English article into Japanese for an upcoming edited volume on the Inca Empire; Inca Conceptions of Life, Death and Ancestor Worship by Peter Kaulicke.
  • 2010; An article contributed to the newsletter of Herend Owl Club, Tokyo: 中央アンデスの自然が育んだ多様な先史文化 (Diverse Prehistoric Cultures Nurtured in the Microenvironements of the Central Andes).
  • 2010; An article contributed to the newsletter of Herend Owl Club, Tokyo: ペルー北海岸のモチーカ美術におけるフクロウ (Owls in the Representational Arts of Mochica, North Coast of Peru).
  • 2009; An article contributed to Chaski 40:18-19: "お楽しみはこれからだ": 終わりなき探求の旅へ ("You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet": The Beginning of Endless Endeavor of Archaeological Research).
  • 2009; An article contributed to the ewsletter of Japan Society for Studies of the Ancient America (JSSAA): "Preliminary Results from Recent Reaserches."
  • 2009; A public lecture "Sicán Religious Belief: Insights from the PAS 2006 and 2008 Field Seasons" at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.
    http://www.tbs.co.jp/sicanten/event/event005.html http://www.kahaku.go.jp/exhibitions/ueno/special/2009/sican/...
  • 2009; Gallery talks for the exhibition "Precursor of the Inca Empire The Golden Capital of Sican" at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo.
  • 2009; A short article contributed to a leaflet for the exhibition "Precursor of the Inca Empire The Golden Capital of Sican" at the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo: "Archaeology as a Comprehensive Discipline."
  • 2007-present; Production and maintenance of the official website of the Sicán Archaeological Project.
    http://www.sican.org/
  • 2005-present; Production and maintenance of the official website of the Pachacamac Archaeological Project.
    http://www.pachacamac.net/
  • 2007; Production of the official website of the 35th Annual Midwest Conference on Andean and Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 2007.
    http://www.pachacamac.net/midwest/

(e) Collaborators and Other Affiliations

(i) Collaborators

  • Dr. Izumi Shimada, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Director of Pachacamac Archaeological Project, 2004 - 2005; Director of Sicán Archaeological project, 1999, 2006, 2008
  • Dr. Yasuhisa Kondo, University of Tokyo, Director of Archaeo-GIS Workshop Field Experiment in Kozu Island, 2007

(ii) Graduate Advisor

(iii) Thesis Advisors

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