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Matsumoto (PhD, archaeology) completed
his MA thesis this August and continues studying in the PhD program.
This fall
and subsequent spring will be spent to fulfill the course requirements
and to
prepare for the upcoming excavation of the Sicán shaft tombs on the
northern north
coast of the
After
finishing his MA thesis this summer, he took part in the Pachacamac
Archaeological Project, directed by Dr. Izumi Shimada (SIUC). Together
with the
co-director of the project, he was in charge of the tomb excavation in
front of
the inferred most sacred temple of the site, the He is also
supposed to present a paper on his
GIS-based digital site mapping of Pachacamac at the 38th Annual
Chacmool
Archaeological Conference at the University of Calgary, Canada
(November 12,
2005). Geographic Information Systems and their applications in
archaeology and
anthropology are still fascinating him and will be one of his research
issues
for years to come. |