Rintaro Ono
Rintaro Ono is a professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan. He received his MA and Ph.D. in Area Studies (Southeast Asian Studies) at the Sophia University, Japan, in 2000 and 2006, respectively. His research is focused on maritime archaeology and anthropology, specifically human maritime adaptation process, human migration into Island Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands, human maritime exploitation history, and maritime trade history. He has been involved in many research projects in Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Palau, and Vanuatu. He has been a visiting researcher or collaborator with some national and international laboratories and universities. He is the co-editor of Prehistoric Marine Resource Use in the Indo-Pacific Regions and Pleistocene Archaeology: Migration, Technology and Adaptation.