| Budget Amount *help |
¥23,270,000 (Direct Cost: ¥17,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,370,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥5,070,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,170,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥6,110,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,410,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Manufacturing technology in prehistoric southwest Asia made great advances in the period around the transition to the Neolithic. Up to that time, various artefacts had been produced by altering the shapes of raw materials through the application of physical force; as represented by stone and bone tools. However, just before the Neolithic period, a novel technology emerged that took advantage of chemical changes that were caused by the heating of raw materials. It is currently known that lime plaster was the earliest product of this new technology and that it was followed by gypsum plaster, ceramics and copper metallurgy. This innovative technology, often called pyrotechnology, become the principal manufacturing technology in the periods that followed, being extended to gold, silver and iron metallurgies and glassworks. Our research focuses on prehistoric craftsmanship, with emphasis on pyrotechnology.
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