| Project/Area Number |
05041092
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | Field Research |
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
KATAYAMA Kazumichi Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Associate Professor, 理学部, 助教授 (70097921)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
モエカア R. クック諸島政府, 教育省, 調査官
ウォーター R. オタゴ大学, 人類学教室, 講師
HANIHARA Tunehiko Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku University Associate Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (00180919)
ISHIDA Takafumi Department of Anthropology, University of Tokyo Assistant Professor, 理学研究科, 助手 (20184533)
INTOH Michiko Faculty of International Culture Relations, Hokkaido Tokai University, Associate, 国際文化学部, 助教授 (40203418)
NAKAMURA Toshio Center for Chronological Dating, Nagoya University, Associate Professor, 年代測定資料センター, 助教授 (10135387)
TAGAYA Akira Osaka City University School of Medicine Lecturer, 医学部, 講師 (70117951)
MINAGAWA Masao Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Hokkaido University, Associate P, 地球環境科学科, 助教授 (10250507)
TAKEDA Jun Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo Senior Researcher, 主任研究員 (20045066)
SHIBATA Norio Faculty of Foreign Cultures, Tenri University Professor, 国際文化学部, 教授 (60122363)
MOEKA'A rangi Department of Education, Government of the Cook Islands, Anthropology Specialist
WALTER Richard Department of Anthropology, Otago University Lecturer
モエカア R.T. クック諸島政府, 教育省, 人類学調査官
ウォーター R.G. オタゴ大学, 人類学教室, 講師
松井 章 奈良国立文化財研究所, 主任研究員 (20157225)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1993 – 1994
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 1994)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥18,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥18,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1994: ¥9,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1993: ¥9,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,000,000)
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| Keywords | Prehistoric Polynesians / Cook Islands / Vairoronga Prehistoric Site / Human Skeletal Remains / Reconstruction of Life / Physical Characters / C14 Dating / Mangaian Language / 埋葬遺跡 / 古人骨 / 漁労活動 |
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| Research Abstract |
The major point of the present study was to carry out an extensive, multidisciplinary field research in Mangaia, the southernmost island of the Cook group, central Polynesia, and to collect basic data which are necessary for reconstructing the physical characters and life way of prehistoric Polynesian people at the initial stage of settlement in the Polynesian islands. To be more concrete, it was to excavate archaeologically the Vairoronga site on the island, to gather information on the traditional arts of fishing, plant using and artefact manufactures, and to collect folkloristic words and chants for the purpose of linguistic reconstruction of ancient life.
Archaeological excavation was carried out twice one each in 1993 and in 1994 at the Vairoronga site which has been proved provisionally to date at most 1,000 years BP by C14 dating. Through the excavation, human skeletal remains for a total of 30 individuals were collected in the burial area of the site. This collection of human sk
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eletons may be reckoned as one of the largest materials to date excavated in the Polynesia proper. In the habitual area of the site, there were excavated plenty of stone tools, bone tools, and shell artefacts such as fishhooks, harpoons and tatoo combs. Furthermore, a heap of food remains such as animal bones, fish bones and shells, and C14 dating materials were sampled there. The food remains amount to more than 10 kilograms, and the C14 materials to more than 500 samples. Those human skeletal remains, archaeological materials and C14 samples are now being analyzed and examined by the co-laborators of the present study at their laboratories in Japan. Those materials are all too large in volume to analyze in a short term, but must be very promissing in getting evidence to make a scenario on prehistoric Polynesian dispersals and adaptation starategies to small oceanic islands.
Linguistic data have been accumulated enough to make a Mangaian-English dictionary. The dictionary will become a package source to derive data to reconstruct linguistically the culture, social structure and life way of an ancient Mangaian society, and it should be very important to preserve an indigenous Polynesian language which is vanishing year by year. Less
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