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Anthropological Study on Prehistoric Polynesian Dispersal

Research Project

Project/Area Number 05041092
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for international Scientific Research

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
SectionField Research
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

KATAYAMA Kazumichi  Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Associate Professor, 理学部, 助教授 (70097921)

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)
Project Period (FY) 1993 – 1994
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1994)
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)
KeywordsPrehistoric 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
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 … More 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

Report

(2 results)
  • 1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • 1993 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (32 results)

All Other

All Publications (32 results)

  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,K.: "Biological affinity between the southern Cook islanders and New Zealand Maoris." In;The Origins of the First New Zealanders,D.G. Sutton ed.,Auckland University Press. 単行本. 230-242 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,K.: "Japanese as an Asian-Pacific Population" In;Stirup,Sail and Plough,D.MacDenoon ed.,Cambridge University Press. 単行本(in press). (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,K.: "Polynesians the hypermorphic Asiatics:A scenario on prehistoric Mongoloid dispersals." In;Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals,T.Akazawa and E.Szathmary eds.,Oxford University Press. 単行本(in press). (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] NAKAMURA,T.et al.: "Radiocarbon dating study of ancient iron artifacts with acceletor mass spectrometry." Proc.of Japan Academy. 70,B. 4-9 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] ISHIDA,T.: "Human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type1 (HTLV-1) and distribution in Asian populations" Southeastern J.of Tropical Medicine. (in press). (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 印東道子: "オセアニアの島嶼環境と人間居住" Tropics. 3. 87-108 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 片山 一道: "南太平洋孤島の人類誌" 東京大学出版会(発行予定), (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 片山 一道ほか: "モンゴロイド(5) オセアニアに進出した人たち" 東京大学出版会(印刷中), (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 片山 一道ほか: "オーストロネシア人の拡散と変容" 平凡社(印刷中), (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 片山 一道ほか: "先史モンゴロイドを探る" 日本学術振興会, 412 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,K.: "Biological affinity between the southern Cook islanders and New Zealand Maoris." In ; The Origins of the First New Zealanders. one. 230-242 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,K.: "Japanese as an Asian-Pacific population." In ; Stirup, Sail and Plow (D.MacDenoon ed.). (in press). (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,K.: "Polynesians the hypermorphic Asiatics ; A scenario on prehistoric Mongoloid dispersals." In ; Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals. (in press). (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] NAKAMURA et al.: "Radiocarbon dating study of ancient iron artifacts with accerator mass spectrometry" Pro.of Japan Academy. 70B. 4-9 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] ISHIDA,T.: "Human T-lymphotropic retrovirus type I (HTLV-I) and distribution in Asian populations" Southeastern J.of Tropical Medicine. (in press). (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] INTOH,M.: "Strategies of prehistoric human settlement in island environment of Oceania" Toropics. 3. 87-108 (1944)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,K.: University of Tokyo Press (in press). Anthropography of Small Isolated Islands in the South Pacific, (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,K.(multi-authors): University of Tokyo Press (in press). Mongoloid 5 : People in Oceania, (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,K.(multi-authors): Heibon-Sha (in press). Dispersal and Transformation of Austronesian People, (1995)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,K.(multi-authors): Japan Society for Promotion of Science. In Search of Prehistoric Mongoloids, 1-412 (1994)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1994 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 片山 一道: "先史人類学と病気-民族疫学の視点" 医学のあゆみ. 165(1). 13-16 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 片山 一道: "HTLV-Iキャリアの分布から眺めた。オセアニアの歴史民族学" 医学のあゆみ. 165(1). 51-54 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 片山 一道: "オセアニア・モンゴロイドの形成-形質人類学の視点から" 学術月報. 46. 23-30 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 南川 雅男: "アイソトープ分析でみる食生態と環境適応" 学術月報. 46. 1138-1143 (1993)

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      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 松井 章: "シンガトカ砂丘遺跡" 考古学研究. 40. 80-82 (1993)

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      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] TAKEDA,Jun: "The Ikei islanders; fishing practices in an Okinawan coral ecosystems." South Pacific Study. 13. 211-234 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,Kazumichi: "The Japanese as an Asia-Pacific population. In;Stirrup,Sail and Plough" Cambridge University Press, 200 (1994)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,Kazumichi: "Polynesians the hypermorphic Asiatics--A scenario on prehistoric Mongoloid dispersals into the Pacific. In; Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals" Oxford University Press, 350 (1994)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] KATAYAMA,Kazumichi: "Biological affinity between the southern Cook islanders and New Zealand Maoris. In; Origins of the First New Zealanders" Auckland University Press, 150 (1994)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 片山 一道: "メラネシア・ポリネシア・ミクロネシアの考古学事情「最新海外考古学事情」所収" ジャパン通信社, 200 (1994)

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      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 片山 一道 ほか: "民族移動と文化編集" NTT出版, 318 (1993)

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      1993 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 片山 一道 ほか: "オセアニア(1)島嶼に生きる" 東京大学出版会, 253 (1993)

    • Related Report
      1993 Annual Research Report

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