| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
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| Research Abstract |
Experimental use-wear data with replica stone tools were examined for the purpose of data base construction. The experiments were conducted by the Tohoku University Microwear Research Team since 1976. The experimental program used lithic raw materials such as shale, obsidian, chert, and flint, and amounts to 661 cases. Detailed records of replicative experiments can be referred to actual stone tools with use-wear. Data of a part of stone tools were converted to digital format. During the term of the present research, collaboration with the Society for Lithic Use-wear Studies was in progress, with the objective of establishing standardization of use-wear interpretation. We participated in the project by the Society, and the study for standardization among microwear researchers gained substantial results. The theory of the organization of technology by Lewis Binford of American Archaeology was integrated into the methodology of microscopic analysis of lithic use-wear. Functional variability within artifact types was investigated on cases of the Late Palaeolihtic of Japan, especially during the period of microblade industry. A test excavation was conducted at the site of Kamihagimori, west area, in Iwate prefecture for research of technological organization during the first half of the Late Palaeolihtic. However, it turned out that the major portion of the site was already destroyed, and no Palaeolihtic artifact was discovered.
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