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Speed of social changes in the prehistoric Near East

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K13290
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Archaeology
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

MAEDA Osamu  筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教 (20647060)

Research Collaborator CAMPBELL Stuart  
HEALEY Elizabeth  
FULLER Dorian  
ALLABY Robin  
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Keywords考古学 / 西アジア / 先史時代 / 社会変化 / 物質文化 / 人類史 / 変化速度 / 人口動態 / 農耕牧畜 / 技術革新 / 速度
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focused on the speed of social changes observed in a process of social development in the prehistoric Near East. It aimed to identify whether there are any patterns in the rate of social transformations, which can be represented in various aspects of human activities. The results demonstrated that the speed of social changes in this period was generally very slow, usually taking over a few thousand years, and is not like a low-like pattern. It suggest that social changes in the prehistoric Near East needs to be approached from the perspective that places an emphasis on the successive, often inefficient, contingent changes caused by human agency, whose decision was made through the tradition of local culture and the accumulation of social experiences.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

特定の時代へと専門が分化される傾向が強い考古学において、長期的時間軸を設定し、複数の時代を横断して変化速度を分析することで、従来の時代区分にとらわれない人類史的視点に立った大きな歴史観の構築へと繋がる一試論を示すことができた。研究対象とする時間幅を広げることで、社会変化速度の変動過程をさらに長期的な視点から解明することができ、また、同様の手法で世界中の異なる地域における社会変化速度を検討・比較することで、大局的視野に立った人類史の解明と文明論の構築へと研究を発展させることができると考える。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (27 results)

All 2019 2018 2017 2016 Other

All Int'l Joint Research (7 results) Journal Article (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 6 results,  Open Access: 3 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 2 results) Presentation (7 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 4 results) Book (5 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Int'l Joint Research] マンチェスター大学(英国)

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] バトマン博物館(トルコ)

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] マンチェスター大学/ロンドン大学UCL(英国)

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] バトマン大学(トルコ)

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] 考古学・民族学研究所(アルメニア)

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] マンチェスター大学/レディング大学/ロンドン大学(UCL)(英国)

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Int'l Joint Research] インスブルック大学(ドイツ)

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Inefficient practice of flint heat treatment at Hasankeyf Hoyuk: An anti-functional view.2019

    • Author(s)
      Maeda, O.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Lithic Studies

      Volume: 印刷中

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Obsidian provenance analyses at G?ytepe, Azerbaijan: Implications for understanding Neolithic socioeconomies in the Southern Caucasus.2019

    • Author(s)
      Nishiaki, Y., O. Maeda, T. Kannari, M. Nagai, E. Healey, F. Guliyev, and S. Campbell
    • Journal Title

      Archaeometry

      Volume: in press Issue: 4 Pages: 765-782

    • DOI

      10.1111/arcm.12457

    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Lithic analysis and the transition to the Neolithic in the Upper Tigris Valley: recent excavations at Hasankeyf Hoyuk2018

    • Author(s)
      Maeda Osamu
    • Journal Title

      Antiquity

      Volume: 92 Issue: 361 Pages: 56-73

    • DOI

      10.15184/aqy.2017.219

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Geographic mosaics and changing rates of cereal domestication2017

    • Author(s)
      Allaby Robin G.、Stevens Chris、Lucas Leilani、Maeda Osamu、Fuller Dorian Q.
    • Journal Title

      Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences

      Volume: 372 Issue: 1735 Pages: 20160429-20160429

    • DOI

      10.1098/rstb.2016.0429

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] 交易ネットワークの形成:新石器時代における黒曜石・海産貝類の流通2017

    • Author(s)
      前田 修
    • Journal Title

      季刊考古学

      Volume: 141 Pages: 41-44

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] The lithic assemblage from a Neolithic hunter-gatherer site of Hasankeyf Hoyuk in southeast Anatolia2017

    • Author(s)
      Maeda, O.
    • Journal Title

      Antiquity

      Volume: 印刷中

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] Narrowing the harvest: Increasing sickle investment and the rise of domesticated cereal agriculture in the Fertile Crescent2016

    • Author(s)
      Maeda, O., L. Lucas, F. Silva, K. Tanno and D.Q. Fuller
    • Journal Title

      Quaternary Science Reviews

      Volume: 145 Pages: 226-237

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.032

    • NAID

      120007129500

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] 「クルディスタン原新石器時代における押圧剥離石刃製作の開始について」2018

    • Author(s)
      前田 修
    • Organizer
      日本オリエント学会第60回大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Obsidian in the Levant: New provenance studies2018

    • Author(s)
      Maeda, O., S. Campbell, E. Healey,
    • Organizer
      The 24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists "Reflecting Futures"
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] The lithic assemblage from Hasankeyf Hoyuk: a continuity of the hunter-gatherer tradition2017

    • Author(s)
      Maeda, O.
    • Organizer
      Sedentism, Subsistence and Societies in Neolithic Anatolia: New Insights from Hasankeyf Hoyuk
    • Place of Presentation
      筑波大学(茨城県・つくば市)
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-23
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Provenancing obsidian: a perspective from the Near East Majority and minority sources2017

    • Author(s)
      Healey Elizabeth、Campbell Stuart、Maeda Osamu
    • Organizer
      11th International Symposium on Knappable Materials, “From toolstone to stone tools”
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 西アジア先史時代の黒曜石交易2017

    • Author(s)
      前田 修
    • Organizer
      第59回日本オリエント学会年次大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 石器から見る穀物栽培の発展過程2017

    • Author(s)
      前田 修
    • Organizer
      日本西アジア考古学会第22回総会・大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Use of sickle blades and cereal crops in the Fertile Crescent: a quantitative approach2016

    • Author(s)
      Maeda, O., L. Lucas, F. Silva and D.Q. Fuller
    • Organizer
      8th Conference on PPN Chipped and Ground Stone Industries of the Near East
    • Place of Presentation
      University of Cyprus, Nicosia
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-25
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Bladelet production by pressure-flaking at the Proto-Neolithic site of Satu Qala in Iraqi-Kurdistan. In: Near Eastern Lithic technologies on the move. Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology.2019

    • Author(s)
      Maeda, O., C. Pappi
    • Publisher
      Astrom Editions
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Stone balls from Salat Cami Yani and Hasankeyf Hoyuk, Neolithic sites on the upper Tigris. In S. Nakamura, T. Adachi & M. Abe (eds.), Decades in Deserts: Essays on Western Asian Archaeology in Honor of Sumio Fujii.2019

    • Author(s)
      Maeda, O.
    • Publisher
      Rokuichi Shobo
    • ISBN
      9784864451116
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Behind all those Stones: Activity and Society in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic of the Eastern Fertile Crescent. In B. Horejs, C. Schwall, V. Muller, M. Luciani, M. Ritter, M. Giudetti, R.B. Salisbury, F. Hoflmayer and T. Burge (eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Volume 2.2018

    • Author(s)
      Matthews, R., A. Richardson O. Maeda
    • Publisher
      Harrassowitz Verlag
    • ISBN
      9783447109970
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] Experimental implications for flint heat treatment at Hasankeyf Hoyuk. In T. Pereira X. Terradas and N. Bicho (eds), Raw materials exploitation in Prehistory: sourcing, processing and distribution.2017

    • Author(s)
      Maeda Maeda
    • Publisher
      Cambridge Scholars Publishing
    • ISBN
      9781443895972
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
  • [Book] The Origins of Agriculture. In A. Tsuneki, S. Yamada and K. Hisada (eds.) Ancient West Asian Civilization: Geoenvironment and Society in the Pre-Islamic Middle East.2016

    • Author(s)
      Tanno, K. and O. Maeda
    • Publisher
      Springer
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 西アジア文明研究センター

    • URL

      http://rcwasia.hass.tsukuba.ac.jp/

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2022-02-22  

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