Human impact on vegetation change at the beginning of agriculture

• Project/Area Number: 23682009
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Yamaguchi University
• Principal Investigator: TANNO Ken-ichi 山口大学, 農学部, 助教 (10419864)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥29,334,766 (Direct Cost: ¥22,565,205、Indirect Cost: ¥6,769,561); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,504,766 (Direct Cost: ¥3,465,205、Indirect Cost: ¥1,039,561); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥8,450,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,950,000); Fiscal Year 2011: ¥12,870,000 (Direct Cost: ¥9,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,970,000)
• Keywords: 西アジア / 植物 / 考古学 / 農耕 / 環境 / 考古植物 / 先史学 / 植物同定 / 古環境 / 古環境復元 / 炭化物 / 農耕起源

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Botanical identification for archaeological plant remains was done for several sites before and after the beginning of agriculture in West Asia. Dederiyeh site (Northwest Syria, Natufian) is a pre-agricultural site with rare finding of burnt houses and unveiled vegetation and subsistence before the impacts by agricultural human activities. Identifications of plants from initial and proto-agicultural sites over West Asia revealed changes of plant use, vegetation and crop evolutions due to agriculture, reviews of them were published.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Archeobotanical studies at and around Qalat Said Ahmadan (2015)
  • Author(s): Ken-ichi Tanno, Kanenori Takata and Taihachi Kawahara
  • Journal Title: AL-RAFIDAN Volume: 36 Pages: 59-63
• [Presentation] 農耕起源の解明～ハサンケイフ・ホユック遺跡で農耕は始まっていたのか (2015)
  • Author(s): 山﨑樹里，丹野研一，三宅裕，前田修
  • Organizer: 日本育種学会中国地域談話会
  • Place of Presentation: 岡山大学（岡山県岡山市）
  • Year and Date: 2015-12-20
• [Presentation] Vegetation of the Chakhmaq site based on charcoal identification. (2014)
  • Author(s): Tanno, K.
  • Organizer: The first farming village in Northeast Iran and Turan
  • Place of Presentation: 筑波大学(つくば市)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 植物遺存体 (2014)
  • Author(s): 丹野研一
  • Organizer: 日本西アジア考古学会
  • Place of Presentation: 龍谷大学(京都市)
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Preliminary results of analyses of charred plant remains from late Natufian site of Dederiyeh, northwest Syria. (2013)
  • Author(s): Tanno, K., Willcox, G., Nishiaki, Y. and Akazawa, T.
  • Organizer: 16th Symposium of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany
  • Place of Presentation: テッサロニキ、ギリシャ
• [Presentation] Neolithic Azerbaijan: plant remains from Shulaveri-Shomu culture. (2013)
  • Author(s): Akashi, C., Tanno, K., Nishiaki, Y., and Guliyev, F.
  • Organizer: 16th Symposium of the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany
  • Place of Presentation: テッサロニキ、ギリシャ
• [Presentation] Hulled wheat seeds and spikelet bases from Dederiyeh(Natufian, northwest Syria) and Salat Cami Yanu (Pottery Neolithic, southeast Turkey) (2013)
  • Author(s): Tanno, K.
  • Organizer: Neolithic hulled wheat identification Workshop
  • Place of Presentation: Berrias, France
  • Invited
• [Book] Ｔｈｅ ｏｒｉｇｉｎｓ ｏｆ ａｇｒｉｃｕｌｔｕｒｅ (2016)
  • Author(s): Ｋ．Ｔａｎｎｏ ａｎｄ Ｏ． Ｍａｅｄａ
  • Publisher: Ｓｐｒｉｎｇｅｒ
• [Book] 「農耕の始まりを出土植物から調査する」『西アジア文明学への招待（筑波大学西アジア文明研究センター編）』 (2014)
  • Author(s): 丹野研一
  • Total Pages: 284
  • Publisher: 悠書館
• [Book] 「西アジアで生まれたお酒～“ワインとビール”は、出土植物分析によって解明できるのか？」『古代西アジアの食文化～ワインとビールの物語（日本西アジア考古学会編）』 (2014)
  • Author(s): 丹野研一
  • Total Pages: 74
  • Publisher: 日本西アジア考古学会
• [Book] Preliminary results from analyses of charred plant remains from a burnt Natufian building at Dederiyeh cave in northwest Syria: Terminal Pleistocene social changes in western Asia. In: Natufian foragers in the Levant (eds: Bar-Yosef O. and Valla F.R.). (2013)
  • Author(s): Tanno K., Willcox G., Muhesen S., Nishiaki Y., Kanjo Y. and Akazawa, T.
  • Total Pages: 717
  • Publisher: International monographs in prehistory