| Budget Amount *help |
¥10,790,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,490,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The first archeological evidence in Mongolia of an iron-smelting site has been discovered at Khustyn Bulag. This site belongs to the Xiongnu age. Our excavation contained many interesting structures (smelting furnaces, roasters, and slag disposal pits). We could categorize the furnaces into three types, but all of them had slag pits. These characteristics of iron smelting are related not to China. We also performed metallurgical and mineralogical analyses, clarified the processes of direct steel-making, roasting of iron ore. We consider our research results sufficient to undertake a comparative study on Eurasia scale. This technology was introduced into ancient Mongolia from the West through the Steppe-Taiga area and was adjusted and locally developed, even though iron production was in conflict with the traditional nomadic life-style. We will continue our research, to clarify the interesting process that led nomadic society to produce political system and establish a nomadic state.
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