| Budget Amount *help |
¥16,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,870,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥4,940,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,140,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥6,110,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,410,000)
|
|---|
| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Japanese archaeologists have previously considered the climatic deterioration, especially decrease in temperature, and the introduction of methods of wet rice cultivation to Japan as the major factors for cultural changes from the Jomon to Yayoi Period. The principal investigator has examined these hypotheses from the following three perspectives: 1) whether the decrease in temperature is reflected in zoo-archaeological evidence or not; 2) whether the decrease in temperature in reflected in paleoethnobotanical evidence or not; and 3) what were the major factors for the increased complexity of subsistence and social organizations from the Middle to Final Jomon Period that took place at archaeological sites. The results of analysis conducted by the principal investigator, however, have revealed no evidence of climatic deterioration. Furthermore, as the social organization became more complex, the subsistence activities became more specialized.
|
