Plant Food Cultures in Northern Jomon Japan from Starch Residue Analyses

• Project/Area Number: 26750101
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Cultural assets study and museology
• Research Institution: National Museum of Japanese History
• Principal Investigator: SHIBUTANI AYAKO 国立歴史民俗博物館, 大学共同利用機関等の部局等, 特任助教 (80593657)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥780,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
• Keywords: 植物食文化 / 縄文時代 / 北日本 / 残存デンプン粒 / 野生植物 / 加工・利用技術 / 資源状況 / 残存デンプン粒分析 / 野生植物利用 / 石器 / 土器

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to reconstruct processing techniques of wild plant foods at the Jomon sites in northern Japan by examining residues of starch granules extracted from stone tools and pottery vessels. As the result of this study, three points will be shown.

(1)Comparison of archaeological starch from stone tools and pottery vessels with macrobotanical remains might explore plant resources for food and morphometric patterns of processed plants. (2)Correctly identification of starch granules of processed plants from contaminated materials within the archaeological context were examined. (3)Different lines of degradation between cooked/heated by pottery and processed by stone tools might clearly be resolved.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] デンプン粒から探る縄文時代の植物食―食文化の通時的変化とプロセスの解明にむけて― (2017)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Journal Title: 月刊考古学ジャーナル Volume: 694 Pages: 35-39
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 多様な分析科学による古代の食性復元―セッション運営・参加報告― (2017)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Journal Title: 考古学研究 Volume: 252 Pages: 3-5
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 日本考古学における残存デンプン粒分析の現状と課題 (2015)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Journal Title: 古代文化 Volume: 67-1 Pages: 108-118
  • NAID: 40020524391
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] 残存デンプン粒分析におけるコンタミネーションの検討―北海道伊達市北黄金貝塚を中心として― (2015)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子・青野友哉・永谷幸人
  • Journal Title: 国立歴史民俗博物館研究報告 Volume: 195 Pages: 79-110
  • NAID: 120005749119
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 晩ご飯は何？資料のデンプンから探る昔の食べ物 (2017)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Organizer: 第400回国立歴史民俗博物館講演会
  • Place of Presentation: 国立歴史民俗博物館
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Reevaluating Plant Food Cultures during the Jomon Period Using Starch Granule Assemblages from Northern Japan (2017)
  • Author(s): Ayako Shibutani
  • Organizer: EAJS2017 Conference in Lisbon
  • Place of Presentation: The Universidade NOVA
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Hunter-gatherer exploitation of wild plant foods during the Jomon period in Japan (2016)
  • Author(s): Ayako Shibutani
  • Organizer: 17th Conference of the International Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany
  • Place of Presentation: the Natural History Museum in Paris
  • Year and Date: 2016-07-04
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 晩ご飯は何？デンプンから探る古代人の食生活 (2016)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Organizer: 中央大学人文科学研究所公開研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 中央大学多摩キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2016-01-09
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 資料をどう見るか？ 考古科学の立場から (2016)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Organizer: 国立歴史民俗博物館機関拠点型基幹研究「総合資料学の創成と日本歴史文化に関する研究資源の共同利用基盤構築」国際研究集会
  • Place of Presentation: 国立台湾歴史博物館
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] 微細植物遺体分析におけるデータ生成と解釈，誤解 (2016)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Organizer: 国立民族学博物館共同研究「考古学の民族誌―考古学的知識の多様な形成・利用・変成過程の研究」2016年度第1回研究会「考古科学を理解する」
  • Place of Presentation: 国立民族学博物館
• [Presentation] Hunter-gatherer Exploitation of Wild Plant Foods during the Jomon Period in Japan (2016)
  • Author(s): Ayako Shibutani
  • Organizer: 17th Conference of the Interntional Workgroup for Palaeoethnobotany
  • Place of Presentation: The National Museum for Natural History, Paris, France
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Starchy food in prehistoric Japan : For renovation of “Integrated Studies of Cultural and Research Resources” (2016)
  • Author(s): Ayako Shibutani
  • Organizer: The 8th World Archaeological Congress (WAC-8 Kyoto)
  • Place of Presentation: 同志社大学
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 残存デンプン粒分析 (2016)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Organizer: 日本植生史学会創立30周年記念シンポジウム
  • Place of Presentation: 専修大学生田キャンパス
  • Invited
• [Presentation] 人骨の歯石の残存デンプン粒から食生活を探る (2015)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Organizer: 第30回日本植生史学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: 北海道博物館
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-07
• [Presentation] What did Jomon people consume for starchy food? Case studies from the Jomon wetland sites in Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Ayako Shibutani
  • Organizer: XIX INQUA Congress, Nagoya
  • Place of Presentation: The Nagoya Congress Center (NCC)
  • Year and Date: 2015-08-01
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] What did Jomon people consume for starchy food? Case studies from the Jomon wetland sites in Japan (2015)
  • Author(s): Ayako Shibutani
  • Organizer: XIX INQUA 2015
  • Place of Presentation: 名古屋国際会議場
  • Year and Date: 2015-07-26 – 2015-08-02
• [Presentation] What Did People Eat in Prehistoric Japan? Evidence from Starch Granules on Stone Tools and Pottery Vessels (2015)
  • Author(s): Ayako Shibutani
  • Organizer: AWRANA2015
  • Place of Presentation: Universitieit Leiden
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-28
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] What Did People Eat in Prehistoric Japan? Evidence from Starch Granules on Stone Tools and Pottery Vessels (2015)
  • Author(s): Ayako Shibutani
  • Organizer: AWRANA 2015
  • Place of Presentation: Leiden University, Netherlands
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-27 – 2015-05-30
• [Presentation] 残存デンプン粒分析からみた縄文時代前半期の植物利用とその変化 (2015)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Organizer: 一般社団法人日本考古学協会第81回（2015年度）総会
  • Place of Presentation: 帝京大学八王子キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-24
• [Presentation] 残存デンプン粒分析からみた縄文時代前半期の植物利用とその変化 (2015)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Organizer: 一般社団法人日本考古学協会第81回（2015年度）大会
  • Place of Presentation: 帝京大学八王子キャンパス
  • Year and Date: 2015-05-24
• [Presentation] 加工対象物か，それともコンタミネーションか？日本の残存デンプン粒分析における議論の動向 (2014)
  • Author(s): 渋谷綾子
  • Organizer: 第29回日本植生史学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: 鹿児島大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-22 – 2014-11-23
• [Presentation] Plant food ways reflected from microbotanical remains and grinding stones in prehistoric northern Japan (2014)
  • Author(s): Ayako Shibutani，Leo Aoi Hosoya，Oki Nakamura，Shinji Seguchi
  • Organizer: 6th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA)
  • Place of Presentation: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-06 – 2014-06-10
• [Presentation] hat did Jomon people eat in fact?: Chronological shifts in Japanese Jomon subsistence strategies on the basis of local characteristics of north Tohoku area (2014)
  • Author(s): Leo Aoi Hosoya，Oki Nakamura，Shinji Seguchi，Ayako Shibutani
  • Organizer: 6th Worldwide Conference of the Society for East Asian Archaeology (SEAA)
  • Place of Presentation: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-06 – 2014-06-10
• [Book] ＜総合資料学＞の挑戦―異分野融合研究の最前線― (2017)
  • Author(s): 国立歴史民俗博物館
  • Total Pages: 180
  • Publisher: 吉川弘文館
• [Book] 茨城県守谷市松並溜遺跡・永泉寺東遺跡―守谷市松並土地区画整理事業に伴う埋蔵文化財発掘調査報告書― (2016)
  • Author(s): 岩田泰夫・原田昌幸・宮下数史・柴田徹・建石徹・小林謙一・二宮修治・渋谷綾子・新井和之・村山千栄子・今泉克巳
  • Total Pages: 529
  • Publisher: 有限会社有明文化財研究所
• [Remarks] 研究者紹介
  • URL: https://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/research/researcher/shibutani_ayako/
• [Remarks] 2014年度～2016年度科学研究費補助金・学術研究助成基金助成金
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• [Remarks] Researchmap
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• [Remarks] 研究者紹介
  • URL: http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/education_research/research/researcher/shibutani_ayako/
• [Remarks] 科学研究費補助金による研究
  • URL: http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/education_research/research/list/subsidy/2014/kitanihon.html
• [Remarks] 研究者紹介
  • URL: http://www.rekihaku.ac.jp/education_research/research/researcher/shibutani_ayako.html