1998 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Late Quatemary mammalian extinctions and human activities in the Japanese Islands
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08640590
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Stratigraphy/Paleontology
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| Research Institution | Aichi University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
KAWAMURA Yoshinari Aichi University of Education Faculty of Education, Professor, 教育学部, 教授 (00135394)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NAKAGOSHI Toshio Faculty of Literature, Hiroshima University, Research associate, 文学部, 助手 (80144799)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1996 – 1998
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| Keywords | Late Pleistocene / Holocene / Mammal / Extinction / Japanese Islands / Jomon pottery / Paleolithic tool / Cultural change |
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| Research Abstract |
It is well known that a number of mammal species became extinct all over the world during the late Quaternary. But systematic studies on such an extinction phenomenon have been rarely conducted in East Asia. Thus the present research project has attempted to collect the data concerning Late Pleistocene and Holocene fossil localities in Japan which yield extinct mammalian species. In this project, the "extinct species" comprise not only true extinct species which completely vanished from the earth, but also extant species which do not occur in all or most areas of the Japanese Islands in the present day. Taxonomical, chronological and biogeographical data are also collected on the extinct species. On the basis of these data, the timing and pattern of the extinction are inferred to consider the cause of the extinction. Archaeological data concerning the artifact transition from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene are compared with the data of the extinct mammals obtained. The extinction phenomenon in the Japanese Islands may be explained by the environmental and overkill compound hypothesis proposed by Stuart (1991).
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Research Products
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