| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KOIZUMI Tatsundo Institute of Oriental Culture, the Univ. of Tokyo, Research associate, 東洋文化研究所, 機関研究員 (80257237)
AKAHORI Masayuki Department of Foreign Languages, Sophia Univ., Lecturer, 外国語学部, 専任講師 (20270530)
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| Research Abstract |
The present study aimed to reconstruct the socio-economic development of the Chalcolithic period of Mesopotamia, using the archaeological data from the settlement of Tell Kosak Shamali, Syria. The site, situated on the east bank of the Upper Euphrates, has been a focus for intensive archaeological investigations by the University of Tokyo team since 1994. The excavations in 1994 to 1997 produced rich prehistoric materials of the Ubaid to Uruk period, including a series of stratified pottery workshops completed with potter's too]s and kilns. The excavated area may have been a specialized workplace for several centuries, thus providing valuable data on the development of socio-economic structure as well as pottery production technology in the Chalcolithic period. The detailed analysis a defined the changing nature of "specialization" for pottery production at Tell Kosak Shamali in the Chalcolithic period. It suggests that the pottery production prior to the early 4th millennium BC was mostly conducted under the independent specialization system, while that of the later period was apparently governed by the mixing system of the independent ,,and attached specialization. The shift seems a rather rapid one, probably guided by a variety of such social factors as political and symbolic demands among the increasingly more complex society.
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