| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SEIKE Akira Osaka Univ., School of Literature Research Fellow, 大学院・文学研究科, 助手 (40303995)
MATSUI Akira Nara Cultural Properties Institute Senior Researcher, 主任研究官 (20157225)
DODO Yukio Tohoku Univ., School of Medicine Prof., 大学院・医学研究科, 教授 (50000146)
ISHIDA Hidemi Kyoto Univ., School of Science Prof., 大学院・理学研究科, 教授 (60027480)
NAKAHASHI Takahiro Kyushu Univ., Sch. of Soc. Cul. Studies Prof., 比較社会文化研究科, 教授 (20108723)
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| Research Abstract |
It is the most important for depicting clearly the people themselves and their live in prehistoric periods that we closely study the human skeletal remains and animal bone remains which have been unearthed in archaeological contexts. In the Japanese archaeology, however, the system to evaluate properly the results obtained through scientific analyses of such remains has not been fully established. Social interests for the study of ancient human skeletons and animal bones, thus far seem to not have been well matured. Furthermore arrangement of skeletal materials at universities and institutes, is quite bad for the cooperative research. For such reasons, both the osteoarchaeology and zooarchaeology researches in Japan are still to be advanced, and those research abilities should be well organized. In the three years in which this research project has been granted, we have worked for public relations in collaboration with several regional projects for excavation and conservation of archaeology sites, and have improved the storage system of ancient human skeletal materials. Actually we organized a quite big scale of public symposium every year, that is, in collaboration with Osaka Prefecture Ikegami-Sone Site Improvement Project in 1999, with Kobe-city Shinpo Site Excavation Programme in 2000, and with Hokkaido Date-city Kitakogane Shell-mound Conservation Project in 2001, respectively. In the three years, we improved the circumstances around human skeletal collections for research work and completed lists of such collections at Tohoku Univ., Kyoto Univ., Osaka City Univ., Osaka Univ. and Kyushu Univ. In addition, we tried test researches as to AMS dating, experimental archaeology, stable isotope analysis, and so on, using human and animal bone remains.
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