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2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Traditional pottery makings in Oceania : a study of mechanism that produced the variations

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610478
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 考古学(含先史学)
Research InstitutionNational Museum of Ethnology

Principal Investigator

INTOH Michiko  National Museum of Ethnology, Dept. of Social Research, professor, 民族社会研究部, 教授 (40203418)

Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2002
KeywordsOceania / archaeology / folk technology / prehistoric pottery / historic photo collection / technological variation
Research Abstract

Earthen pottery was made on most of high islands in Oceania except for the remort islands in Polynesia. The variation existed among different pottery traditions seems to be related to different function of pots and different natural environments to which technology was adapted to. Adaptive transformation of ceramic technology is most likely to take place when new environmental conditions are encountered. In the case of colonization, rapid change can be expected until a state of "adaptedness" is achieved, at which point the rate of adaptation will taper off. One should therefore be careful in comparing a certain type of pottery in one pottery tradition with a type in a different pottery tradition, particularly if these were made under different environmental conditions. Even if both pottery traditions had been derived froiti a single tradition originally., technology and products could well be adapted differently to different environmental conditions. If, therefore, one is to look at cultural relationships between two pottery traditions, the original technology should be compared but not the modified technology.
There are clearly numerous potential ways that people could adapt their ceramic technology to solve a problem created by unusual environmental conditions. It might be expected that the general course of changes would result in adaptations which use less energy to achieve the same result. It is obvious that kinds and degrees of cultural demands for pottery in a society impact significantly on selecting the course of ceramic changes. A combination of the natural and the cultural environments vary from society to society which produces a ceramic tradition. Hence ceramic attributes of an assemblage should bfc examined as a whole in relation to their environments before they are compared with those of other ceramic assemblages.

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All Publications (6 results)

  • [Publications] Intoh, M., W.R.Dickinson: "Prehistoric pottery movements in western Micronesia : Technological and petrological studies of potsherds from Fais Island"New Zealand Arhcaeological Association Monograph. 25. 123-134 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Intoh, M.: "Understanding the colonizing strategies of resource limited islands : evidence from Fais island in Micronesia"Proceedings of 17^<th> IPPA Congress in Taipei. (in press).

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  • [Publications] 印東道子: "『オセアニア 暮らしの考古学』朝日選書715"朝日新聞社. 1-249 (2002)

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  • [Publications] Intoh, M. and W.R. Dickinson: "Prehistoric pottery movements in western Micronesia: Technological and petrological studies of potsherds from Fais Island."Bed ford, S., et.al.(eds.), Fifty Years in the Field: Essays in Honour and Celebration of Richard Shutier Jr.'s Archaeological Career. New Zealand Arhcae- ological Association Monograph. No. 25. 123-134 (2002)

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  • [Publications] IntOih, M.: "Understanding the colonizing strategies of resource limited islands: evidence from Fais island in Micronesia."Proceedings of 17th IPPA Congress in Taipei. (in press).

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  • [Publications] Intoh, M.: "Oceania: archaeology of their traditional life (In Japanese.)"Asahi Shinbun Co.. 3-249 (2002)

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Published: 2004-04-14  

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