Production and Movement of Jar Coffins in Yayoi Period by Pottery Analysis

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K12556
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 03050:Archaeology-related
• Research Institution: Kagoshima University
• Principal Investigator: Ishida Tomoko 鹿児島大学, 法文教育学域法文学系, 准教授 (40624359)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 土器 / 物質文化 / 胎土分析 / 弥生時代 / 考古学 / 地球科学 / 生産 / 移動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this study is to examine the social background of the beginning of the division of labor in pottery production in the handicraft industry in the Japanese archipelago. In particular, we examined changes in social relations from the perspective of the pottery production system and migration phenomena, using a burial jar coffin from the Middle and Late Yayoi Period in the Northern Kyushu region. The analysis was based on a combination of typological examination using archaeological methods and pottery analysis using earth scientific methods. By creating a database of burial jar coffins and related materials, and by analyzing the paste from the potteries, the relationship between jar coffins and daily pottery and red-colored pottery was examined. The use of pottery associated with burial is a phenomenon that has been confirmed in many regions and periods, so we can be positioned as a case study focusing on the Yayoi period in Kyushu.

Free Research Field

考古学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

生活域と墓域の両方で使用される土器を総合的に検討することで、先史時代の土器生産体制や地域間交流の実相を明らかにした。本研究は考古学的資料操作から分析データ解析に至るまで一貫した問題意識で研究課題に取り組んだ点が特徴であり、考古学における胎土分析の実践事例としてのありかたを提唱するものである。