2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The basic study about the ritual and social organization of the society at the Yayoi period based on the analysis and corpus of the date of the figurines.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22520773
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Archaeology
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	SHITARA Hiromi 東京大学, 大学院・人文社会系, 教授 (70206093)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	弥生時代 / 人物造形品 / 男女像 / 鳥の扮装 / 縄文土偶 / 僻邪
Research Abstract	I have been able to capture 274 dates about the figurines at the Yayoi period through the work during 3 years. I putted together these dates, I have attained three important results as followers. (1)These dates were inputted into computer.(2)The dates of the reference books were inputted too. (3)36 figures consisted by these materials were drawn and edited. I speculated about the characteristic of the ritual and the social organization on the Yayoi society based on this work and made the comparativeanalysis with thinking about the Dogu figurines at the Jomon period and some materials atChina and Coria using same time at the Yayoi period.

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