2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research about acceleration test of fossil human deformation process.
| Project/Area Number |
22657062
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Physical anthropology
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| Research Institution | Kochi University of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
NONAKA Koji 高知工科大学, 工学部, 教授 (70330777)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
ISHIDA Hajime 琉球大学, 医学部, 教授 (70145225)
KONDO Osamu 東京大学, 理学研究科, 准教授 (40244347)
AKAZAWA Takeru 高知工科大学, 総合研究所, 教授 (70013753)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | 形態 / 化石化の過程 / 加速試験 |
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| Research Abstract |
Fossil human remains(such as skulls of Neanderthals) were discovered usually as a set of deformed pieces of bone fragments. To physically simulate the deformation process in a short time, we performed compression experiments of skull replica with different environment condition such as pressure and temperature. The deformation ratio and speed strongly depend on these conditions. It means acceleration test is applicable to simulate the fossil cranial deformation process. The data from this experiment will be useful to get some hints for reconstruction of the deformed fossil skull samples
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Research Products
(5 results)
