A archaeological study on the northern path of Circum Japanese sea

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23251014
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: Onuki Shizuo 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (70169184)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): SATO HIROYUKI 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (50292743) ; FUKUDA MASAHIRO 九州大学, 人文科学研究院, 助教 (20431877) ; KUMKI TOSHIAKI 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 准教授 (20282543) ; KUBIKITA DAI 東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 助教 (00549561)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 考古学 / サハリン / 北海道 / 縄文時代 / アムール川 / 石刃鏃 / 新石器時代

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The path of negotiations with the mainland is limited because Japanese archipelago is surrounded by the sea. As the start of the Yayoi culture, negotiations with the mainland thorough the Korean Peninsula were common. In northern there was the another route via Sakhalin but, this route is also contemplated, such as if they were always open, has not been elucidated empirically far. In this project we sought to identify the timing of this northern corridor was substantially function. Our answer is that after Hokkaido and Sakhalin was disconnected because of the rise of sea level only in the Holocene, archaeologically there was only one short time of active negotiation at of the early Jomon period. And after then that path had remained essentially closed up to the epi-Jomon period.

Free Research Field

東北アジア考古学