A basic study of Various Blade Technology in Japanese Late Paleolithic age

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520872
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Koriyama Women's Junior College
• Principal Investigator: AITA Yoshihiro 郡山女子大学短期大学部, その他部局等, 准教授 (40192835)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 石刃製作 / 特殊な打面調整 / 軟石ハンマー直接打撃 / 横道遺跡 / 楢ノ木平遺跡 / 石器技術学 / 製作実験 / J.Pelegrin

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Paleolithic archaeologists of Japan have long considered stone blades as flaked off a central core by an indirect percussion flake production method. Of particular note is the work of renowned French Paleolithic researcher, Dr. Pelegrin. His successful stone fabrication technology tests using chaine operatoire “production steps” have been of specific interest to us. This production concept is best described in terms of technique and method. In order to introduce this approach we invited Dr. Pelegrin to Japan to demonstrate his techniques and study the Japanese Paleolithic stone blade production process with him.
Dr. Pelegrin has produced an experimental stone tool; with it he succeeded in separately forming two kinds of stone blades. As a result of research with Dr. Pelegrin, the Yokomichi industry has revealed two methods that exist for dividing stones to create a slender blade and a wide blade by incorporating his direct blow soft stone hammer methods.

Free Research Field

考古学