The role of fish in ancient farming society: Establishment of fish culture in East Asia

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26300004
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Cultural assets study and museology
• Research Institution: Okayama University of Science
• Principal Investigator: Nakajima Tsuneo 岡山理科大学, 生物地球学部, 教授 (60139938)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 内山 純蔵 ふじのくに地球環境史ミュージアム, 学芸課, 教授 (40303200) ; 槙林 啓介 愛媛大学, 東アジア古代鉄文化研究センター, 准教授 (50403621)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MAKIBAYASHI Keisuke 愛媛大学, 東アジア古代鉄文化研究センター, 准教授 (50403621)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 養魚 / 魚類遺存体 / 淡水漁撈 / 古代農耕社会 / コイ科

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Cyprinid fish remains are excavated in large quantities from the western part of Japanese Archipelago to the basin of Yangtze. In this project, to clarify the relationship of rice cultivation and freshwater fishery during the shift to agricultural society, we examined a detailed analysis of fish remains and fishing gear. People who forced the conversion of food resources in the post-glacial period, found fish that came to lay eggs in the water ecotone, and began to use the resources of the water front, including fish and wild rice. And a set of fishery and gat hering of rice was established and then carp forming and rice cultivation developed. Technique for controlling the water associated with carp farming were diverted to paddy rice cultivation. Net fishing technology was developed in the set of fishery and rice cultivation in the Jiangsu plain and the Yangtze River basin spread to Henan and Shandong independently of the rice cultivation.

Free Research Field

環境考古学