Human migration, maritime adaptation and resource use in Wallacea

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26300028
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Tokai University
• Principal Investigator: Ono Rintaro 東海大学, 海洋学部, 准教授 (40462204)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 米田 穣 東京大学, 総合研究博物館, 教授 (30280712) ; 印東 道子 国立民族学博物館, 人類文明誌研究部, 教授 (40203418) ; 竹中 正巳 鹿児島女子短期大学, その他部局等, 教授 (70264439) ; 片桐 千亜紀 九州大学, 比較社会文化研究院, 共同研究者 (70804730)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 人類移住 / ホモ・サピエンス / 資源利用 / 島嶼適応 / 海洋適応 / 島嶼間ネットワーク / 金属器時代 / 旧石器時代

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research project aims to reconstruct the past migration, maritime adaptation and material culture of modern human (Homo Sapiens) in East Indonesia or Wallacea region. During the project, we excavated and analyzed four major prehistoric sites from the late Pleistocene to Holocene times. They also cover the Paleolithic, Neolithic and Early Metal ages, and we could find many new archaeological and anthropological data of the past modern human subsistence and resource use, and their temporal changes during the late Pleistocene to Holocene. Some outcomes of our project were already published in international academic journals and books, and more outcomes will be published in near future.

Free Research Field

海洋考古学