social and life condition of prehistory from paleopathological evidence

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370904
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: Tanihata Miho 明治大学, 研究・知財戦略機構, 客員研究員 (10440174)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 古病理 / 古墳 / 埋葬 / 人骨

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Human bones excavated from the ancient tomb are generally poor preservation. As a result, it is also difficult to carry out consideration on paleopathological evidence during the Kofun period.
In this research, identification of the part of bones were done from fragments, individual identification was done in situ, and then examined the paleopathological evidences. And skeletal materials in southern Kyushu etc. that have relatively good preservation have low frequency of dental caries and relatively high frequency of periostitis in the shaft of tibia. Also from previous studies, hierarchical differences have been presented from the size of the mounds, etc. However, it is not possible to present hierarchical differences etc.from paleopathological evidence in ancient tombs.

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人文