1987 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Basic Japanese culture and its transformation in Amami Islands
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60300028
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
広領域
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| Research Institution | International Research Center for Japanese Studies (1987)
The University of Tokyo (1986) |
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Principal Investigator |
HANIHARA Kazuro International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 研究部, 教授 (70011707)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KOUCHI Makiko Industrial Products Research Institute, 製品科学研究所(昭和62年度より), 主任研究官 (80126052)
MATSUSHITA Takayuki Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 医学部, 助教授 (80108282)
KAMIMURA Toshio Faculty of Law and Letters,Kagoshima University, 法文学部, 教授 (40136833)
NAITO Yoshiatsu Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 医学部, 教授 (30039490)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1985 – 1987
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| Keywords | Amami / Yoron Island / anthropology / 考古学 |
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| Research Abstract |
Osteometry, somatometory and archeological surveys were carried out at Yoron Island, Kagoshima Prefecture. The results are as follows: 1) Both orteometry and somatometry show that the inhabitants of Yoron Island are intermediate between those of South Kyushu and Okinawa in morphology. 2) Archeologically, the culture of Yoron Island is evidently a mixture of South Kyushu and Okinawa cultures.
it is quite likely, therefore, that the inhabitants and the culture of Yoron Island have derived originally from the Neolithic Jomon period and gradually changed by accepting influences of populations in South Kyushu and Okinawa. This fact, in turn, might have been caused by little influence of the people who migrated to Japan after Aeneolithic Yayoi age from Northeast Asia. In addition, cultures as well as physical clines from South Kyushu to Okinawa call our special attention.
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