1988 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Rice Culture: An Interpretation of Location, Agro-technology and Historical Development of Rice Cultivation In the Periods of Yayoi and Kofun
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61300009
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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 | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
TAKAYA Yoshikazu Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto Univ., 東南アジア研究センター, 教授 (90027582)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OHJI Toshiaki Professor, Facluty of Letters, Kyoto Univ., 文学部, 教授 (60024212)
WATABE Tadayo Professor, The Open University, 教授 (00032053)
FURUKAWA Hisao Associate Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto Univ., 東南アジア研究センター, 助教授 (00026410)
KURAKU Yoshimichi Head, Section of Archaelogical Survey I, National Institute for the Study of Cul, 考古等一調査室, 室長 (00000472)
SAHARA Makoto Chief, Division of Research Guidance, National Institute for the Study of Cultur, 研究指導部, 部長 (20000466)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1987 – 1988
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| Keywords | Rice culture / Dry-field culture / Yayoi Period / Kofun Period / Ecological environment / Continental culture / 農耕技術 |
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| Research Abstract |
This project aims at an integration and a new interpretation of archaeological surveys on rice culture in ancient times through, on the one hand, inventarization of excavation reports which are voluminously published under the auspices of various levels of local governments' agencies, and, on the other hand, field survey of excavation sites by a team of participants of various disciplines. The first effort of inventarization resulted in a book of collectinns of surveyed rice-field remains. Some 200 sites were selected as their areas of excavation are wide enough to compare and as the bunds are traceable. All of the maps drwan in various reports are reproduced in the same scale so that the comparison could become easier. The field survey were conducted in Aomori and Akita, the northern tip of ancient rice sultivation, and Gumma, Tochigi and Saitama, the richest storage area of remains of the Kofun period. We concluded that rice-cultivation technology arrived at Aomori together with pottery characteristic to Kyushu in quite earlier times. It was supposed to be spread from Kyushu, where the influence from southern China is obvious. However, the small partitioned rice-fields found in Taruyanagi and other places could be an importation of the dry-field cultivation technology in the inland Continent. If it is so, we should interprete the Yayoi rice-cultivation as a result of stratification of southern Chinese and continental elements.
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