| Budget Amount *help |
¥113,620,000 (Direct Cost: ¥87,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥26,220,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥23,270,000 (Direct Cost: ¥17,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,370,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥23,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥18,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥23,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥18,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥23,140,000 (Direct Cost: ¥17,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥5,340,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥20,410,000 (Direct Cost: ¥15,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,710,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project aimed to clarify Paleolithic cultural diversity that occurred in association with the dispersals of anatomically modern humans from Africa to Asia. For this purpose, we conducted archaeological investigations in several key areas in Asia (West Asia, North Asia, Southeast Asia, and East Asia) to collect original records about past human behaviors, such as tool production, resource use, residential mobility, and social relations. We collaborated with chronometric, paleoenvironmental, and ethnographic studies to clarify temporal, environmental, and cultural contexts of the past human behaviors. Based on the results of these studies, we proposed a new mathematical model called “the ecocultural range expansion model” that is grounded on cultural evolutionary and ecological theories in order to explain temporal and geographical diversity of Paleolithic cultures in relation to the dispersals of modern humans and the concomitant demise of archaic humans.
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