Regional structures of Kofun period societies reconstructed with Geographic Information System
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10610396
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
考古学(含先史学)
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| Research Institution | OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
NIIRO Izumi Okayama University, Faculty of letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (20172611)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2000)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
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| Keywords | archaeology / GIS / Kofun / regional structure / database / program / Perl / simulation / Perl / 画像処理 / 数値地図 / 古墳 |
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| Research Abstract |
1. Spatial analyses of archaeological materials of Kofun period Japan were made with the Geographic Information System software and specially developed programs using Perl and Perl/Tk. These programs were published in the final report of this research.
2. With these programs, the Digital Elevation Model data published by the Geographical Survey Institute in Japan and the Global Topographic Data of GTOPO30 could be utilized for such spatial analyses.
3 A database of the keyhole-shaped buial mounds in the Cyugoku-Shikoku region (westem Honsyu) was made and with the GIS program the distribution of them was visualized on topographically analyzed images.
4. A program for estimating ancient agricultural productivity was developed and a computer-simulated model of ancient settlement was made with it. The result was also compared with the real distribution of burial mounds.
5. The traffic and communication models were made on the bases of the settlement model for the purpose of developing simulations of population-increase, marital relationships, commodity exchanges and cultural transmissions
6. With these analyses, the spatial investigation of the Kofun-peiod societies was innovated. This research can be one of the first examples of applying Geographic Information System systematically to archaeological materials in Japan.
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