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A comprehensive study on Palaeolithic voyage in the Ryukyu Islands

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K13133
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Area studies
Research InstitutionNational Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo

Principal Investigator

Kaifu Yousuke  独立行政法人国立科学博物館, 人類研究部, グループ長 (20280521)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) SHINODA Kenichi  国立科学博物館, 人類研究部, 部長 (30131923)
KONO Reiko  慶應義塾大学, 文学部, 准教授 (30356266)
YONEDA Minoru  東京大学, 総合研究博物館, 教授 (30280712)
GOTO Akira  南山大学, 人文学部, 教授 (40205589)
ONO Rintaro   (40462204)
NOBAYASHI Atsushi  国立民族学博物館, 教授 (10290925)
KAN Nobuhiro (YOKOYAMA Yusuke)  九州大学, 比較社会文化研究科, 教授 (20294390)
KUBOTA Yoshimi  国立科学博物館, 地学研究部, 研究員 (80710946)
KOKUBUGATA Goro  国立科学博物館, 植物研究部, 研究主幹 (40300686)
IHARA Yasuo  東京大学, 理学系研究科, 講師 (90376533)
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Keywords旧石器時代 / 航海術 / 琉球列島 / 人類史
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The goal of this project was to form a theoretical model that explains how Palaeolithic people crossed the seas of the Ryulyu Islands in southwestern Japan. Researchers form a wide variety of fields got together to share information for this purpose. We conclude that the Palaeolithic people crossed the ocean by paddling either reed-bundle boat, bamboo-raft boat, or wooden dug-out canoe, as a group of at least 5 men and 5 women, in the sea of the Kuroshio current. This must have been an intentional voyage. We will later apply this model to our ongoing experimental voyage project to further understand how difficult their challenge was.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2017 2016 Other

All Journal Article (4 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 1 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] 人類最古段階の航海―その謎にどう迫るか?2017

    • Author(s)
      海部陽介
    • Journal Title

      科学

      Volume: 87 Pages: 836-840

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 人類初期の舟技術―環太平洋地域を中心に2017

    • Author(s)
      後藤明
    • Journal Title

      科学

      Volume: 87 Pages: 841-848

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 世界最古の往復航海――後期旧石器時代初期に太平洋を越えて運ばれた神津島産黒曜石2017

    • Author(s)
      池谷信之
    • Journal Title

      科学

      Volume: 87 Pages: 849-854

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 21世紀の化石研究が明らかにした人類の起源 ~単純ではなかった私たちの来歴2016

    • Author(s)
      海部陽介
    • Journal Title

      生物の科学遺伝

      Volume: 70 Pages: 446-450

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 旧石器時代の航海 ― その謎にどう迫るか?2017

    • Author(s)
      海部陽介・佐藤宏之・後藤明・池谷信之
    • Organizer
      第15回日本旧石器学会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] How Palaeolithic people crossed the ocean to the Japanese Islands >30,000 years ago: An experimental approach2016

    • Author(s)
      Kaifu, Y.
    • Organizer
      “Human Dispersals in the Late Pleistocene Interdisciplinary Approaches Towards Understanding the Worldwide Expansion of Homo sapiens” Organized by Petraglia, M.
    • Place of Presentation
      Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History (Germany)
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-08
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 3万年前の航海 徹底再現プロジェクト2016

    • Author(s)
      海部陽介
    • Organizer
      第70回日本人類学会大会
    • Place of Presentation
      NSC学生総合プラザSTEP(新潟県・新潟市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-10-08
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Human impacts on the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan, 30,000 years ago: A lesson from an experimental voyage project2016

    • Author(s)
      Kaifu, Y.
    • Organizer
      8th World Archaeology Congress-8 Kyoto
    • Place of Presentation
      同志社大学(京都府・京都市)
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-28
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] 3万年前の航海 徹底再現プロジェクト

    • URL

      https://www.kahaku.go.jp/research/activities/special/koukai/

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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