Archaeology of the Pearl - to discovery of the collecting site
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23652177
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Archaeology
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| Research Institution | Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2012
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2012)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | 真珠 / 採集遺跡 / 天神山貝 / 珍珠城 / マナール湾 / 貝塚時代後期 / pearl-oyster / Gulf of Mannar / 貝塚 / 天神山貝塚 / 沖縄貝塚時代後期 / 糸島半島 / スリランカ / アコヤガイ / 広西チワン族自治区 / 貝類遺体 |
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| Research Abstract |
Surveys of literatures, archaeological materials and present field observations was made to discover on the archaeological sites of collecting site for pearl oyster from Yayoi to Kofun period. Only on the Tenjin-yama site, Itoshima-shi, Fukuoka pref., several remains of pearl oyster, Pinctada fusca was detected in Yayoi to Kofun period. This Pinctada shells of Tenjin-yama site will be evidence of collecting site for pearl oyster. Another pearl oyster, P. maculata were excavated from some archaeological sites of late Okinawa shell midden age. I will suppose that these sites will be also collecting site for pearl oyster. Historically, Pearl Oyster Castle of Hepu, Guangxi, China and Gulf of Mannar, Sri Lanka were well known to collecting site for pearl oyster, but details of these sites were unknown. In this survey pearl oyster remains were discovered on both sites, species, waste condition and age were understood for the first time.
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