2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A comparative experimental archaeological study of stone bifacial knives in the prehistoric Egypt and West Asia.
| Project/Area Number |
18K12550
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 03050:Archaeology-related
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAGAYA KAZUYOSHI 早稲田大学, 総合研究機構, その他(招聘研究員) (60647098)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | 石器研究 / 実験考古学 / 石器製作技術 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examines the production techniques and especially the development process of flint bifacial knives in Egypt during the early state-forming period, which probably originated in West Asia in the late Neolithic period.
First, the characteristics of the production technique were clarified through replication experiments on the flint knives developed in Egypt, and the background to the spread of this technique in the Predynastic period was discussed. The flow from production to burial of these stone tools at Hierakonpolis, a representative site of the period, is also discussed.
Finally, with regard to West Asia, the characteristics of stone tool assemblages from the Neolithic arid zone (South Levant) are summarised.
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| Free Research Field |
考古学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
威信財としての石器の製作技術を実験考古学的に検討することは、国家や権力の形成といった社会のソフトの部分について、従来の考古資料の研究とは別角度から解釈の可能性を求める一助となると考える。また、波状剥取ナイフを含む種々の両面加工石器は、新石器化あるいは都市化といった人類史的にも大きな社会変化に歩を合わせるようにしてその用途や価値を変容させてきた石器でもある。こうした石器文化の技術的系譜について、エジプトから南レヴァントにまたがる広い枠組みでとらえることで、新石器時代から初期国家への人類社会の形成過程の理解につながると考える。
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