2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Development of specialization of grain cooking and urbanization in the Predynastic Egypt.
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21401033
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 海外学術 |
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| Research Field |
Archaeology
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| Research Institution | Kinki University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Research Collaborator |
SHIRAI Noriyuki Marie Curie Visiting Research Fellow, University College London
ENDO Hitoshi 総合地球環境学研究所, プロジェクト研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | 古代エジプト / 初期国家形成 / ビール / 都市化 / ナカダ文化 / ヒエエラコンポリス / 先王朝時代 / 食物調理 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Purposes of this study are to elucidate the development process of large cooking installations for grains and to understand their effects on the urbanization of settlements during the state formation period in Egypt, i.e. the 4th millennium BC. For the purposes, excavations of a large cooking installation were carried out at the Locality HK24B in the settlement area of Hierakonpolis, the largest Predynastic settlement site on the west bank of the Nile. The installation, dated to the first half of the 4th millennium BC, could produce about one thousand litters of food staff mixed with water and grains (beer malt?), which far exceeded an amount for domestic consumption. Additional field research and studies on previous excavations indicated that such cooking installations would have influenced on cooperation of settlement members and settlement organization towards urbanization.
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| Free Research Field |
考古学
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