Fundamental Research of subsistence composite and social structural changes in the agricultural culture established life in the Northeast region

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520868
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Archaeology
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAZAWA Michihiko 明治大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 研究員 (40626032)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): ABE Yoshiro 明治大学, 文学部, 教授 (10221730) ; NAKAMURA Yutaka 徳島大学, 大学院ソシオ・アーツ・アンド・サイエンス研究部, 准教授 (30291496) ; NAKAMURA Daisuke 埼玉大学, 教養学部, 准教授 (40403480) ; ONBE Shin 北海道大学, 埋蔵文化財調査室, 特定専門職員 (50450151)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: レプリカ法 / 環日本海 / 農耕 / 生業 / 土器編年 / 土器圧痕 / 縄文時代晩期 / 栽培

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To analyze the change in livelihood complexes and society of cultivation in the Sea of Japan coastal area, this project research on the grain impressions on earthware of the cultivated plants including rice, foxtail millet and proso millet by the replica method. This replica method is to pouring silicon resin into grain impressions, and identify the seeds under an SEM.And, the grain impression data is compared with the livelihood activity, for example, the change of the farming introduction such as the pottery and stone tools in the Final Jomon period.
As a result, this project clarified three points.1. The first introduction of the rice, foxtail millet and proso millet in the Japanese Islands was the end of Final Jomon(the phase of Tottaimon pottery type). 2. These first cultivation spread the through the Sea of Japan coastal area.3. It explained the processes that changed slowly from a hunting and gathering society to an agrarian society by the model of Misyaguji archeological sites.

Free Research Field

縄文時代晩期