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2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

International collaborative research on the dynamics of prehistoric people in the Northern region from the viewpoint of the geology and petrology of obsidian

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 26282068
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypePartial Multi-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Cultural assets study and museology
Research InstitutionHokkaido University of Education

Principal Investigator

WADA Keiji  北海道教育大学, 教育学部, 教授 (50167748)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) 出穂 雅実  首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 准教授 (20552061)
後藤 芳彦  室蘭工業大学, 工学研究科, 准教授 (20221252)
Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) SATO Eiichi  神戸大学, 大学教育推進機構, 助教 (40609848)
SATO Hiroyuki  東京大学, 人文社会系研究科, 教授 (50292743)
ONO Akira  明治大学, 研究知財戦略機構, 教授 (70000502)
Research Collaborator SANO Kyohei  
NAKAZAWA Yuichi  
AKAI Fumito  
YAMADA Satoru  
ODA Noriyoshi  
YAMAHARA Toshiro  
Ferguson Jeffrey R.  
Glascock Michael  
Vasilevski Alexander A.  
Grishchenko Vyacheslav  
Grebennikov Andrei V.  
McPhie Jocelyn  
Project Period (FY) 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Keywords黒曜石 / 溶岩の内部構造 / 旧石器時代遺跡 / 化学組成による産地判別 / 発泡・脱ガス・冷却速度 / 黒曜石調達行動
Outline of Final Research Achievements

We clarified the internal structure of obsidian lavas from the following three localities; Shirataki in the north Hokkaido, Kozushima, one of the Izu islands, and the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia. Based on the layer structure in obsidian lava and the rock texture and composition, we presented a formation model of obsidian caused by the promotion of outgassing and of rhyolite by leaving air bubbles through the cooling process of highly viscous magma.
We constructed a systematic archeological obsidian research in Hokkaido. We made it possible to identify the sources of obsidian artifacts by the most practical and accurate method of combining X-ray fluorescence and neutron activation analysis. Analyses of more than 3,400 obsidian artifacts of the late Paleolithic sites in Hokkaido suggest that the behavior pattern of the hunter-gatherer group and accompanying obsidian procurement behavior changes with time as a boundary at the late glacial maximum of about 20,000 years ago.

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岩石学

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Published: 2019-03-29  

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