会誌『考古学研究』

CONTENTS

Vol.62　No.4（248）,March, 2016

ABSTRACT OF LECTURE TO BE DELIVERED AT THE 62nd GENERAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY

• Food diversity and the impacts of climate change: A case study from the Early and Middle Jomon Periods
• HABU Junko
  

ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE 62nd ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY

• Theme: Environmental change and social transformation
• HIGAMI Noboru and MATSUGI Takehiko
  
• Environmental changes in the Jomon Period and strategy for plant use
• OBATA Hiroki
  
• Local societies in the Yayoi and Kofun Periods as seen from geomorphic development and the use of cultivable lands: a case of southern part of the Kawachi Plain
• OBA Shigenobu
  
• Environmental change and social transformation around the ancient Hamana Lake
• GOTO Ken’ichi
  
• Transformation of social organization in the Shell Mound Period of the Amami and Okinawa Islands
  
• TAKAMIYA Hiroto
  

ARTICLES

• The eastward diffusion of Han mirrors in the Japanese archipelago and the significance of their possession and disposal
• MINAMI Kentarō
  Abstract: In making a historic evaluation of the transition from the Yayoi to the Kofun periods, a point of major change of era for the Japanese archipelago, the manner of diffusion of Han mirrors which held value as prestige goods, and the processes leading to their interment as grave goods and disposal, are important problems. However, in this regard the question of how to assess the difference in time between the Han mirrors’ production and disposal, in other words the issue of whether or not to recognize the possession of Han mirrors as heirlooms, greatly affects their historical significance.
  　This contribution makes an examination of the period of treatment as heirlooms by observing the conditions of wear of Han mirrors with a digital microscope, and analyzing their periods of production and diffusion. As a result, regarding the eastward diffusion of Han mirrors, it is pointed out that in the first half of the Late Yayoi period the influence of northern Kyushu was strong, while in the latter half of the Late Yayoi the interregional relations built over the area extending from the eastern portion of the Inland Sea eastward came into play. Also, it is thought that the cessation of possession as heirlooms was an outcome of the new treatment of bronze mirrors introduced by the southeastern region of the Yamato basin.

  Keywords: Yayoi period; Han mirrors; casting surface; wear; replica casting.
• Destruction of a burial mound suggested from the provenancial analysis and fracture mechanical examination of its deposited haniwa figures
• TOMII Makoto
  Abstract: Aiming at providing a way to understand the process and reason for breakage of archaeological remains prior to excavation, this paper examines, as a case study, how and why haniwa figures of the middle Kofun period （late 5th century AD） which were recently excavated from ditches at the No. 8 burial of the Yoshida-Nihonmatsu burial cluster in the northeast part of the Kyoto basin, were fragmented. The basic method is composed of both provenancial, or in situ, analysis, and fracture mechanism study. At first, based on the distribution of the fragments of haniwa figures, the original landscape of the burial with haniwa decoration is reconstructed. Then, each of the six, best preserved cylindrical and house-shaped haniwa figures is investigated in order to reconstruct the processes of both the breakage and deposition of these figures by collating the provenancial information of its largest cluster of sherds with their original position within the figure before breakage, and subsequently by reading the fracture lines to speculate the extent and/or strength of loading to the body of the figure. This inductive approach can demonstrate that both the burial mound and its decorating haniwa figures were intentionally destroyed, at least in some parts, by people of the past. Additionally, this destruction can be dated back to the Kofun period （6-7th century） as the fill of the ditch of other burials in the same cluster is overlapped by a posthole of a Nara period structure, and because the degree of weathering of the surface of these haniwa figures is far lower than that of many others recovered from burials that were destroyed during the Nara period in other areas.

  Keywords: Provenancial analysis; fracture mechanism; burial mound; haniwa; breakage.
  
  
• Negotiating ideologies in Classic Maya polity: Archaeological research and epigraphic studies at El Palmar, Mexico
• TSUKAMOTO Kenichiro
  Abstract: This paper assesses the coexistence of different ideologies and their negotiations in early complex societies through archaeological research. While previous research has tended to examine the notion of a single dominant ideology, I propose that ideological negotiations among people who resided in a civic-core and its outlying groups created crucial factors for the transformation of polities. To examine this hypothesis, the present study focused on the north group of the El Palmar archaeological site, which is located in south-eastern Campeche, Mexico. Data recovered from excavations suggest that lakam officials (non-royal elites) utilized the north group as a political arena in which they embodied their own ideologies. Based on the results, I conclude that the theory of ideologies is a useful approach to a better understanding of early complex societies.

  Keywords: ideologies; practice theory; early complex society; ancient Maya polity; Maya epigraphy.
  
  

REPORTS, NEWS AND APPEALS

• For the next generation of administration of the protection of cultural properties
• FUKUNAGA Shin’ya
  
• Report of attendance at the Basic Lectures on Management of the Protection of Buried Cultural
  Properties in the fiscal year of Heisei 27
• SEINO Takayuki and MIYOSHI Yutaro
  
• Kofun Summit in Ogaki: Message from ancient times, toward the future
• TAKAGI Kunihiro
  
• Report of attendance at the 48th meeting of “Regional Gathering to Reconsider and Protest against Japanese ‘Foundation Day’”
• MEKARU Kosaku
  
• Artistic Landscape of Archaeology 3: Artists step into the area of archaeology with their shoes on!
• MATSUI Toshio and DATE Nobuaki
  

BOOK REVIEWS

• KAWASHIMA Takamune. Jomon Social Complexity: Craft Production and Feasting
• SEGUCHI Shinji
  

NEW BOOK

   EGE Kazuhiro. Yayoi Societies as Seen from the Development of Mortuary Systems
   NOGUCHI Atsushi and ABE Masashi, eds. Islam and Cultural Properties
   KUZE Hitoshi. Walk around the Mozu Tumulus Clusters and Walk around the Furuichi Tumulus Clusters

SIXTY YEARS OF THE SOCIETY SEEN FROM THE PUBLICATIONS 3

ARCEO-FOCUS

• Excavation of the Shibuno-Maruyama mounded tomb in Tokushima-shi, Tokushima prefecture
• Tokushima City Board of Education

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMITTEE