会誌『考古学研究』

CONTENTS

Vol.64　No.4（256）, March 2018

ABSTRACT OF LECTURE TO BE DELIVERED AT THE 64th GENERAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY

• Does the monuments symbolize power?: A perspective from the Andean Civilization, South America
• SEKI Yuji

ABSTRACT OF PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE 64th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY

• Theme: What is power?: Archaeological examination of ritual and warfare
• GOTO Akira and TSUJITA Jun’ichiro
• Warfare among hunter-gatherer societies: Considering promoting/preventive factors of inter-group violence
• MATSUMOTO Naoko
• Rituals with bronze artifacts and power in the Yayoi period: Focusing on Dotaku bronze bells
• KITAJIMA Daisuke
• Production and circulation of iron weapons and the formation of state power in Japan
• TOYOSHIMA Naohiro
• Ancient temples, state and local societies
• KAJIWARA Yoshimitsu

ARTICLES

• Reading a Yayoi 'myth': A new analysis and interpretation of four sequentially produced Dotaku bronze bells from the Yayoi IV period
• MIZOGUCHI Koji
  Abstract: This paper investigates to the meaning（s） and the structuring principle（s） of the pictorial representations of the four Dotaku bronze bells produced by a distinct school of artisans in the late Middle Yayoi （Yayoi IV） period. By applying the methodology of the ‘Myth analysis’ proposed by Claude Levi-Strauss, it is revealed that the structural relationships constituted by the pictorial representations of living beings depicted on those bronze bells, ranging from insects to human beings, show all the definitional elements of the myth that Levi-Strauss recognizes, i.e.: dichotomy, transformation, and mediation. It is interpreted that the principal meaning and function of that which was constituted by and expressed with the relational structuring of the representations were intended to enable the people of the time to make sense as to why the components of their life-world became as they were. It is argued that this mythological narrative also shows the characteristics of both cold and hot societies of the Levi-Straussian sense, suggestive of the social background of the myth represented by the pictorial representations of those bronze bells.

  Keywords: Dotaku bronze bells; pictorial representations; myth; Levi-Strauss; Yayoi period.
• Types of cave burials in the Kofun period
• YAMADA Shunsuke
  Abstract: This contribution examines acts of interment at cave burials, and ascertained that single burials are the dominant form in western Japan and multiple burials are dominant in eastern Japan. Also, two types can be discerned for the multiple burials of eastern Japan from the end of the Late to the Final Kofun periods. On the Pacific coast from the Miura peninsula to the southern portion of the Tōhoku region, special treatment of the skull only in the burial can be recognized, and as bracelets of limpet shell, ring-shaped objects of deer antler, oracle bones, and so forth show a similar distributional trend, a cultural sphere mediated by the sea is posited. At the same time, pseudo-extended reburials, or secondary burials of skeletonized remains that are laid out in the manner of an extended burial, are seen from the Sagami to the Tōtōmi regions, and as large cooking pots thought to have been used for boiling bonito, and fish hooks of deer antler thought to have been used as lures for bonito are distributed over a similar area, this is also seen as forming a cultural sphere. The people interred in these cave burials are thought to have been seafarers who trafficked the maritime regions described above and gained their living from the sea. There are two peaks of cave burial use, in the Middle Kofun and from the end of the Late to the Final Kofun periods. Examining archaeological and historical materials in contrasting fashion, cave burials can be understood as becoming salient during periods of strengthened interference by the central polity into the affairs of maritime peoples. It is concluded that cave burials were a mortuary form proactively selected by maritime peoples who took cognizance of their group identity, and for the formation and maintenance of that identity, due to contact with Kofun culture which they regarded as a cultural Other.

  Keywords: Kofun period; cave burials; maritime peoples; identity.
  
  

REPORTS, NEWS AND APPEALS

• Special feature: Archaeology in schools

Constructing the study on archaeological collections in schools

MURANO Masakage and WASAKI Kotaro
The value of school collections: The case of archaeological material and anthropological models and specimens
HIRATA Takashi
Making use of archaeological materials in schools: voices from the schools
SHIMADA Yusuke, JIN’NO Shinsaku and HATTA Tomokazu

A new approach for connecting schools and archaeology

ICHIMOTO Rui, SETANI Kyoko and MURANO Masakage

• Remains of modern warfare 5: Cases studies from England
• KAWAMOTO Masahiro
  
• Remains of modern warfare 6: The significance of artworks and murals in understanding former Cold War sites: Perspectives from East and West
• John SCHOFIELD
  
• Usefulness of the archaeological study of chaîne opératoire: It’s usage in an archaeological site museum
• AITA Yoshihiro
• A new online dictionary of archaeological terms in Japanese, German and English
• Werner STEINHAUS and Ulrich APEL
  
• Report of Attendance at the 4th Resarch and Networking Meeting of the Network for Archiving Historical Documents
• FURUICHI Hideharu
  
• Current situation and prospect concerning the digitalization of the activities of the Society
• Digitalization Committee of the Society

BOOKS REVIEWS

• YAGIURA Shun’ichi. The Study of Jomon Culture in San'in district, Japan
• NAKAMURA Yutaka
• KIM Woodae. Relationships between Ancient Korea and Wa (Ancient Japan) as seen from gold crafts: Toward a new history of inter-regional relationshipse
• TOYOSHIMA Naohiro
• ONO Rintaro. Oceanic human history: Archaeology of the sea areas in Southeast Asia and Oceania
• GOTO Akira

NEW BOOKS

• OKAMURA Hidenori. The Archaeology of Yungang Grottoes: Researching the giant Buddha Statues of the nation of a nomadic tribe
• TOKUDOMI Kōichi
• OKADA Mayumi. Cultural heritage management in the State of Israel: Protection and utilization of  archaeological sites
• KUWABARA Hisao

ARCHEO-FOCUS

• Burial no.1 of Isoma-Iwakage Site, Wakayama prefecture
• SEIKE Akira
  
• Kerma remains, Republic of the Sudan
• Charles BONNET and SEKIHIRO Naoyo
  

LETTER

• Libraries and Archaeology
• TOMIYAMA Naoto

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