会誌『考古学研究』

CONTENTS

Vol.68　No.4（272）, March 2022

ABSTRACTS OF LECTURE AND PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE 68th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY: THE MEANING OF THE INHERITING AND TRANSITIONING OF THINGS

• THEME
• The meaning of the inheriting and transitioning of things: Considering inheritance chronologically
• IWAMOTO Takashi and NAKAMURA Kousaku
• LECTURE
• Heirloom mirrors and social groups
• MORISHITA Shōji
• PAPERS
• Were things passed down during the Jōmon period?
• OSADA Tomonari
• The long-term possession of beads during the Yayoi and Kofun periods
• TANIZAWA Ari
• Status and the inheritance of things during the Kofun period as seen through corridor-style burial facilities
• ŌTA Hiroaki
• The historical significance of inheritance and the reverting to older styles seen in Shang and Zhou bronzes
• YAMAMOTO Takashi

PAPER PRESENTED AT THE 67th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY: What is power?: The relationship between group and infrastructure, Part 3

• Improvement of living infrastructure during the Jōmon period deduced from the utilization of plant resources
• SASAKI Yuka
  Abstract: When considering the infrastructure of Jōmon society from its use of plant resources, the establishment of management systems for plant resources around settlements such as chestnut forests and the construction of water-use facilities for intensive use of plant resources are two significant features. Transition in the use of plant resources during the Jōmon period occurred in three phases. In phase I, during the Initial and Early Jōmon periods, a selection of plants and characteristic use of plant resources were established. In phase II, during the latter half of the Middle Jōmon period, anthropogenic involvement in plant resources, such as selection of cultigens with large fruits or seeds, became prominent. In phase III, during the Late to Final Jōmon periods, the use of plants became multi-layered to include various plants, and large amounts of specific plants were processed using water-use facilities. In the eastern half of Honshū, management and use of plant resources, mainly chestnuts and lacquer trees, were established around communities that began to settle down in the Initial to Early Jōmon periods, and stable use of plant resources became possible in lowland areas around the early half of the Late Jōmon period, allowing community groups to maintain a stable system of resource utilization.

  Keywords: Lowland sites; Jōmon period; water-use facilities; plant resource utilization; archaeobotany
• General discussion

ARTICLES

• Circulation of stone reaping knives in the Setouchi region during the Middle Yayoi period: An examination of schist stone reaping knives in northwestern Shikoku
• NORIMATSU Shin’ya
  Abstract: Stone reaping knives made of multiple types of stone material were used in the Setouchi region during the Middle Yayoi period. Among these, the subject of this contribution are the schist stone reaping knives distributed in the northwestern portion of Shikoku. By observing finished and unfinished examples excavated from the Bunkyō site, the Akeho site group, and the Hirasaka II site, the manufacturing process for schist stone reaping knives was reconstructed, and it is shown that the process differed depending on the site. Furthermore, the characteristics of the reaping knives produced at three archaeological sites were extracted by focusing on whether polishing was used and where it was applied, the method of drilling the string holes, the presence or absence of gouging, and the stone material. Regarding the latter, it was confirmed from reconnaissance and examining geological maps that the material of the stone reaping knives is consistent with that produced locally on the same plain. Based on the characteristics of the stone reaping knives of each area, their distributions were confirmed, and the ranges of circulation for locally made stone reaping knives were found to extend from the plain where the stone material was produced to more or less the adjacent plains. This situation contrasts with the distribution of stone reaping knives made with sanukite from Kanayama, which circulated widely centered on the central Setouchi region. While schist stone tools were rarely reutilized as other stone tools, the stone reaping knives and flakes of Kanayama sanukite were used as material for flaked stone tools such as stone arrowheads. That stone reaping knives with different patterns of circulation coexisted in the Setouchi region is thought to be due to the fact that both stone material suited for and that not suited for making flaked tools were used for stone reaping knives, and this point may be regarded as a characteristic of the circulation of stone reaping knives in the Setouchi region.

  Keywords: Stone reaping knife; Yayoi period; Setouchi region; schist; circulation
• Social ranking system within the elite class in the Jōsō region of eastern Japan in the Late Kofun period
• TOMITA Tatsuki
  Abstract: A three-tiered social ranking system within the elite class of the Jōsō region (southern Ibaraki and northern Chiba prefectures) and its temporal change may be reconstructed based on mounded tombs as follows.
  　Phase 1 (ca. 480 to 550): High rank – keyhole-shaped mounds exceeding 40 meters in length with a burial facility in the center of the circular rear section of the mound; middle rank – keyhole-shaped mounds more than 30 but less than 40 meters in length, or circular mounds with a burial facility in the center of the mound; low rank – keyhole-shaped mounds less than 30 meters with a burial facility underground, or circular mounds with a burial facility in the center or underground at the foot or center of the mound.
  　Phase 2 (ca. 550 to 580): High – keyhole-shaped mounds more than 40 meters with a burial facility at the foot of the circular rear section or at the joint between the rear and frontal sections of the mound or with a corridor-style burial chamber; semi-high – keyhole-shaped mounds more than 30 but less than 40 meters with a burial facility in the center of the mound or with a corridor-style burial chamber; middle – keyhole-shaped mounds with a burial facility at the foot of the circular rear section or at the joint between the rear and frontal sections of the mound; low – keyhole-shaped mounds with a burial facility underground, or circular mounds with a burial facility underground at the foot of the mound, or circular mounds with a burial facility underground at the foot of the mound.
  　Phase 3 (ca. 580 to 650): High – keyhole-shaped mounds more than 40 meters in length with a corridor-style burial chamber; semi-high – keyhole-shaped mounds more than 30 but less than 40 meters, or circular mounds with a corridor-style burial chamber; middle and low – same features as Phase 2.
  　Phase 4 (ca. 650 to 710): High – circular or square mounds with a corridor-style burial chamber; middle – circular or square mounds with a minor corridor-style burial chamber that evolved from a stone coffin; low – keyhole-shaped mounds with a burial facility underground, or circular mounds with a burial facility underground in the center of the mound.

  Keywords: Social ranking; eastern peripheral region of Japan; mounded tombs; burial chamber; cist

REPORTS, NEWS AND APPEALS

• Concerning the excavation of the site of the proposed soccer stadium in Hiroshima city and the handling of unearthed features
• FUJINO Tsugifumi, ISHIDA Masaharu, SEO Shusou, KIKUCHI Minoru and SUZUKI Yasuyuki
• The traditional calendar beginning with Emperor Jinmu's enthronement and the Shin’yū revolution thesis
• NIIRO Izumi
• Report of attendance at the limited disclosure of Daisen Kofun (alleged mausoleum of Emperor Nintoku)
• KIMURA Osamu and SAWADA Hidemi

NEW BOOKS

• KISHIMOTO Masatoshi. The production and circulation of salt in ancient Japan
• IMAZU Katsunori

ARCHEO-FOCUS

• The Jingtoushan shell midden and Shi'ao rice paddies in Yuyao city, Zhejiang province, China
• NAKAMURA Shin-ichi
• The Tlalancaleca site in Puebla, Mexico
• KABATA Shigeru, MURAKAMI Tatsuya and Julieta LÓPEZ

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