CONTENTS
Vol.63 No.4（252）, March 2017
ABSTRACT OF PAPERS TO BE PRESENTED AT THE 63rd ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY
- Theme: Disaster and Archaeology − Sustainability and Discontinuity −
- ISHIMURA Tomo and KIKUCHI Yoshio
- How hunter-gatherer societies coped with volcanic eruptions: Case studies in Kyushu
- KUWAHATA Mitsuhiro
- The Trace of local disaster and researches of buried cultural properties: Before and after of the soil
movement in the northeast part of the Kyoto Basin in Yayoi period
- TOMII Makoto
- Tsunami damage and relocation of the villages in Modern Ryukyu: Focusing on the excavation of
Yasura village site on Ishigaki island
- ISHII Ryōta
- Mesoamerican civilization and volcanic eruptions: Focusing on the eruption of Ilopango volcano
- ICHIKAWA Akira
ARTICLES
- Investigation on the formation and maintenance of a Late Jomon period pottery distribution zone
- FUKUNAGA Masahiro
Abstract: This paper investigates the mechanisms behind the formation of a widescale pottery-style distribution zone during the Late Jomon period by examining the regional variability of the contents of the pottery assemblages. A heuristic assumption is that differences in the contents of the pottery assemblages in terms of the combination of distinct shape-types reflected what intra- and inter-regional/group relations existed just as much as the shape and decoration did. The analysis has revealed that the mechanism that maintained the widescale pottery-style zone changed between the first and second half of the Late Jomon period, and it is suggested that the phenomenon was closely related to the shrinkage of the distribution of pots stylistically originating in the Kanto region.
Keywords: pottery; pottery assemblage; pottery style zone; Late Jomon period; Western Japan.
- The reorganization of settlements and land development in Ancient Kinai
- MICHIGAMI Yoshitake
Abstract: In the Kinai region, settlements of the Kofun period were principally situated on areas of low ground such as alluvial plains. Many of these Kofun period settlements went into decline or were discontinued from the latter half of the sixth century. On the other hand, settlements dating from the latter half of the sixth century on were mainly located on hills or in areas surrounding hills. The decline of low-lying settlements and the increase of those on high ground occurring together are thought to represent a relocation of settlements, and from an examination of actual sites it has become clear that after the discontinuation of settlements, lowland areas were being converted to agricultural land. This relocation of settlements and opening up of farmland in low-lying regions was a phenomenon seen throughout the nation, spreading on an archipelago-wide scale from the seventh into the eighth centuries. This change in settlements began earliest in the Kinai region. As this kind of unified relocation of settlements is difficult to regard as a naturally occurring dynamic, it is seen rather as for the purpose of developing low-lying areas. Further, as chiefly residences were also included in this trend, this was a reorganization of settlements, aimed at the large-scale development of lowland regions, based on a central authority superseding the local chiefs. The agricultural lands that increased due to this development linked up with the jōri land division program of the latter half of the seventh century, becoming the economic foundation of the ancient state. Also, that this policy of settlement regulation began in the latter half of the sixth century is a sign of the central authority’s gain in strength and the establishment of a system of control over outlying regions from that stage, and it may thus be said that social changes which attended the transition from the Kofun to the Ancient periods, such as the cessation of keyhole tomb construction, are visible in the settlements.
Keywords: Kinai region; Kofun period; Asuka period; reorganization of settlements; agricultural land development.
REPORTS, NEWS AND APPEALS
- Special feature: Reviewing the Eighth World Archaeological Congress in Kyoto 2
- State formation and local societies
- TSUJITA Jun’ichiro
- Reconstruction of ancient feeding habits by various analytical sciences
- SHIBUTANI Ayako
- WAC-8 as a starting point
- RYAN Joseph
- Resolutions adopted at WAC-8
- MATSUDA Akira
- Report of observation of archaeology practicum at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University
- KIKUCHI Seiichi
- Report of attendance at the observation of Nobono Tumuli (Nobono-no-haka)
- TAKATA Ken-ichi
- Report of Attendance at the 3rd Resarch and Networking Meeting of the Network for archiving historical documents in Ehime Prefecture
- YOSHIDA Hiroshi
- Remains of modern warfare 2: Current situation of research of war remains in Okinawa Prefecture
- SETO Tetsuya
BOOKS REVIEWS
- KONASUKAWA Ayumu. Social Structure and Principles of the City in the Indus Valley Civilization
- UESUGI Akinori
- YANO ken’ichi. Jomon Societies in Western Japan as Seen from Pottery Chronology
- NAKAMURA Kōsaku
NEW BOOKS
- HIGAMI Noboru. Ancient Lives with Trees: What Wooden Tools tell us about Yayoi and Kofun periods
- NAKAHARA Kei
- MORISHITA Shōji. Ancient History of Kofun: Japan in East Asia
- JITSUMORI Yoshihiko
- SHIMOGAKI Hitoshi. Archives of Unearthed Mirrors in the Japanese Archipelago
- FUKUNIGA Shin‘ya
- KATŌ Masafumi. Castles are disappearing from Japan
- KUSU Hiroki
- EBARA Sumiko. From Product Exhibition Hall to Hiroshima Peace Memorial
- SEO Shūsou
ARCHEO-FOCUS
- Aisako-Umazuka Tumulus, Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture
- KAJIWARA Shinji and TAKAUE Taku (Takamatsu City Board of Education)
- Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Ⅰllinois, U.S.A.
- MIYOSHI Gen
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