会誌『考古学研究』

CONTENTS

Vol.70　No.3（279）, December 2023

PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE 69th ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY: THE MEANING OF THE INHERITING AND TRANSITIONING OF THINGS: Considering spheres of distribution, Part 2

LECTURE

• The creation and development of widely distributed pottery types in the Yayoi period
• ISHIKAWA Hideshi
  Abstract: Research on the Jōmon and Yayoi periods has established numerous pottery types (styles) that form the basis of each culture’s relative chronology and allow for the assessment of regionality within each culture. However, examination of the formation and development of Yayoi period pottery types shows that it was quite different from that of Jōmon pottery types. The author observes a phenomenon in which multiple pottery types are mixed or fused together to form a new type in a relatively small area, after which the distribution area of the type rapidly expands. The author refers to this phenomenon as the widespread distribution pattern of pottery types. As case examples, the author discusses three pottery types: the Kuribayashi type of the Central Highlands during the Middle Yayoi period; the Komatsu type of the Hokuriku region; and the Ongagawa type of Western Japan during the Early Yayoi period. The author considers why such a phenomenon occurs. For each of these three pottery types, the expansion of their distribution area is accompanied by full-scale irrigated rice agriculture, concentrated settlements and moated settlements, new mortuary systems, and specialty products (as well as their distribution). The author concludes that these cultural elements and their socio-cultural systems constituted a package through which newly formed pottery types, created through admixture and fusion, expanded their distribution area.

  Keywords: Yayoi period; pottery types; distribution; irrigated rice agriculture; socio-cultural system

PAPERS

• The nature and background of the widespread distribution of microblade assemblages on Paleo-Honshū Island
• TAKAKURA Jun
  Abstract: Recent archaeological evidence has revealed that microblade technology emerged in various regions of Northeast Asia, including Northern China, the Korean Peninsula, and the Paleo-Hokkaidō Peninsula, during the initial stage of MIS2. This predates the appearance of microblade assemblages on Paleo-Honshū Island, and it is evident that this technology was introduced into Paleo-Honshū Island after 21 cal. ka. This paper discusses archaeological materials that reflect the distribution hierarchy, transcending the domain of everyday life. Our focus is on the microblade assemblages discovered on Paleo-Honshū Island. It is notable that the microblade assemblages here appeared during a period of presumed population decline, reflected in the intermittent distribution of sites. The characteristics of microblade technology and the composition of lithic tool types on Paleo-Honshū Island exhibit distribution patterns at various scales. In particular, the widespread distribution of microblades seems to show that morphological uniformity was triggered by the spread of the pressure knapping technique from the Eurasian continent. To interpret the hierarchical nature of the distribution, the author clarifies the importance of exploring the relationship between the contact and coexistence of lithic knappers and the transmission of information about stone tools.

  Keywords: microblades; widespread distribution; pressure knapping technique; cultural transmission; Paleo-Honshū Island
• The formation process of Sue ware distribution spheres and interconnection seen in typological change during the Kofun period
• MATSUNAGA Yoshie
  Abstract: This paper examines the widespread distribution, typological uniformity, and interconnection between ceramic form and type composition that characterizes the Sue ware of the Kofun period. The author compares how the type composition of ceramics from the Suemura kiln site and regional kilns changes over time, with a focus on compositional change in the settlement sites and mounded tombs where they were used. Analyzing the production trends of early regional kilns and the composition of ceramics used in both settlement sites and mounded tombs, the author notes that an increase in the usage of lidded bowls (futatsuki), which had showed limited production at regional kilns, triggered a shift from the early Sue ware of regional kilns to the Sue ware of the Suemura kiln site. Furthermore, a comparison with mounded tomb artifacts from the Korean peninsula during the Three Kingdoms period shows that the basic combination of lidded bowls (futatsuki) and pedestaled bowls (takatsuki) was a tradition unique to the Japanese archipelago; the author considers the growing demand for the use of these wares at mounded tombs and settlements to be a reason behind the widespread distribution of Sue ware ceramics and the interconnectedness of their types.

  Keywords: Sue ware; Suemura kiln site; early Sue ware regional kilns; lidded bowls (futatsuki); Kofun funerary wares

ARTICLES

• Changes in imperial tomb regulatory signs and their significance
• TATSUMI Shunsuke
  Abstract: Utilizing various historical materials, I examined changes in wording, shape, and installation position of regulatory signs installed near the places of worship of imperial mausolea from the Edo period, when they first appeared, to the present day. As a result, significant differences were found between the Edo period and the Meiji and subsequent periods. While signs were targeted at local residents during the Edo period, they became directed at domestic and foreign visitors after the Meiji period. Regulatory signs were installed by the Meiji government as a structure to visually indicate the unbroken imperial lineage of the imperial clan and to contribute to the majesty of the imperial mausolea.

  Keywords: imperial tombs; regulatory signs; the emperor; imperial tomb maintenance; unbroken imperial lineage

RESEARCH NOTES

• Dating of the bent-leg clay figurine from the Nasunahara site (Tokyo) according to temporal and spatial diffusion
• KANEKO Akihiko
  Abstract: Many researchers have argued that the bent-leg clay figurine (dogū) from the Nasunahara site (in Tokyo) is associated with the Angyō 3c type ceramic phase (middle Final Jōmon period). However, the stratigraphy of the site does not corroborate that. The author divides the bent-leg clay figurines of the Tōhoku region into three groups (A, AB, and B) based on their temporal and spatial diffusion. It was found that only group A diffused into the Kantō region, including Tokyo, from the Tōhoku region and that it did not last until the middle Final Jōmon period. From this fact, the author refutes the dating of the Nasunahara bent-leg dogū to the Angyō 3c ceramic phase. Due to its similarity to group A clay figurines, it is likely associated with ceramics from the latter part of the Late Jōmon period.

  Keywords: Late and Final Jōmon period; Kantō region; bent-leg clay figurines; temporal and spatial diffusion

REPORTS, NEWS AND APPEALS

• Statement of protest against the lsrael-Gaza war
• Standing Committee of the Society
• A small museum during a big war: A message from Kharkiv, Ukraine
• Iryna Shramko and Stanislav Zadnikov (V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, translated
  　　　by MURAKAMI Yasuyuki)
• On the reliance for buried cultural heritage excavation by local government-affiliated
  organizations: A look at Osaka prefecture
• ICHINOSE Kazuo and KUROSU Akiko

BOOK REVIEWS

• SHIRAISHI Noriyuki. An introduction to Mongolian archaeology
• MIYAKE Toshihiko
• Christopher Gosden (translated by MATSUDA Kazuya). The history of magic: from alchemy to
  witchcraft, from the ice age to the present
• ISHIMURA Tomo

ARCHEO-FOCUS

• Western Prasat Top site, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia
• SATO Yuni
• Excavation of the Yodomizu-tareōshimozu-chō site in Kyoto city, Kyoto prefecture
• Kyoto City Archaeological Research Institute

MESSAGE FROM THE COMMITTEE