STUDY OF MEDIEVAL SOCIAL HISTORY IN HOKURIKU FROM ARCHAEOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW

社会被认为是被生产的，具有复杂属性的有机关系。每个人看起来都是独立的，但潜在的相互关系揭示了社会的本质。因此，为了分析社会历史，就考古材料而言，我们所要做的就是具体地研究，而不仅仅是城市、城镇、村庄等各种流通或生产系统。一个城堡，一个宗教场所，一个坟墓，还有各种各样的物品。最重要的是，要重新考虑一个中世纪社会，对它进行古代和现代的比较研究是不可避免的。为了使我们的报告取得成果，除了我们项目的调查人员外，我们还邀请了许多合作人员，如在北陆地区实际工作的考古学家和研究考古勘探方法的地球物理学家。本书的特点是既要确定个别现象，又要重建北陆地区的中世纪社会史。特别是迄今为止单独研究的生产流通、聚落、宗教场所三部分，我们试图将其综合起来，使“古代”“历史”成为所谓的“阶梯石”。我们认为这本书不仅是有利于北陆地区历史研究的基础材料，而且是我们能够追踪东亚中世纪日本社会的基本特征。中世纪器物年代学、中世纪城镇年代学等个体描述已经完成，但目前我们正处于通过总体分析来重构社会结构的过程的大门。在邻近的领域，如文献史或民族学，已经研究了社会史，但他们通常是限制部落的历史。从这个意义上说，我们希望这本书今后对日本的各种研究有很大的用处。

Society is said to be produced, having an organic relationship with complicated attributes. Each one seems to be independent, however a potential mutual relationship there reveals the essence of the society. Therefore, in order to analyze the social history, so far as archaeological materials are concerned, all we have to do is study concretely not only various kinds of circulation or production system such as a city, a town, a village.a castle, a religious site, and a tomb, but also various kinds of objects. On top of that, to reconsider an medieval society, a comparative study of it between ancient and modern age would be inevitable. In due conrse, since we tried tomake our report fruitful, other than investigators in our project, we asked many co-operative workers such as an archaeologist who works practically on sites in HOKURIKU district, and geophisists who have studied archaelogical prospecting methods.The characteristic of this book is not only to make sure the individual phenomena but also to reconstruct the medieval social history in HOKURIKU district. Especially three parts such as production and circulation, settlements, and religious sites which have been studied individually so far, do we try to synthesize, in order to make "antiquity" "History", so called "step stone". We think this book is the foundemental materials not only for the benefit of historical study in HOKURIKU district, but also for the essential trait which enables us to trace Japanese medieval society in east Asia.Individual description such as the chronology of medieval ware, and medieval towns have been done so far, however at the moment we are at the gate of procedure of reconstructing social structure with general analysis. In the neighboring field such as documentary history or ethnology, social history has been studied, however they are usually limiting the history of tribe. In this sense, we expect this book is of much use from now on to the various kinds of studies in Japan.