Interdisciplinary Study of Archaeological Sciences

1)开发设计遥感现场勘测方法，如采用地下雷达等。我们将比较日本独特的方法和英国的方法。由于我们使用的是相同的设备，所以我们希望开发一种软件，可以不考虑考古遗址的土壤和地质条件，对得到的结果进行分析，使我们能够与其他国家共享得到的数据。2)对考古遗址中发现的动植物遗骸进行鉴定。然后，我们将对人类与个别动植物物种之间的关系进行比较研究。为了达到这个目的，我们将澄清在他的研究中所采用的方法和分析方法的差异。我们将进行的其他相关研究包括设计一种新的方法，利用从动物遗骸中提取的DNA研究来识别动物物种，以及基于对考古遗址采集的土壤样本的分析来重建古环境。树木年代学不应局限于年代学的研究。相反，它应该与气候学、火山学和地震学等学科相结合。这将最终引导我们重建东亚的古气候。我们还计划设计一个联合项目，旨在结合我们的树木年代学研究结果，提高亚洲放射性碳定年方法的精度。我们将建立分析和保存考古遗址中发现的有机遗骸的方法。我们将采用物理化学分析来确定非有机材料的组成元素，如粘土和金属，并利用结果来估计这些非有机材料的可能来源。我们还将试图确定长期沉积在土壤中的人工制品和生态事实恶化的因素和过程。这将有可能检查人工制品和生态制品被埋的土壤环境与人工制品和生态制品被挖掘时的条件之间可能存在的相关性。少

1) We will develop and design site surveying methods by remote sensing, such as the adoption of underground radar. We will compare uniquely Japanese methods with British counterparts. Since we use the same equipment, we hope to develop software to analyze the obtained results regardless of the soil and geological conditions of archaeological sites, in order to enable us to share the obtained data with other countries. 2) We will identify faunal and floral remains recovered from archaeological sites. We will then conduct comparative studies of relations between people and individual species of flora and fauna. In order to achieve the goal, we will clarify differences in approaches and analytical methodologies employed to his kind of study. Other related studies we will conduct include designing a new methods of identifying animal species utilizing the studies of DNA extracted from faunal remains and reconstruction of paleo-environment based of analysis of soil samples taken at archaeolo … More gical sites. 3) Dendrochronology should not be limited to chronological investigations. Rather, it should be integrated into disciplines of climatology, volcanology, and seismology. This will eventually lead us to a reconstruction of paleo-climate in East Asia. We are also planning to design a joint project that aims at increasing the precision of radio-carbon dating methods in Asia by combining the results of our dendrochronologial studies. 4) We will establish methods to analyze and preserve organic remains discovered at the archaeological sites. We will adopt physicochemical analysis to determine compositional elements of non-organic materials, such as clay and metal, and utilize the result to estimate possible sources of these non-organic materials. We will also attempt to determine factors and processes involved in the deterioration of artifacts and ecofacts that have been deposited in soil for a long time. This will make it possible to examine possible correlations between the soil environment in which artifacts and ecofacts have been buried and the conditions of artifacts and ecofacts when they are excaveted. Less