Osteoarchaeology Research of Human Skeletal and Animal Bone Remains from Archaeology Excavation.

仔细研究考古出土的人骨遗存和动物骨遗存，对于清晰地描绘史前时期的人类和他们的生活是最重要的。然而，在日本考古学中，对通过对这些遗骸进行科学分析而获得的结果进行适当评估的体系尚未完全建立。迄今为止，社会对古人类骨骼和动物骨骼研究的兴趣似乎还没有很成熟。此外，高校和科研院所的骨骼材料布置也不利于合作研究。因此，日本的骨考古学和动物考古学的研究仍有待发展，研究能力有待组织。在本研究项目获批的三年里，我们与多个地区考古遗址发掘和保护项目合作，开展了公关工作，完善了古人类骨骼材料的储存系统。实际上，我们每年都与大阪府池上原遗址改善项目（1999年）、神户市新浦遗址挖掘项目（2000年）、北海道大阪府北海道大阪府北古根遗址保护项目（2001年）合作，举办规模相当大的公众研讨会。三年来，我们改善了人类骨骼采集的环境，完成了东北大学、京都大学、大阪市大学、大阪大学和九州大学的人类骨骼采集清单，并尝试了利用人类和动物骨骼进行AMS测年、实验考古、稳定同位素分析等测试研究。

It is the most important for depicting clearly the people themselves and their live in prehistoric periods that we closely study the human skeletal remains and animal bone remains which have been unearthed in archaeological contexts. In the Japanese archaeology, however, the system to evaluate properly the results obtained through scientific analyses of such remains has not been fully established. Social interests for the study of ancient human skeletons and animal bones, thus far seem to not have been well matured. Furthermore arrangement of skeletal materials at universities and institutes, is quite bad for the cooperative research. For such reasons, both the osteoarchaeology and zooarchaeology researches in Japan are still to be advanced, and those research abilities should be well organized. In the three years in which this research project has been granted, we have worked for public relations in collaboration with several regional projects for excavation and conservation of archaeology sites, and have improved the storage system of ancient human skeletal materials. Actually we organized a quite big scale of public symposium every year, that is, in collaboration with Osaka Prefecture Ikegami-Sone Site Improvement Project in 1999, with Kobe-city Shinpo Site Excavation Programme in 2000, and with Hokkaido Date-city Kitakogane Shell-mound Conservation Project in 2001, respectively. In the three years, we improved the circumstances around human skeletal collections for research work and completed lists of such collections at Tohoku Univ., Kyoto Univ., Osaka City Univ., Osaka Univ. and Kyushu Univ. In addition, we tried test researches as to AMS dating, experimental archaeology, stable isotope analysis, and so on, using human and animal bone remains.