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

对考古发掘出的人骨、兽骨进行细致的研究，对于我们更好地描绘史前人类的面貌和生活是至关重要的。然而，在日本考古学中，通过对这些遗骸进行科学分析所获得的结果进行适当评估的系统尚未完全建立。社会对古人类骨骼和动物骨骼研究的兴趣，迄今为止似乎还没有很好地成熟。此外，在大学和研究所的骨骼材料的安排，是相当不利的合作研究。因此，日本的骨考古学和动物考古学研究还有待提高，研究能力有待加强。在该研究项目获得批准的三年中，我们与几个考古遗址发掘和保护的区域项目合作进行了公共关系工作，并改进了古代人类骨骼材料的存储系统。实际上，我们每年都组织了一次相当大规模的公众研讨会，即1999年与大坂府池上曾根遗址改善项目合作，2000年与神户市新浦遗址发掘项目合作，2001年与北海道枣园北古根贝壳冢保护项目合作。在这三年里，我们改善了研究工作中人类骨骼收集的环境，并完成了东北大学的人类骨骼收集清单，京都大学，大坂市立大学，此外，我们还尝试了AMS测年、实验考古学、稳定同位素分析等人类和动物骨骼遗骸的试验研究。

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.