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

仔细研究考古背景下出土的人类骨骼遗骸和动物骨骼遗骸，对于清楚地描绘史前时期的人类本身和他们的生活是至关重要的。然而，在日本考古学中，对通过科学分析这类遗骸获得的结果进行适当评估的系统还没有完全建立起来。到目前为止，社会对研究古代人类骨骼和动物骨骼的兴趣似乎还没有完全成熟。此外，高校和科研院所的骨骼材料安排也不利于合作研究。因此，日本的骨考古学和动物考古学的研究都还处于领先地位，研究能力应该得到很好的组织。在这项研究项目获得批准的三年里，我们与几个考古遗址挖掘和保护区域项目合作开展了公关工作，并改进了古人类骨骼材料的存储系统。事实上，我们每年都组织了相当大规模的公开研讨会，即分别在1999年与大阪府池田遗址改造项目合作，在2000年与神户新浦遗址发掘项目合作，在2001年与北海道枣城北高根贝丘保护项目合作。在这三年中，我们改善了用于研究工作的人体骨骼收藏的情况，并在东北大学、京都大学、大阪城市大学、大阪大学完成了这类收藏品的清单。和九州大学。此外，我们还尝试了利用人和动物的骨骼遗骸进行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.