Prehistoric Study on Evolutionary Processes of the Lapita People to Polynesians in the South Pacific

南太平洋拉皮塔人向波利尼西亚人进化过程的史前研究

基本信息

批准号：
12371010
负责人：
KATAYAMA Kazumichi
金额：
$ 24.04万
依托单位：
KYOTO UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
财政年份：
2000
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2000 至 2003
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

Aiming to elucidate the population and life of the Lapita people who were the ancestoral group of native inhabitants in the South Pacific area including Polynesians, we intended to advance interdisciplinary researches from the viewpoints of biological anthropology, prehistory, archaeology, ecological anthropology, human genetics, chronology, earth sciences and so on. We carried out several kinds of field work on the Ha'apai islands in Tonga Kingdom, the Savai'i island in Samoa and theMoturiki island in Fiji, collected scientific data related on each investigator's discipline, and analyzed those data in each laboratory vigorously. At the same time, some of us visited several museums and the institutions concerned which are situated in Polynesia and the western coast of South America, and investigated the museum materials to make clearer ancient long-voyaging activities by the Lapita people and ancestral Polynesians. Special mention should be put on the following points. First, our prehi … More story and archaeology group explored a very promising archaeological site on the Moturiki island in Fiji, and excavated lots of Lapita-designed pottery sherds and a human skeletal remains with the Lapita potteries. The skeleton (named 'Mana') was very well preserved especially with the skull, and found to be one of the most intact Lapita-associated skeletons thus fur unearthed. This skeleton was thoroughly investigated in Japan from an anthropological perspective, and based on the investigations, we were successful in its making-face reconstruction firstly in the world. As a result, the anthropological characters of the Lapita people became more detailed, and it was found that they were quite Asiatic in some aspects as well as quite similar to the present Polynesians. Second, our somatometric research demonstrated that Polynesians were very big in their feet and the biggest-foot group, and it was inferred that the character was inherited from the ancestral Lapita people. Third, we materialized test excavations twice on the Savai'i Island in Samoa, collecting of very detailed data at Kauai Island in Tonga to reconstruct ancient fishing activities, and sampling of blood for more than 100 individuals in Tongatapu, Tonga. Of these research results, the making-face reconstruction of the Lapita people should be evaluated as the most important success. Less

为了阐明拉皮塔人的人口和生活，这些人是包括波利尼西亚人在内的南太平洋地区的祖先祖先影响的祖先，我们打算从生物人类学，史前，考古学，考古学，生态人类学，人类遗传学，人类遗传学，年代学，地球科学等的观点来促进跨学科研究。我们在汤加王国的Ha'apai群岛，萨摩亚的萨瓦伊群岛和斐济的Moturiki岛上进行了几项现场工作，收集了与每个研究者的纪律相关的科学数据，并在每个实验室中分析了这些数据。同时，我们中的一些人参观了位于波利尼西亚和南美西部海岸的几个博物馆和有关的机构，并调查了博物馆的材料，以进行更清晰的古老的长期长期探索活动，由Lapita人民和祖先Polynesians进行。特别要提及以下几点。首先，我们的Prehi…更多的故事和考古小组在斐济的Moturiki岛上探索了一个非常有希望的考古遗址，并挖掘了许多拉皮塔设计的陶器棚屋，并带有Lapita Powteries的人类骨骼遗迹。骨骼（命名为“法力”）特别保存得很好，特别是在头骨上，发现是最完整的Lapita相关的骨骼之一，因此发掘了毛皮。从人类学的角度对日本进行了彻底的调查，根据调查，我们成功地重建了世界。结果，拉皮塔人的人类学特征变得更加详尽，发现他们在某些方面是亚洲人，并且与当前的波利尼西亚人非常相似。其次，我们的躯体计量学研究表明，波利尼西亚人的脚和脚最大的群体非常大，可以推断该角色是从祖先的拉皮塔人那里继承的。第三，我们在萨摩亚的Savai'i岛上进行了两次测试发掘，并在汤加的考艾岛收集了非常详细的数据，以重建古老的捕鱼活动，并为100多个在汤加汤加汤加的人抽样。在这些研究结果中，应将Lapita人的脸部重建评估为最重要的成功。较少的