Interdisciplinary research on the historical development of social inequality using human remains from the Kofun period

About This Project

Japan Grant Number
JP18K12554 (JGN)
Funding Program
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Funding Organization
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Kakenhi Information

Project/Area Number
18K12554
Research Category
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
Allocation Type
  • Multi-year Fund
Review Section / Research Field
  • Basic Section 03050:Archaeology-related
Research Institution
  • Kyushu University
Project Period (FY)
2019-02-01 〜 2024-03-31
Project Status
Completed
Budget Amount*help
4,030,000 Yen (Direct Cost: 3,100,000 Yen Indirect Cost: 930,000 Yen)

Research Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of widening social inequality on the diversity of human physical activity and to clarify its historical development process, using musculoskeletal stress markers. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, the research plan was slightly modified to examine the period before and after the Kofun period. There are two accomplishments of the study, The first is that the MSMs pattern differs between the samurai and the townspeople of the Edo period, indicating that the "aristocratization" of the samurai progressed as the reign of the Tokugawa; the second is that the regional characteristics of the facial traits of the northern Kyushu region of the Yayoi period, which until now had been considered homogeneous and high facial features, were examined and revealed to be increased in the variation of traits.

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