The Reconstruction of Bengala Production Mainly in Kamegaoka Culture
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- 亀ヶ岡文化を中心としたベンガラ生産の復元
Abstract
Bengala (Red iron oxide) production in Jomon Period is understood as far as the crushing and grinding of materials into a powder. What is not understood well is the methods to produce fine and even particles.<BR>There were two methods to produce Bengala from limonite and hematite. Production with established methods partly began in the Upper Paleolithic period.<BR>At the site of Kamegaoka culture, from southern Hokkaido to northern Tohoku, many pieces of hematite were exca-vated. At the Utetsu site, 2, 300 pieces, about 65 kg, of hematite were excavated with many stone implements and pottery pieces with Bengala on their surface.<BR>For this article, I tried a factual reconstruction of Bengala production through analysis of documents related to red pigments and experiments involving pigment production at the Utetsu site.<BR>From the result, I solved the entire process of Bengala production. First, hematite is hit and broken into shalelike part and the part that is like coke. Next, only the coke-like part is crushed and ground. It is levigated with water. The red suspension produced after levigation is boiled and milled in the pottery.<BR>Bengala production by this boiling milling method can make fine and even powder, and it can produce large amounts easily.<BR>The development of the method like the one in this article must be related to increase of the red-colored remains limited to Kamegaoka culture.
Journal
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- Nihon Kokogaku(Journal of the Japanese Archaeological Association)
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Nihon Kokogaku(Journal of the Japanese Archaeological Association) 12 (20), 25-45, 2005
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- 1390282680294614656
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- NII Article ID
- 130003440467
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- ISSN
- 18837026
- 13408488
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- JaLC
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