YamadaShunsuke-一般社団法人日本考古学協会.PDF

Kofun Period: Research Trends 20131 Yamada Shunsuke2 Introduction 3 Kofun period research of the 2013 FY (Fiscal Year) was sound and replete with progressive investigation reports and academic articles. In what fo ows, the author would like to look back over the trends in Kofun period research of 2013 FY that he was able to learn from the literature. 1. General treatments The monograph Genshi/Kodai 1 (Earliest Period, Ancient Period 1) was published as the first volume of Iwanami kōza Nihon rekishi (Iwanami History of Japan 4 Series). Fukunaga Shin’ya’s chapter on the formation of keyhole tombs reviews the research on this topic, and indicates the author’s own understanding regarding the 5 birth of the Kofun period. Further, he argues for situating Kofun period society in the context of human history, and points out the need for presenting hypotheses that can stand up to comparative examinations with historic examples and research results worldwide. Hishida Tetsuo’s contribution on Kofun period society and its elite takes a meticulous analysis of archaeological phenomena such as settlement and production sites as its base, and assesses Kofun period society with a 1 [Trends in Japanese Archaeological Research, 2013 , is a partial translation of “Nihon kōkogaku kenkyū no dōkō” 日本考古学研究の動向, in Nihon kōkogaku nenpō 66 (2013 nendoban) 日本考古学年報 66(2013 年度版） [Archaeologia Japonica 66 (2013 Fiscal Year Issue)] (Nihon Kōkogaku Kyōkai, 2015), pp. 1-66. This essay appears on pp. 39-45, under the Japanese title “Kofun jidai kenkyū no dōkō” 古墳 時代研究の動向. It was translated by Walter E