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Changing relationship between the dead and the living in Japanese prehistory Invited Reviewed

Naoko Matsumoto

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 373 ( 1754 ) 20170272 - 20170272 2018.9

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：The Royal Society

The aim of this paper is to propose a new insight on the changing burial practice by regarding it as a part of the cognitive system for maintaining complex social relationships. Development of concentrated burials and their transformation in Japanese prehistory are examined to present a specific case of the changing relationship between the dead and the living to highlight the significance of the dead in sociocultural evolution. The essential feature of the burial practices observed at Jomon sites is the centrality of the dead and their continuous presence in the kinship system. The mortuary practices discussed in this paper represent a close relationship between the dead and the living in the non-hierarchical complex society, in which the dead were not detached from the society, but kept at its core, as a materialized reference of kin networks. This article is part of the theme issue 'Evolutionary thanatology: impacts of the dead on the living in humans and other animals'.

DOI： 10.1098/rstb.2017.0272

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Japan: The Earliest Evidence of Complex Technology for Creating Durable Coloured Goods Invited Reviewed

Naoko Matsumoto

Open Archaeology 4 ( 1 ) 206 - 216 2018.1

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：De Gruyter Open Ltd

The invention of lacquer technology is significant in history as the first evidence of the use of an organic substance in creating durable coloured objects. By focusing on the evidence from the Jomon Period, Japan, this article clarifies the nature of complex technology and knowledge required for lacquer production, presents how lacquer technology enhanced our creative ability, and discusses its significance in human history. Lacquer technology was invented in the course of increasing human-plant interaction in the warming climate of the early Holocene. Personal ornaments coated with red lacquer are the most conspicuous throughout the Jomon Period from the beginning of lacquer technology. Strong attention to colour and intensive application on personal ornaments indicate that the creation of symbolic artefacts in social context was at the core of Jomon lacquer technology.

DOI： 10.1515/opar-2018-0013

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Subsistence, sedentism, and social complexity among jomon hunter-gatherers of the japanese archipelago

Naoko Matsumoto, Junko Habu, Akira Matsui

Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology 437 - 450 2017.1

Language：English Publishing type：Part of collection (book) Publisher：Springer New York

Jomon is the name of the prehistoric period and culture on the Japanese Archipelago that follows the Paleolithic Period and precedes the agricultural Yayoi Period. Most scholars agree that the date of the oldest pottery in Japan (ca. 16,000 cal. BP) marks the beginning of the Jomon Period. The end of the Jomon Period is still controversial. In Kyushu, the transition from the Jomon to the Yayoi Period may have occurred as early as 2900-2800 cal. BP, but in northern Honshu, the end of the Jomon Period is likely to have been as late as 2400-2300 cal. BP. Because the Jomon Period lasted for more than 10,000 years, and because the geographic characteristics within the Japanese Archipelago vary significantly, Jomon culture shows marked temporal and spatial variability. This chapter reviews recent developments in Jomon archaeology with an emphasis on two different Jomon cultural trajectories in eastern and western Japan from the Initial to Final Jomon Periods. We conclude that Jomon archaeology is moving forward from a phase of data accumulation based on the results of a large number of rescue excavations to one of data organization and interpretation. New lines of archaeological evidence, including results of chemical and scientific analyses, can help archaeologists tackle key questions that still remain unanswered.

DOI： 10.1007/978-1-4939-6521-2_27

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The position of warfare in Human history

Naoko Matsumoto

2017年 ( 6月 ) 162 - 174 2017

Violence and warfare in prehistoric Japan

Tomoni Nakagawa, Hisashi Nakao, Kohei Tamura, Yui Arimatsu, Naoko Matsumoto, Takehiko Matsugi

Letters on Evolutionary and Behavioral Science 8 ( 1 ) 8 - 11 2017

Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：Human Behavior and Evolution Society of Japan

The origins and consequences of warfare or large-scale intergroup violence have been subject of long debate. Based on exhaustive surveys of skeletal remains for prehistoric hunter-gatherers and agriculturists in Japan, the present study examines levels of inferred violence and their implications for two evolutionary models, which ground warfare in parochial altruism versus subsistence. The former assumes that frequent warfare played an important role in the evolution of altruism, while the latter sees warfare as promoted by social changes induced by agriculture. Our results are inconsistent with the parochial altruism model but consistent with the subsistence model, although the mortality values attributable to violence between hunter-gatherers and agriculturists were comparable.

DOI： 10.5178/lebs.2017.55

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人類史における戦争の位置づけ

松本直子

現代思想 2017年 ( 6月 ) 162 - 174 2017

遠賀川式土器の楕円フーリエ解析

田村光平, 有松唯, 山口雄治, 松本直子

文化進化の考古学 35 - 62 2017

Violence in the prehistoric period of Japan: the spatio-temporal pattern of skeletal evidence for violence in the Jomon period (vol 12, 20160028, 2016)

Hisashi Nakao, Kohei Tamura, Yui Arimatsu, Tomomi Nakagawa, Naoko Matsumoto, Takehiko Matsugi

BIOLOGY LETTERS 12 ( 11 ) 2016.11

Bird's eye view on the symbolic meaning of prehistoric personal ornaments and its change

Naoko Matsumoto

( 2 ) 1 - 8 2016.7

Violence in the prehistoric period of Japan: the spatio-temporal pattern of skeletal evidence for violence in the Jomon period Reviewed

Hisashi Nakao, Kohei Tamura, Yui Arimatsu, Tomomi Nakagawa, Naoko Matsumoto, Takehiko Matsugi

BIOLOGY LETTERS 12 ( 3 ) 2016.3

Language：English Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal) Publisher：ROYAL SOC

Whether man is predisposed to lethal violence, ranging from homicide to warfare, and how that may have impacted human evolution, are among the most controversial topics of debate on human evolution. Although recent studies on the evolution of warfare have been based on various archaeological and ethnographic data, they have reported mixed results: it is unclearwhether or not warfare among prehistoric hunter-gatherers was common enough to be a component of human nature and a selective pressure for the evolution of human behaviour. This paper reports the mortality attributable to violence, and the spatio-temporal pattern of violence thus shown among ancient hunter-gatherers using skeletal evidence in prehistoric Japan (the Jomon period: 13 000 cal BC-800 cal BC). Our results suggest that the mortality due to violence was low and spatio-temporally highly restricted in the Jomon period, which implies that violence including warfare in prehistoric Japan was not common.

DOI： 10.1098/rsbl.2016.0028

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Cultural and Genetic Transmission in the Jomon-Yayoi Transition Examined in an Agent-Based Demographic Simulation Invited Reviewed

Naoko Matsumoto, Mariko Sasakura

SIMULATING PREHISTORIC AND ANCIENT WORLDS 311 - 334 2016

新人・旧人の認知能力をさぐる考古学

松本直子

ホモサピエンスと旧人３ヒトと文化の交替劇、六一書房 140 - 150 2015

Cultural change from the Jomon to Yayoi

Naoko Matsumoto

Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals 3: Replacement of people and culture 110 - 123 2015

Archaeological approach to the cognitive ability of Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals

Naoko Matsumoto

Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals 3: Replacement of people and culture 140 - 150 2015

縄文から弥生への文化変化

松本直子

ホモサピエンスと旧人３ヒトと文化の交替劇、六一書房 110 - 123 2015

「芸術」はどのような状況で生まれるのか―考古学的検討―

松本直子

文部科学省科学研究費補助金（新学術領域研究）2010～2014「交替劇」（ネアンデルタールとサピエンス交替劇の真相：学習能力の進化に基づく実証的研究）A−02班研究報告書 No.4 13 - 16 2014

How art was born: an archaeological study

Naoko Matsumoto

13 - 16 2014

Learning of Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens as seen from cognitive archaeology

Homo Sapiens and Neanderthals: Archaeological study on learning 123 - 134 2014

認知考古学からみた新人・旧人の学習

ホモサピエンスと旧人２考古学からみた学習 123 - 134 2014

Flip Visualization for Web Based Demographic Simulation System. Reviewed

Mariko Sasakura, Kenichi Iwata, Naoko Matsumoto

18th International Conference on Information Visualisation(IV) 120 - 124 2014

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