Sociedades Antiguas del Mediterráneo y América: aproximaciones desde el Sur, 2021
One of the most notable processes in human history is the social evolution process, by which huma... more One of the most notable processes in human history is the social evolution process, by which humankind went from living mostly in segmentary, egalitarian societies to live in hierarchical, complex ones. In this process several stages can be determined, and one of them is the apparition chiefdom societies, territorial societies with hierarchy and centralized leadership (Earle, 1991). In the case of Japan, its apparition can be seen during the Yayoi era (900 BCE - 250 CE) (Mizoguchi, 2013). In order to examine this process, a crucial source are the settlements. By settlements, we mean the spatial group that includes daily-life environments and funeral contexts, and analyzing the spatial distribution of, and differences between, the dwellings and the diverse facilities, and their change in time, we can understand the contemporaneous social structure and its evolution. The northern area of the Kyushu island, in western Japan, is a key region in order to understand the Yayoi era, having played a leading role in the development of agriculture, metallurgy, and of more developed types of social organization in the Japanese islands (Mizoguchi, 2013). In this paper, we analyze as a case-study the site of Hie-Naka, in the center of the Fukuoka plains in northern Kyushu, and its surroundings during the Yayoi era, from the archaeological excavations reports published between 1980 and 2015. This site is one of the biggest settlements of the region during the period, and by realizing a period-by-period reconstruction of it and the smaller, nearby sites, together with the typology of cemeteries made by Mizoguchi (2001, 2008) and the studies of the other two central settlements of the region, Itazuke (Yamazaki, 2008) and Sugu-Okamoto (Kusumi, 2000), we will try to reconstruct the period’s social structure and its dynamic. As a result, we see that from the Middle Yayoi period, in the study region there are multiple residential groups with different degrees of elite elements. In this way, it can be seen a certain degree of social hierarchization, which is still fluid and unstable but is also clearly confined to an increasing degree to a diminishing part of the population during the Late Yayoi period, showing the evolution towards a stratified society.
Sociedades Antiguas del Mediterráneo y América: aproximaciones desde el Sur, 2021
One of the most notable processes in human history is the social evolution process, by which huma... more One of the most notable processes in human history is the social evolution process, by which humankind went from living mostly in segmentary, egalitarian societies to live in hierarchical, complex ones. In this process several stages can be determined, and one of them is the apparition chiefdom societies, territorial societies with hierarchy and centralized leadership (Earle, 1991). In the case of Japan, its apparition can be seen during the Yayoi era (900 BCE - 250 CE) (Mizoguchi, 2013). In order to examine this process, a crucial source are the settlements. By settlements, we mean the spatial group that includes daily-life environments and funeral contexts, and analyzing the spatial distribution of, and differences between, the dwellings and the diverse facilities, and their change in time, we can understand the contemporaneous social structure and its evolution. The northern area of the Kyushu island, in western Japan, is a key region in order to understand the Yayoi era, having played a leading role in the development of agriculture, metallurgy, and of more developed types of social organization in the Japanese islands (Mizoguchi, 2013). In this paper, we analyze as a case-study the site of Hie-Naka, in the center of the Fukuoka plains in northern Kyushu, and its surroundings during the Yayoi era, from the archaeological excavations reports published between 1980 and 2015. This site is one of the biggest settlements of the region during the period, and by realizing a period-by-period reconstruction of it and the smaller, nearby sites, together with the typology of cemeteries made by Mizoguchi (2001, 2008) and the studies of the other two central settlements of the region, Itazuke (Yamazaki, 2008) and Sugu-Okamoto (Kusumi, 2000), we will try to reconstruct the period’s social structure and its dynamic. As a result, we see that from the Middle Yayoi period, in the study region there are multiple residential groups with different degrees of elite elements. In this way, it can be seen a certain degree of social hierarchization, which is still fluid and unstable but is also clearly confined to an increasing degree to a diminishing part of the population during the Late Yayoi period, showing the evolution towards a stratified society.
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In order to examine this process, a crucial source are the settlements. By settlements, we mean the spatial group that includes daily-life environments and funeral contexts, and analyzing the spatial distribution of, and differences between, the dwellings and the diverse facilities, and their change in time, we can understand the contemporaneous social structure and its evolution.
The northern area of the Kyushu island, in western Japan, is a key region in order to understand the Yayoi era, having played a leading role in the development of agriculture, metallurgy, and of more developed types of social organization in the Japanese islands (Mizoguchi, 2013).
In this paper, we analyze as a case-study the site of Hie-Naka, in the center of the Fukuoka plains in northern Kyushu, and its surroundings during the Yayoi era, from the archaeological excavations reports published between 1980 and 2015. This site is one of the biggest settlements of the region during the period, and by realizing a period-by-period reconstruction of it and the smaller, nearby sites, together with the typology of cemeteries made by Mizoguchi (2001, 2008) and the studies of the other two central settlements of the region, Itazuke (Yamazaki, 2008) and Sugu-Okamoto (Kusumi, 2000), we will try to reconstruct the period’s social structure and its dynamic.
As a result, we see that from the Middle Yayoi period, in the study region there are multiple residential groups with different degrees of elite elements. In this way, it can be seen a certain degree of social hierarchization, which is still fluid and unstable but is also clearly confined to an increasing degree to a diminishing part of the population during the Late Yayoi period, showing the evolution towards a stratified society.
この過程を検証するため,人々の生活の総体的な場である集落は有意義な資料となる。その分析を通じて,当時の格差の存在や成層性等の社会構造を読み取ることができる。
当論文では,ケーススターディとして,弥生時代を通じて先進的な地域であった北部九州において特に大規模な集落であった比恵・那珂遺跡群及びその周辺の小・中遺跡を取り上げ,綿密な時期毎の復元を行った上で,それらの構造と相対的動態から福岡平野中央部の社会構造と通時的動態の復元を試みる。
結果として、弥生時代中期以降、大規模な中心地をなした比恵・那珂遺跡群の中において様々な度合の「エリート性」を持った集団の補足的な動態を読み取ることができた。こうして、流動で不安定な成層性が認められ、その成層性は弥生時代後期を通じてより限定的になることが明らかとなった。
In order to examine this process, a crucial source are the settlements. By settlements, we mean the spatial group that includes daily-life environments and funeral contexts, and analyzing the spatial distribution of, and differences between, the dwellings and the diverse facilities, and their change in time, we can understand the contemporaneous social structure and its evolution.
The northern area of the Kyushu island, in western Japan, is a key region in order to understand the Yayoi era, having played a leading role in the development of agriculture, metallurgy, and of more developed types of social organization in the Japanese islands (Mizoguchi, 2013).
In this paper, we analyze as a case-study the site of Hie-Naka, in the center of the Fukuoka plains in northern Kyushu, and its surroundings during the Yayoi era, from the archaeological excavations reports published between 1980 and 2015. This site is one of the biggest settlements of the region during the period, and by realizing a period-by-period reconstruction of it and the smaller, nearby sites, together with the typology of cemeteries made by Mizoguchi (2001, 2008) and the studies of the other two central settlements of the region, Itazuke (Yamazaki, 2008) and Sugu-Okamoto (Kusumi, 2000), we will try to reconstruct the period’s social structure and its dynamic.
As a result, we see that from the Middle Yayoi period, in the study region there are multiple residential groups with different degrees of elite elements. In this way, it can be seen a certain degree of social hierarchization, which is still fluid and unstable but is also clearly confined to an increasing degree to a diminishing part of the population during the Late Yayoi period, showing the evolution towards a stratified society.
この過程を検証するため,人々の生活の総体的な場である集落は有意義な資料となる。その分析を通じて,当時の格差の存在や成層性等の社会構造を読み取ることができる。
当論文では,ケーススターディとして,弥生時代を通じて先進的な地域であった北部九州において特に大規模な集落であった比恵・那珂遺跡群及びその周辺の小・中遺跡を取り上げ,綿密な時期毎の復元を行った上で,それらの構造と相対的動態から福岡平野中央部の社会構造と通時的動態の復元を試みる。
結果として、弥生時代中期以降、大規模な中心地をなした比恵・那珂遺跡群の中において様々な度合の「エリート性」を持った集団の補足的な動態を読み取ることができた。こうして、流動で不安定な成層性が認められ、その成層性は弥生時代後期を通じてより限定的になることが明らかとなった。