著者

早川 由紀夫 中村 賢太郎 藤根 久 中村 賢太郎 ナカムラ ケンタロウ Nakamura Kentaro 藤根 久 フジネ ヒサシ Fujine Hisashi 伊藤 茂 イトウ シゲル Ito Shigeru 廣田 正史 ヒロタ マサシ Hirota Masashi 小林 紘一 コバヤシ コウイチ Kobayashi Koichi

出版者

群馬大学教育学部

雑誌

群馬大学教育学部紀要. 自然科学編 = Science reports of the Faculty of Education, Gunma University (ISSN:00175668)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.63, pp.35-39, 2015

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Radiocarbon wiggle matching method was applied for precise dating of a tephra which was designated asone of the important key beds for archaeology. The FA tephra is a pyroclastic deposit from the Shibukawaeruption of Haruna Volcano during the Kofun period of Japan. The age of FA has been investigated usingarchaeological remains and also historical records of Japan and China. It has been estimated roughly as early6th century. Three tumbled logs were found being buried in the tephra whose thickness was about 4 m. Thelogs were cut in many groups with five tree rings and every two groups were sampled for C measurement. Asthese trees were thought to have the same age from the occurrence,all data were used for wiggle matchinganalysis. The age of the outermost tree ring group is determined as AD 491-500(AD 497/+3/-6).

著者

ADACHI Noboru SAWADA Junmei YONEDA Minoru KOBAYASHI Koichi ITOH Shigeru

出版者

日本人類学会

雑誌

Anthropological science : journal of the Anthropological Society of Nippon (ISSN:09187960)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.121, no.2, pp.137-143, 2013-08-01

参考文献数

37

被引用文献数

19

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Obtaining genetic information about early humans is indispensable to our understanding of the demographic history of mankind. In the present study, we performed a detailed mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis of a skeleton of the initial Jomon era unearthed from the Yugura cave site in Nagano, Japan, which was dated to 7920–7795 calBP by direct ¹⁴C dating. mtDNA of the Yugura skeleton was designated to haplogroup D4b2, which is widely observed in present-day East Asians, including the Japanese, but is absent in Hokkaido Jomon people. This finding indicates that the basal population of Japan was heterogeneous with respect to their mtDNA lineage. This is the first report on the genotype of the people from the initial phase of the Jomon period.