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ArticleJournal of the Royal Society, Interface2025

The cultural transmission of Ongagawa style pottery in the prehistoric Japan: quantitative analysis on three-dimensional data of archaeological pottery in the early Yayoi period.

Koji Noshita, Tomomi Nakagawa, Akihiro Kaneda, Kohei Tamura, Hisashi Nakao

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Koji NoshitaDepartment of Biology, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-9510-5897
Tomomi NakagawaAnthropological Institute, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.
Akihiro KanedaNara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Nara, Japan.
Kohei TamuraFrontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
Hisashi NakaoDepartment of Anthropology and Philosophy, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-9441-5108

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2024 Nanzan University Pache Research Subsidy I-A- 2Japan Science and Technology CorporationJapan Society for the Promotion of Science
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Abstract

The present study analysed archaeological pottery in the early Yayoi period of the prehistoric Japanese archipelago, i.e. Ongagawa style pottery, which has been traditionally regarded as an indicator of the spread of rice farming in the archipelago. To this end, we quantified the two- and three-dimensional data of outlines and surfaces of the pottery, based on elliptic Fourier and spherical harmonics analyses, respectively. The results show morphological variation is spatially and temporally structured, consistent with an archaeological view that the pottery style spread via two routes (the Japan Sea route and Setouchi route) with the potential of more complex interactions between the transmission routes. The present study exemplifies a useful quantitative method to theorize cultural evolutionary trajectories of archaeological remains.

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AgricultureArchaeologyCeramicsCultural EvolutionHistory, AncientHumansJapancultural evolutiongeometric morphometricsthree-dimensional dataYayoi

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PMID39965639
PMCPMC11835497

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