No.104 Seminar ： Reading Stories Written in Ston
- Atsushi UEMINE (The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research)
- 2015/11/17 4:30pm
- The Hakubi Center for Advanced Research (iCeMS West Wing 2F, Seminar Room)
- Japanese (Slides are in English)
Summary
Stone is knappable. Hominin knapped stones to acquire the sharp edges for cutting at least 3,300,000 years age. Since then, stones have supported the foundation of our material cultures as one of the most familiar resources and the promoter of human revolution. Stone is readable. We lithic archaeologists read everything happens in the life of the stone and trace the primitive’s thought via their visible hands gesture beyond a stone.
In the half century, a stone tool which sparked the controversy over whether the human culture before the peopling of the Japanese archipelago of our ancestor had made archaeologists struggle. Whereas some archaeologists have considered it uncertain or Neolithic artifact, in this summer, the new evidence was obtained. It was identified as the real early palaeolith made by former occupant of Japanese archipelago. Once again, when we reconsider it as itself, what stories can we read in it? What they think? Were they able to move their hands just as they intended or not? In my seamier, I will try to reveal the detail of our last neighbor in the history of Japanese archipelago on the basis of the reading a palaeolith.