


Kazuo MIYAMOTO | Last modified date:2022.11.07 |

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http://www.lit.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~kouko/
Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Humanities .
Phone
092-802-5056
Fax
092-802-5056
Academic Degree
Doctor(Literature)
Country of degree conferring institution (Overseas)
No
Field of Specialization
East Asian Archaeology
Total Priod of education and research career in the foreign country
02years06months
Outline Activities
I research the comparative study of state formation process in East Asia. And I research the origin of bronzes in China and the spread of early agriculture in North-Eastern Asia through the field work in China and Russian Far East. I also research cultural interaction of prehistoric times between southern Korea and northern Kyushu of Japan through the excavation at Iki or Tsushim Island. In this context, I have conducted field work in various parts of China, Mongolia, the Russian Far East, and Japan. From 2008 to 2010 I led a Sino-Japanese joint excavation project concentrating on the stone-cist graves on the eastern rim of the Tibetan Plateau. At present, I’m involved in a new Mongolian-Japanese joint excavation project working on the Bronze Age stone-slab graves of Outer Mongolia.
Research
Research Interests
- I research the comparative study of state formation process in East Asia. And I research the origin of bronzes in China and the spread of early agriculture in North-Eastern Asia through the field work in China and Russian Far East. I also research the cultural interaction of prehistoric times between southern Korea and northern Kyushu of Japan through the excavation at Iki or Tsushim Island.
keyword : Archaeology, East Asia, State formation process, Bronzes, Early agriculture
1984.04~2009.08.
Books
Reports
Papers
1. | Kazuo Miyamoto, Prehistoric cairns and dolmens in Manchuria (China), Megaliths of the World, 641-661, Ⅱ, 2022.09. |
2. | The Emergence of Early Iron Age in the Korean Peninsula. |
3. | Miyamoto Kazuo, The emergence of ‘Transeurasian’ language families in Northeast Asia as viewed from archaeological evidence, Evolutionary Human Sciences, 10.1017/ehs.2021.49, 4, 1-17, 2022.02, [URL]. ![]() |
4. | Kazuo Miyamoto, Decarbonizing technique for casting iron to make wrought iron products in northern Kyushu during the Yayoi period, Archaeometallurgy, 25-30, 2020.05, Iron furnaces first appeared in western Japan at the end of the Middle Yayoi period, around the 1st century BC. At the same time, iron tools and weapons started to be produced in western Japan using iron raw materials imported from the continent. We discovered the first ever iron furnace that had been constructed on the surface with a clay wall and bellows at Karakami Site, Iki Island, Nagasaki Prefecture. At this site, flat iron and fragments of casting iron were found along with a large quantity of stone tools related to the site. Given the different structure of the furnace on the surface with the bellows along with the lack of iron slag and cut iron fragments, it is probable that this type of furnace was used for the production of wrought iron by decarbonizing from cast iron. This decarbonizing technique of making wrought iron from cast iron has been successfully demonstrated through experimental archeology. When comparing the forms of flat iron found in northern Kyushu during the Yayoi period, the same forms of flat iron are only found in the Itoshima area or lower Onga River area, but not in the Fukuoka Plains. In addition, pottery from the Itoshima area and lower Onga River area of the Middle Yayoi period is found at Karakami Site, although pottery from the Fukuoka Plains has not been found at this site through petrologic analysis. Therefore, it is believed that flat iron from wrought iron ingots produced by decarbonizing from cast iron in furnaces on the surface was exported from Karakami Site to the Itoshima area or the lower Ongagawa area. On the other hand, there was no trading of wrought iron ingots between Karakami Site of Iki Island and the Na area of the Fukuoka Plains.. |
5. | International Trading in the latter half of the Yayoi period viewed from the Liaodong-Shandong pottery and Lelang pottery. |
6. | The Yan State's Eastward Territorial Expansion during the Eastern Zhou Dynasty. |
7. | Kazuo Miyamoto, The spread of rice agriculture during the Yayoi period: From the Shandong Peninsula to Japanese Archipelago via Korean Peninsula, Japanese Journal of Archaeology, Vol.6, No.2, 109-124, 2019.03, 中国大陸から朝鮮半島さらに日本列島への稲作農耕の広がりについて、温帯ジャポニカの出現地の推定とともに、熱帯ジャポニカの伝播からさらに温帯ジャポニカが東北アジアへ広がる過程を明らかにした。特に、日本列島には、まず熱帯ジャポニカが流入し、さらには温帯ジャポニカが遅れて流入したことを明らかにした。. ![]() |
8. | A New Discussion of the Actual Date of the Beginning of the Yayoi Period. |
9. | Changing process of the burial system in the Bronze Age of Mongolian Plateau: focused on burials in the Kheregsuur Culture . ![]() |
10. | Prehistoric Research in the Liaodong Peninsula by Japanese Researchers in the Colonial Era and Current Days: the Reserch by the Far Eastern Archeological Society. ![]() |
11. | Blacksmithing and Trade in Yayoi Period Northen Kyushu: A Case Study of the Karakami Site. |
12. | Kazuo MIYAMOTO, The Beginnings of Modern Archeology in Japan and Japanese Archaeology before World War Ⅱ, Japanese Journal of Archaeology , 4, 2, 157-164, 2017.03. |
13. | Kazuo MIYAMOTO, Archeological Explanation for the Diffusion Theory of the Japonic and Koreanic Languages, Japanese Journal of Archaeology, 4, 1, 53-75, 2016.08. |
14. | Several Issues about the Beginning of Iron Product in China. |
15. | Kazuo MIYAMOTO, The Initial Spread of Agriculture into Northeast Asia, Asian Archaeology, Vol.3 , 11-26, 2015.05. ![]() |
16. | Kazuo MIYAMOTO, The Emergence and Chronology of Early Bronzes on the Eastern Rim of the Tibetan Plateau, 79-88, BAR International Series 2679, 2014.11. |
17. | The origin and the development process of bronze bells in Earlitou culture of China. |
18. | Kazuo MIYAMOTO, Human Dispersal in the Prehistoric Era in East Asia, 63-84, 2014.03. |
19. | Acculturation and regional relationship focused on the burial system in the transitional time between Jomon and Yayoi. |
20. | The Beginning and Development of the "Lelang" pottery: focused on the Flowerpot form pottery. ![]() |
21. | The Chronology of Bronzes in the western Sichuan province and the western Yunnan province of China. ![]() |
22. | Early agriculture in Korean Paninsula as the original place and Yayoi culture. |
23. | Fuyu and Woju Viewed from an Archaeological Perspective. |
24. | Spread process of early agriculture in Russian Far East. |
25. | A Study on dating of Yayoi Culture through the typology of "Liaoning" type daggers in "Liaodong" District. ![]() |
26. | The Beggning of the Yayoi Culture and Rice Early Agriculture of China and Korean Peninsula . |
27. | Pottery Chronology of the latter half of the Neolithic Age in Southern Far Eastern Russia. |
28. | Change and Social meaning of the Bronze vessels in Erlitou Culture of China. |
29. | Definition of formation process of the early states in China . |
30. | The Social organization of the Yan state and the Liaoxi district in the Western Zhou period through the analysis of the Liulihe cemetery. |
31. | The Regional Difference and the Development Process of the Ordos Bronze Culture. |
32. | Recent Chinese archaeological study in Western countries and Chinese archaeological study in Japan. |
33. | The Chronology of the painted bronze mirror and its meaning. ![]() |
34. | Jomon agriculture and Jomon society. |
35. | The Chronology and the Particularity of Bronze Culture in the Longshan District (Eastern Gansu Province, China). ![]() |
36. | A Re-examination of Han-style Tombs in Vietnam through the Olov Janse Collection (1938-1940). |
37. | The Emergence of the Social Division of Jomon Period in the Seto Inland Sea. |
38. | Huaxia Versus Yi and Di: A New Perspective on Pre-Qin Archaeology. |
39. | Bronze culture of Korea analyzed through the Bronze culture in North-East Asia. |
40. | The Emergence of Agriculture on the Neolithic Korea Peninsula and Jomon Agriculture. |
41. | Kazuo Miyamoto, Formation of Center and Periphery in Ancient China: The Central Plains and the Grate Wall Region, Interaction and Transformation, Vol.1, pp43-72, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan, 2003.12. |
42. | Kazuo Miyamoto, Changes in the Social Structure of the Neolithic Age in the Lower and Middle Yangtze valley, Interaction and Transformation, Vol.2 pp1-33, 2005.03. |
Presentations
Educational


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