标题：From gathering to mining: prehistoric human activities around obsidian sources in Central Japan = Nyersanyag beszerzés a gyűjtéstől a bányászatig: az őskori közösségek tevékenysége az obszidián nyersanyagforrások környezetében Japán középső részén
摘要：The present paper discusses changes in obsidian procurement activities and circulation systems between the Upper Palaeolithic and the Jomon Periods. The obsidian source distribution in the Japanese Islands and obsidian provenance analysis in archaeology are overviewed as backgrounds of the study. The archaeological record from the Central Highlands obsidian source area in central Japan suggests that distinct changes in prehistoric human activities and social relations with regard to the obsidian source exploitation occurred. Chief among these were changes 1) in site distribution patterns in and around the Central Highlands, 2) from the gathering of obsidian exposed on the ground surface to the mining of obsidian from underground deposits, 3) from various types of landscape use around the source area to specialized landscape use in mining activities, and 4) from obsidian circulation systems dependent on procurement with high transport costs, which was basically embedded in mobility strategies, to exchange systems with low transport costs based on mining and sophisticated social relations
