GS19 Study on the Jomon pottery material
Masaaki Matsubara, Kenji Sakamoto, Ryoh KIMURA, Naoya Takahashi · The Proceedings of the Materials and Mechanics Conference · 2011
Transition to the Yayoi period from the Jomon period means change to rice-fanning culture from hunting and gathering culture. It has been supposed that transition of culture was resulted in change of the earthenware style to Yayoi pottery from Jomon pottery. The history of a rice-farming start is going back by archaeological discovery. The transition of culture and the change of an earthenware style are not being in agreement. Present study makes clear that the change of an earthenware style was aimed the strength and toughness increase of Jomon pottery material. For the purpose, we performed 4-point bending and fracture toughness tests on Jomon pottery material imitation.