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A Basic Study of Use-Wear “Polish” on Early Rice Paddy Farming Tools

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2011

Shoh Yamada
Shoh Yamada*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, and formerly of The Commission of Buried Cultural Properties on Campus, Tohoku University, Katahiracho, Sendai, 980 JAPAN
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Abstract

The analysis of use-wear “polish” variation and differences according to rock types contributes to the study of the “polish” formation process. The examination of the polished surface on andesite, rhyolite and a hard variety of slate with the SEM and optical light microscope thows that the polished surfaces are produced by mild wear. This provides a basis for use-wear analysis of stone farming tools made of these rocks, which come from early Japanese rice paddy cultivation contexts.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 267: Symposium J – Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology III , 1992 , 805
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1992

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