Skeleton Iconography
Skeleton Iconography By Tadami Yamada Introduction In 1973, to commemorate the founding of the Anthropology Research Center at the National Museum of Nature and Science, an exhibition called "The History of Japanese Anthropology - Transitions Seen from Bones" was held at the Odakyu Department Store in Tokyo, co-sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and Science and the Asahi Shimbun. It was quite an interesting exhibition for a department store. It displayed a large number of human fossils and skulls that showed the characteristics of each era, excavated from temple graveyards and construction sites. For example, we refer to the "Jomon period" in general, but in fact it was a very long period of about 6,000 years. Therefore...