Skeleton Iconography (骸骨の図像学）
Skeleton Iconography, 2019 By Tadami Yamada 山田維史「骸骨の図像学」 ある医療クリニックのカンファレンス・ルームにおける講義原稿 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, if we look at the skulls, the faces of Japanese people have changed quite a bit during tha...