Using x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRF) to analyse the chemical composition of Jomon dogu figurines and pottery vessels and their fragments, we are determining and comparing the type of clay used in their production, and the subsequent distribution of pottery and figurines away from the clay sources and centres of object production. We are undertaking scientific analyses of the chemical composition of ceramic fragments to determine the type of clay used. Our focus is the network of connections based on the distribution of Jomon figurine fragments, pottery vessels and their fragments, and the clay sources used in their manufacture.
The aim of the project is to investigate connections between communities and individuals through tracing the sourcing and movement of material culture in the landscape. The project is conducted in collaboration with Khakass Research Institute of Language, Literature and History, Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.Ĭonnecting the Landscape/Materiality of Substance: an international collaborative project led and directed by Dr Liliana Janik (University of Cambridge) and Dr Naoko Matsumoto (Okayama University, Japan) in association with the Centre for Archaeology and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures (Norwich, UK). Reclaiming the landscape: spiritual potency in the post-Soviet landscape of Siberia: the aim of this project is to look at the way symbolic values are given back to the landscape by indigenous populations of Siberia in the post-Soviet era through focusing on the role archaeological sites/rock art sites play in reclaiming the ritual and secret potency of natural forms and culturally signified parts of the landscape. I am presently involved in the following research projects: I work in Eurasia, in particular central, northern and southern Russia, and Japan, concentrating on prehistoric visual vocabularies in legitimising the present and contesting the established status quo. My theoretical framework is based on a pragmatic approach to material culture, landscape and heritage (with a focus, among others, on neuroaesthetics, actor-network theory, performativity and feminist critiques of art historical approaches to visual culture and post-colonial theory). 300 BCE in the Japanese archipelago during the Jomon period. The focus of Dr Janik’s third research project is the provenience of clay as a material used to construct Jomon dogu figurines in Japan, and how the Jomon visual vocabulary is used by contemporary artists. She is recording and analysing the role rock art and its landscape played in the lives of prehistoric fisher-gatherer-hunters, and the contemporary use of rock art by indigenous and local populations as a part of their heritage and religion. Both areas are linked by investigating the creative aspects of the human occupation of the landscape, in particular rock art. Her second research project focuses on two areas of Russia: Karelia (eastern Fennoscandia) and Khakassia (southern Siberia). She leads research projects in Japan and Russia.ĭr Janik is currently engaged in a heritage field project in Northern and Southern Siberia looking at the use of archaeological sites, including rock art, by contemporary communities in the construction of their identities in the process of their re-inhabiting the landscape, in particular through the creation of spiritual links between the physical landscape and religious expression. Dr Liliana Janik is Assistant Director of Research in the Department of Archaeology, Deputy Director of the Cambridge Heritage Research Centre, and Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge.
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