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Abstract
The archaeologist appeared in Japanese comics which are one of the contemporary popular cultures at many works. In 1990s, the number of works further increases and the genre is also various. Moreover, it is also the features of Japanese comics of the 1990s that the youth comics of the long-term series in which many archaeological sites and ar-chaeologists appear, and that the number of the girls’ comics in which an archaeologist appears increases. Furthermore, while the middle-aged male of Safari look like before ex-isted in the archaeologist character of this time, many characters similar to an actual ar-chaeologist came to be seen. This distinction has followed the tendency of the archaeolo-gist character of the second half of the 1980s, and can consider the works based on the research of archaeological site spot, and elaboration of character expression, and also ar-chaeologist has recognized in Japan as that background.
要 旨 現代のポピュラー・カルチャー(大衆文化)の一つであるわが国の漫画には、多く の作品に考古学者が登場する。その作品数は1990年代になるとさらに増加し、そのジ ャンルも多岐にわたる。また、数多くの遺跡や考古学者が登場する長期連載の青年漫 画が出現すること、考古学者が登場する少女漫画が増加することも1990年代の特徴で ある。さらに、この時期の考古学者キャラクターには従来のようなサファリ・ルック の中年男性も存在するが、実際の考古学者イメージに近いキャラクターも多くみられ