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Abstract
The archaeologist appeared in Japanese comics which are one of the contemporary popular cultures at many comic writer s works including the maestros of Japanese comic community, such as Osamu Tezuka and Shoutarou Ishinomori. Although there were not so many comics in which an archaeologist appeared till the 1960s, when the 1970s came, the number of the comics increased, and reflecting a social trend of those days. For exam-ple, some archaeologist characters appeared in the work which was subject to the influ-ence of the occult boom of 1970s. And the archaeologist character of 1950s-1960s was middle-aged man and usually wore the scholar like suit, and wore fatigue uniform or Sa-fari look at excavation and outdoor activity. After 1970s, the new archaeologist character of different image from these characters has appeared. Japanese comic works can be re-garded as precious data which can know the image of archaeologist and archaeology in Japanese society of those days.
要 旨 現代のポピュラー・カルチャー（大衆文化）の一つである漫画には、手塚治虫や石 ノ森章太郎などの漫画界の巨匠たちをはじめ、多くの漫画家の作品に考古学者が登場 してきた。その数は1960年代まではそれほど多くなかったが、1970年代になるとその 作品数が増え、当時のオカルトブームの影響を受けた作品に考古学者が登場するなど 当時の世相を反映している。また、1950年代から1960年代の考古学者キャラクターは
