This JWP Focus paper argues that material culture transformation can be understood as the transformation of the way human beings and material culture mutually open up their potentialities. Such opening up/becoming takes place in the domains of their encounter, which often take the form of human communications. In communication, human beings and material culture mutually mediate/intervene/transform their modes of existence as the former cope with various uncertainties and risks that the world generates and that communication differentiates. Drawing upon the theory of communication developed by the social systems theorist, Niklas Luhmann, the paper will elucidate and elaborate this perspective through an examination of the long-term transformation of the mode of such mutual opening up/becoming by human beings and the material culture of their potentialities that took place in the Jomon and the Yayoi periods of Japan between 13000 Cal BC and AD 250/300.

JWP Focus这篇论文认为，物质文化转型可以理解为人类与物质文化相互开放潜力的方式的转变。这种开放/转变发生在他们相遇的领域，通常采取人类交流的形式。在传播中，人类与物质文化相互调解/干预/转变其存在方式，前者应对世界产生的各种不确定性和风险，而传播则有差异。本文将借鉴社会系统理论家尼克拉斯·卢曼（Niklas Luhmann）发展的传播理论，通过考察人类与物质文化的这种相互开放/成为的模式的长期转变来阐明和阐述这一观点。公元前 13000 年至公元 250/300 年日本绳文和弥生时期的潜力。