SETTLEMENT COMPLEXES OF THE MIDDLE JŌMON IN TOHOKU: COMMON FEATURES, LOCAL SPECIFICS AND TERMS

Keywords: Japan, Tohoku region, Middle Jōmon, settlement, structure, pit-dwelling, raised-floor buildings, ritual places, terms

Abstract

Over the past decade, the data on the archaeological cultures of the Japanese archipelago, from the Paleolithic to the Kofun period, have been actively introduced into the Russian archaeology. These materials concern various aspects of the subsistence life of local tribal formations. This study discusses features of the internal structure of the Middle Jōmon settlements from the Tohoku region. The article presents the data from archaeological reports of the most significant sites of this period. Some materials about Middle Jōmon sites (such as Sannai Maruyama, Goshono) were previously published in Russian periodicals, however, the overwhelming majority of data have been presented for the first time. The main attention is paid to the description of the site location, the characteristics of pit-dwellings and raised-floor buildings, household and ritual objects, their location relative to each other, with a short mention of the discovered artifacts. The article was based on materials of the author’s PhD dissertation research “The Middle Jōmon period of Honshu island (5–4 thousand years ago): general characteristics and local features” [Ivanova, 2018].

Downloads

Metrics

No metrics found.

Author Biography

D.A. Ivanova, Far Eastern Federal University

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Arts and Humanities

References

Arai T. Jōmon jin o kaita doki Wadai iseki [Wadai Site and Jōmon Pottery with Anthropomorphic Motif]. Iseki o manabu [Learn the Ruins]. Tokyo : Shinsensha, 2005. Vol. 54. 93 p. (In Japanese). Bunka-chō bunkazai-bu kinenmono-ka [Department for the Protection of Cultural Property of the Agency for Cultural Affairs]. Maizō bunkazai kankei tōkei shiryō Hensei 28-nendo-ban [Archaeology Statistics 2016]. Tokyo : Bunka-chō, 2017. 39 p. (In Japanese).
Ivanova D.A. Srednij jōmon ostrova Honshu (5–4 tys. l.n.): obshсhie harakteristiki i lokal’nye osobennosti: diss. kan. ist. nauk [The Middle Jōmon Period of Honshu Island (5–4 thousand years ago): General Characteristics and Local Features: Dissertation … Cand. Hist. Sciences]. Novosibirsk, 2018. 386 p.
Kamifukasawa iseki. Tōhoku jidōsha iseki chōsa hōkoku-sho [Kamifukasawa. Site. Archaeological Report Concerned with Construction of the Tohoku Expressway]. Miyagi-ken bunkazai chōsa hōkoku-sho [Miyagi Prefecture Cultural Heritage Center of Archaeological Report]. Sendai : Miyagi-ken kyōiku iinkai, 1978. Vol. 52. 594 p. (In Japanese).
Kobayashi K. Saikaibuchi iseki to Nishida iseki-no bokō-gun ni tsuite [Groups of Burial Pits from the Saikaibushi and Nishida Site]. Nenpō kōeki zaidan hōjin Yamagata-ken maizō bunkazai sentā [Annual Report of the Yamagata Prefecture Cultural Heritage Center]. Kaminoyama : Ōkaze, 2013. Pp. 58–65 (In Japanese).
Kutsuwada K. Fukushima-ken bunkazai sentā Shirakawa-kan shūzō dogū-no shutsudo jōkyō-ni tsuite [About the Situation of Clay Figurines from Sites from the Collection of the Shirakawa Museum, Center for Cultural Heritage of Prefecture Fukushima]. Fukushima-ken bunkazai sentā Shirakawa-kan kenkyū kiyō [Bulletin of the Shirakawa Museum, Fukushima Prefecture Heritage Center]. Shirakawa : Fukushima-ken kyōiku iinkai, 2010. Vol. 5. Pp. 87–94 (In Japanese).
Matsukidai III iseki [Matsukidai III site]. Akita-ken bunkazai hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Archaeological Report of the Akita Prefecture Cultural Heritage Center]. Semboku : Akita-ken kyōiku iinkai, 2001. Vol. 326. 383 p. (In Japanese).
Nishimoto T., Miura К., Sumita М., Miyata Y. Jōmon hie-no nendai [Dare on Request: Age of “Jōmon Millet”]. Dōbutsu kōkogaku [Zooarchaeology]. 2007. Vol. 24. Pp. 85–88 (In Japanese).
Nishinomae iseki hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Nishinomae site Archaeological Report]. Yamagataken maizō bunkazai sentā hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Research Department of the Yamagata Prefecture Cultural Heritage Center]. Kaminoyama : Yamagata-ken maizō bunkazai sentā, 1994. Vol. 1. 144 p. (In Japanese).
Saikaibuchi iseki dai 1-ji hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Saikaibuchi site Archaeological Report]. Yamagata-ken maizō bunkazai sentā hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Research Department of the Yamagata Prefecture Cultural Heritage Center]. Yamagata : Yamagata-ken kyōiku iinkai, 1991. Vol. 164 (1). 105 p. (In Japanese).
Sannai Maruyama iseki. Jōmon jidai-no daikibo shūraku [Sannai Maruyama Site. Large settlements of the Jōmon Period]. Aomori-ken kyōiku chō bunkazai hogo-ka Sannai Maruyama iseki hozon katsuyō suishin-shitsu [Protection Department of Sannai Maruyama Site, Aomori Prefecture Cultural Heritage Center]. Aomori : Aomori-ken kyōiku chō bunkazai hogo-ka, 2004. 16 p. (In Japanese).
Sōran Jōmon doki [Handbook of Jōmon Pottery]. Tokyo : UM Promotion, 2008. 1322 p. (In Japanese).
Sugawara T. Yamagata-ken ni okeru Jōmon zidai chūki kōhan-ni shūraku yōsō – Yamagata bonchi seibu o chūshin to shite [The Specifics of the Development of Settlements in the Second Half of the Middle Jōmon, in the Western Part of Yamagata Prefecture]. Yamagata-ken maizō bunkazai sentā kenkyū kiyō [Bulletin of the Yamagata Prefecture Cultural Heritage Center]. 2008. Vol. 5. Pp. 1–17 (In Japanese).
Suzuki K. Tōhoku chihō-no Jōmon shūraku-no shakai soshiki to sonraku [Village and Social Organization of the Jōmon Settlements of Tohoku]. Jōmon shūraku-no tayōsei I: Shūraku-no heisei to chiikisei [The Variety of the Jōmon Settlements: The History of Settlement Development and Local Variants]. Tokyo : Yūzangaku, 2009. Vol. 1. Pp. 51–94 (In Japanese).
Tabarev A.V., Ivanova D.A., Nesterkina A.L., Solovieva E.A. Dzemonskaya tradiсiya monumental’nyh sooruzhenij na Yaponskom arhipelage: istoki, osobennosti, rasprostranenie [The Jōmon Megalithic Tradition in Japan: Origins, Features, and Distribution]. Arheologiya, etnografiya i antropologiya Evrazii [Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia]. 2017. Vol. 54(4). Pp. 45–55. DOI: 10.17746/1563-0102.2017.45.4.045-055.
Takada K. Jōmon no ie to mura no fūkei – Goshono iseki [Landscape of Home and Village on Jōmon Culture – Goshono site]. Iseki o manabu [Learn the Ruins]. Tokyo : Shinsensha, 2005. Vol. 15. 93 p. (In Japanese).
Takaseyama iseki (1-ki) dai 1–4-ji hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Archaeological Report of the Takaseyama Site from Zone 1–4]. Yamagata-ken maizō bunkazai sentā hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Research Department of the Yamagata Prefecture Cultural Heritage Center]. Kaminoyama : Yamagata-ken maizō bunkazai sentā, 2004. Vol. 121 (1). 663 p. (In Japanese).
Chikano iseki hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Chikano Site Archaeological Report]. Aomori-shi maizō bunkazai chōsa hōkoku-sho [Archaeological Report of the Aomori Cultural Heritage Center]. Aomori : Aomori-shi kyōiku iinkai, 2002. Vol. 68. 72 p. (In Japanese).
Tokubetsu shiseki Sannai Maruyama iseki [Sannai Maruyama Special Historic Site]. Aomori-ken kyōiku chō bunkazai hogo-ka [Aomori Prefecture Cultural Heritage Department]. Aomori : Aomori-ken kyōiku iinkai, 2015. Vol. 18. 96 p. (In Japanese).
Tominosawa (1) – (2) iseki [Tominosawa 1–2 sites] // Aomori-shi maizō bunkazai hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Archaeological Report of the Aomori Cultural Heritage Center]. Aomori : Aomori-shi kyōiku iinkai, 1992. Vol. 143 (5). 250 p. (In Japanese).
Habu J. Sannai Maruyama iseki-no “raifu hisutori” – iseki-no kinō to teijū doto bunka keikan-no hensei [“Life Story” of the Sannai Maruyama Settlement: Changes in the Functions of the Site, Mobility and Cultural Characteristics]. Kokuritsu minzokugaku hakubutsukan chōsa hōkoku-sho [Report of National Museum of Ethnology]. 2002. Vol. 33. Pp. 161–183 (In Japanese).
Heisei 26-nendo hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Archaeological report 2014]. Iwate-ken bunka shinkō zaidan maizō bunkazai chōsa hōkoku-sho [Archaeological Report of the Cultural Heritage Center, Iwate Prefecture Development Agency]. Morioka : Iwate-ken bunka shinkō zaidan maizō bunkazai sentā, 2015. Vol. 647. 133 p. (In Japanese).
Tsuji S. Sannai Maruyama iseki no sōjo to hennen [Stratigraphy and Chronology of the Sannai Maruyama Site, Aomori Prefecture, Northern Japan]. Shokuseishi kenkyū [Japanese Journal of Historical Botany]. 2006. Vol. 2. Pp. 23–48. (In Japanese).
Yamada Uenodai iseki, Shōwa 55 nendo hakkutsu chōsa hōkoku-sho [Yamada Uenodai Site, Excavation Report 1980]. Sendai-shi bunkazai chōsa hōkoku-sho [Archaeological report of the Sendai Cultural Heritage Center]. Sendai : Sendai-shi kyōiku iinkai, 1987. Vol. 100. 927 p. (In Japanese).
Habu J. Ancient Jomon of Japan / ed. Rita P. Wright. Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004. 332 p. Jomon Japan. Available at: http://jomon-japan.jp/library /photo/ (Accessed 03.06.2020).
Matsumoto N., Habu J., Matsui A. Subsistence, Sedentism, and Social Complexity among Jomon Hunter-Gatherers of the Japanese Archipelago. Handbook of East and Southeast Asian Archaeology. New York : Springer, 2017. P. 437–450.
Okada Y. Jomon Culture of Northeastern Japan and the Sannai Maruyama Site. Senri Ethnological Studies. 2003. Vol. 6. P. 173–186.
Takada K., Nishikawa K., Asakawa S. Reconstruction of a Jomon Period Sod Roof Pit House: Burnt Pit Dwelling of Goshono Site, Ichinohe Town, Iwate Prefecture (1). Monthly Cultural Asset. 1998. Vol. 417. P. 55–59.
Published
2020-12-25
How to Cite
Ivanova D. SETTLEMENT COMPLEXES OF THE MIDDLE JŌMON IN TOHOKU: COMMON FEATURES, LOCAL SPECIFICS AND TERMS // THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 2020. Vol. 32, № 4. P. 166-188 DOI: 10.14258/tpai(2020)4(32).-13. URL: http://journal.asu.ru/tpai/article/view/%2832%29.-13.
Section
FOREIGN ARCHAEOLOGY