Historical Materials No.43
REPORT of THE YAMANOUCHI SUGAO ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTION NUMBER VII
Archaeological Data from the Soya Shellmound, Chiba, Japan
This series of catalogs publishes archaeological materials collected by the late Dr. YAMAUCHI Sugao [1902-1970]. He was a prominent prehistorian who firmly established the methodological framework of investigations into Japanese prehistory, particularly the Jomon Period. His collection principally consists of archaeological data resulting from his own excavations at Jomon sites in eastern Japan.
This volume includes the Jomon pottery and faunal remains excavated at the Soya Shellmound site, Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture. Although this shellmound is a type site of the Soya type that represents one stage of the late Jomon Period in the Kanto region, some scholars have questioned its validity because the data have remained unpublished since the excavation in December, 1936. With this publication, however, the aspects of the Soya-type Jomon pottery come to be clear, such as functional differentiation of pottery in a single chronological phase, and the definition of the Soya type becomes secure.
NAEA NATIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE
PUBLICATIONS ON HISTROCIAL MATERIALS, VOLUME 43
NARA, MARCH 1996
CONTENTS
Preface
I. Jomon pottery discovered at the late Jomon Soya Shellmound site, Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture (by KANEKO Hiroyuki)
The pottery assemblage at the Soya Shellmound site includes not only those of the Soya type, but also those dated earlier and later than the Soya-type pottery. The earlier ones are of the Horinouchi and Kasori-B types, and the later one is of the Angyo type. The Soya-type late Jomon pottery consists of seven types of finely-made deep bowls, including a deep bowl with wavy rim-top, deep bowl with a straight rim-top, and two types of coarsely-made deep bowls, as well as a shallow bowl and pedestalled bowl. The most characteristic of the Soya type is the deep bowl with wavy rim-top, which may be further classified into a few sub-types based on the composition and application order of the surface decoration patterns.
1. Nature of the data 1
2. Overview of the Soya Shellmound site 2
3. Classification of the Jomon pottery 6
4. Summary and prospects 23
II. Faunal remains at the Soya Shellmound site (by MATSUI Akira, UCHIYAMA Junzo, MIYAJI Atsuko, OYAMA Koji, and HAYASHI Kaori)
The faunal remains consist of sixteen species of shellfishes, four species of fishes, and eight species of mammals. As in the case of other late Jomon shellmounds in the coastal area of Tokyo Bay. the Soya assemblage is characterized by a large number of shellfishes living in sand of inland bays and small numbers of fishes and mammals.
1. Molluscs 25
2. Fishes 25
3. Mammals 27
4. Bone and antler tools and miscellaneous 28
5. Summary 29
III. Haji earthenware pot with pictorial engravings discovered at the Iko site, Adachi-ku, Tokyo (by TSUGIYAMA Jun)
This chapter is a study of a fifth-century Haji earthenware pot with enigmatic pictorial engravings. YAMANOUCHI discovered the pot at the Iko site in Tokyo in 1919. The site was probably a ceremonial center during the Kofun Period (late third to sixth centuries A.D.).
1. Observation of the Haji earthenware pot with pictorial engravings 30
2. Similar examples from Yayoi pottery and Kofun Period bronze mirror 32
3. Combination of the motifs of a plectrum-form, dragon, and cedar leaf on single pottery vessels 33
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