Historical Materials No.95

TOOLS OF JOMON CORD MARKING THE YAMAUCHI SUGAO COLLECTION I

RESERCH REPORT, NARA NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR CULTURAL PROPERTIES NO.95

PART Ⅰ Tools of Jomon cord marking and clay tablets made by YAMANOUCHI SUGAO

1 Outline of materials　　1

2 Process of investigation　　2

3 Tools of Jomon cord marking and clay tablets, printed in "Cord Marking on Prehistoric Japanese Pottery（⽇本先史⼟器の縄紋）",and related materials　　3

4 Identification of plant species used for tools of Jomon cord marking　　23

PART Ⅱ Reconstruction of tools of Jomon cord marking and cord marked impressions on clay tablets, printed in "Cord Marking on Prehistoric Japanese Pottery（⽇本先史⼟器の縄紋）"

1 Terms of Jomon cord marking　　25

2 Reconstruction of tools of Jomon cord marking and cord marked impressions on clay tablets　　27

Bibliographies　　101

English summary　　107

SUMMARY

　This book "The Yamanouchi Sugao Collection I：Tools of Jomon Cord-marking" is the first in a new series that reports unreported materials among the archaeological materials and research tools of Yamanouchi Sugao held by Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties. Yamanouchi Sugao (1902-1970), who achieved the systematization of Japanese prehistoric archeology, was one of Japan's leading archaeologists. Among the many achievements left by Yamanouchi, the elucidation of the Jomon pattern, that is, the " Tools of Jomon Cordmarking " found in Jomon pottery and Yayoi pottery, is still positioned as his outstanding achievement.
　This book is composed of two parts. In Part I, We reported tools of cord-marking that is presumed to have been produced by Yamanouchi, focusing on tools of cord-marking and clay tablets published in "Cord Marking on Prehistoric Japanese Pottery（日本先史土器の縄紋）" (Yamanouchi 1979). In Part II, We reconstructed tools of cord-marking and clay tablets for all of tools of cord-marking and clay tablets published in " Cord Marking on Prehistoric Japanese Pottery（日本先史土器の縄紋）", and explained the structure and manufacturing procedure of tools of cord-marking. In " Cord Marking on Prehistoric Japanese Pottery（日本先史土器の縄紋）", the clay tablets corresponding to tools of cord-marking are given the same number, but there are some parts where the numbers of tools of cord-marking and the clay tablets do not match. It was revised and posted so that the relationship would be correct.