Ichifusa-kakure ruins

…The older style of Menda pottery has a curved body with a double-arc pattern, while the newer style has a rounded body with a sawtooth pattern and both have rounded bottoms. In addition to jars, other pottery such as jars, bowls, and high-rises, as well as clam-shaped stone axes and stone knives, were also found, and at the Ichifusa-kakure ruins in Matatebaru, Menda Town, Menda pottery was found in a small dolmen. Menda pottery is widely distributed in the southern part of Kumamoto Prefecture, mainly in the Kuma River basin in the Menda region, and extends from the Saga Plains in the north to the main island of Okinawa in the south. …

*Some of the terms mentioned in relation to the "Ichifusagakure Ruins" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…免田式土器の古い形式は胴部が〈く〉の字状に折れ重弧文を，新しい形式は丸みをもった胴部に鋸歯文を描き，底部はともに丸底である。壺のほか甕，鉢，高坏などの土器や蛤刃状の石斧，石庖丁などを伴い，免田町馬立原（またてばる）の市房隠（いちふさかくれ）遺跡では，小型の支石墓に免田式土器が伴った。免田式土器は免田地方など球磨川流域を中心に，熊本県南部に広く分布し，北は佐賀平野から南は沖縄本島まで及ぶ。…

※「市房隠遺跡」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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