Oborashikidoki Pottery

...A shell mound from the final Jomon period located in the saddle of a low plateau facing Ofunato Bay, O-hora, Akasaki-cho, O-funato City, Iwate Prefecture. Shell layers are distributed in one place on the southern slope and two places on the northern slope. Many researchers have investigated the site since ancient times, but the most famous excavation was in 1926 by Hasebe Genjin and Yamauchi Kiyoo of the Tohoku University School of Medicine. The main purpose of this excavation was to collect Stone Age human bones, and a total of 16 bodies were discovered, including flexed burial bones and infant bones in jars. Yamauchi also noticed that the characteristics of the pottery differed depending on the excavation site, and using these pottery as type references, he subdivided the pottery from the final Jomon period in the Tohoku region into six types, and chronologically organized them in the order of O-hora B, BC, _C1 , _C2 , A, and A' types. ...

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "Odoi-style pottery" is listed below.

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…岩手県大船渡市赤崎町大洞，大船渡湾に面した低い台地の鞍部にある縄文時代晩期の貝塚。貝層は南斜面に1ヵ所，北斜面に2ヵ所分布する。古くから数多くの研究者が調査しているが，1926年の東北大学医学部の長谷部言人，山内清男による発掘が有名である。この発掘は石器時代人骨の採集が主目的で，屈葬人骨や甕に入れられた嬰児骨などが合計16体発見された。また山内は発掘地点によって土器の特色が違っているのに注目し，これらの土器を標式資料として，東北地方の縄文時代晩期の土器を6型式に細分し，大洞B･BC･C₁･C₂･A･A′式の順に編年した。…

※「大洞式土器」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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