Karakami Ruins

Japanese: カラカミ遺跡 - からかみいせき

This is a Yayoi period site located near the top of Mt. Karakami, about 90 meters above sea level, in Higashi-Satsuma, Katsumoto-cho, Iki-gun, Nagasaki Prefecture. On the top of the mountain, overlooking Yunomoto Bay, is Karakami Shrine, and there is a layer containing artifacts on the slopes around the shrine. The site was discovered around 1920, and mirrors and Han-style pottery were excavated. It is also called Karakami Shell Mound because of the shell layer. In 1977, the East Asian Archaeological Society investigated the site, and stone axes, iron harpoons, iron sickles, iron hacksaws, antler-attached knives, and bronze arrowheads were excavated from the layer from the middle to late Yayoi period, and whalebone harpoons, iron arrowheads, iron hacksaws, antler-attached knives, bronze arrowheads, and nearly complete Han-style pottery were excavated from the layer from the later period. Together with the Harunotsuji site, it has become known as a representative Yayoi period site showing the transition from stone tools to iron tools.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

長崎県壱岐郡勝本町大字立石字東触の標高約90mの唐神山山頂周辺にある弥生時代の遺跡。湯野本湾を望むことのできる山頂には加良香美神社があり，神社周辺の斜面に遺物包含層がある。遺跡は1920年ころ発見され，出土した鏡や漢式土器などが紹介された。貝層があることからカラカミ貝塚ともよばれることがある。52年には東亜考古学会が調査し，弥生時代中期後半の層から石斧，鉄銛，鉄鎌，鉄鉇（てつやりがんな），鹿角装刀子，銅鏃などが出土し，後期の層からも鯨骨製銛，鉄鏃，鉄鉇，鹿角装刀子，銅鏃や完形に近い漢式土器が出土して，原ノ辻（はるのつじ）遺跡と共に，石器から鉄器への転換を示す代表的な弥生時代遺跡として知られるようになった。

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