Karako ruins

Japanese: 唐古遺跡 - からこいせき

This site is located in Karako, Tawaramoto-cho, Shiki-gun, Nara Prefecture, and dates from the early to late Yayoi period. It was jointly excavated by Kyoto University and Nara Prefecture in 1937. The site is at the bottom of Karako Pond, and the remains are well preserved, allowing us to learn about life at that time. Over a hundred small pit pits have been confirmed as remains, from which large quantities of pottery, stone tools, and wooden tools have been excavated. The pottery formed the basis of the various Karako styles, and was classified into Karako Styles 1 to 5, becoming a standard type for pottery in the Kinki region. Stone tools such as chipped and polished stone arrowheads, polished stone axes, ringed stone axes, polished stone swords, and stone spears coexisted with pottery, proving the use of stone tools in combination. The wooden implements include bows, hoes, spades, pestles, ladles, bowls, bowls, pedestals, and boat shapes, revealing the role that wooden implements played at the time and some of the agricultural techniques of the Yayoi period, which was based on agricultural life, as well as the fact that iron tools were used to make the wooden implements. In addition, it is one of the oldest ruins in the Kinki region, and is often compared with an early site in the Onga River basin in Kitakyushu (the Onga River ruins), making it a valuable site for the study of Yayoi culture, in terms of understanding the state of the early Yayoi period in this region.

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Japanese:

奈良県磯城郡田原本町唐古にある弥生時代前期から後期にかけての遺跡。 1937年京都大学と奈良県とが共同発掘した。遺跡は唐古池底にあり，遺物の保存が良好で当時の生活を知ることができる。遺構としては小竪穴が百数基確認され，その中から土器，石器，木器が多量に発掘された。土器は唐古諸様式の基調となり，唐古第1～第5様式に分類され，近畿地方の土器型式の標式になった。石器は打製および磨製石鏃，磨製石斧，環状石斧，磨製石剣，石槍などが土器と共存し，石器の併用が実証された。木器には弓，鍬，鋤，杵，杓子，高坏，鉢，器台，舟形などがあり，当時木器の果した役割や農耕生活を根底とする弥生時代の農耕技術の一部が知られるとともに，木器の製作には，鉄器が使用されたことが認められた。また近畿地方では最古の遺跡に属し，当地方の弥生時代前期の様相を理解するうえからも，よく北九州の遠賀川流域の前期遺跡 (遠賀川遺跡 ) と対比され，弥生文化の研究上貴重な遺跡である。

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