Comb pattern pottery

Japanese: 櫛目文土器 - くしめもんどき
Comb pattern pottery

Pottery that characterizes the Neolithic period in northern Eurasia. Based on deep bowls with rounded, pointed bottoms, it is decorated with various patterns using comb-like ornamentation. It appeared in the upper reaches of the Volga River and its tributary, the Oka River basin, and spread to Finland, central Russia, and Siberia. In Siberia, it is prominent in the Krasnoyarsk and Minusinsk regions of the Yenisei River basin, and reaches the Angara region and Lake Baikal. Similar types of pottery are also found in northeastern China and Korea, but their relationship to the Siberian version is unclear.

Korean comb-patterned pottery is also Neolithic pottery, and is based on round- or flat-bottomed deep bowls decorated with various geometric patterns. Some have asbestos or talc mixed into the clay. There are regional differences, with flat-bottomed pots in northeastern China and the Yalu River basin, and round-bottomed pots in other regions. Sites where stratigraphic excavations were conducted to serve as the basis for chronology include the Seophang shell mound in Gukpo-ri, North Hamgyong Province, and the Dongsam-dong shell mound in Busan Metropolitan City. The Seophang shell mound is divided into five periods, with lightning patterns appearing in the newer periods and no culture at the end. In the west and south, wavy dotted patterns can be seen in the newer periods. The sites are distributed near coasts and riverbanks, and often form shell mounds. Hunting and fishing were the main occupations, but in the later period, cereal cultivation appears to have taken place, as evidenced by the discovery of convex stone axes, stone sickles, stone mortars, and sickles made from boar tusks. It is thought that this changed to plain pottery around the 7th or 8th century BC. Comb pattern pottery appears to have had some influence on the development of Sobata-style pottery from the early Jomon period in Kyushu, suggesting exchanges across the strait during the Jomon period.

[Hideo Sadamori]

"Geometric Pottery by Kim Jeonghak" (Collected in "Korean Archaeology", 1972, Kawade Shobo Shinsha) "Comb-pattern Pottery by Han Byeong-sam" (Collected in "Complete Collection of World Ceramics 17: Ancient Korea", 1979, Shogakukan)

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

北方ユーラシアにおける新石器時代を特徴づける土器。丸底、尖底(せんてい)の深鉢(ふかばち)を基本とし、櫛歯様施文具(くしばようせもんぐ)で各種の文様が施されている。ボルガ川上流やその支流のオカ川流域に出現し、フィンランド、中央ロシア、シベリアに波及した。シベリアではエニセイ川流域のクラスノヤルスク、ミヌシンスク両地域に顕著で、アンガラ地方やバイカル湖にも達する。また、中国東北、朝鮮にも同種の土器があるが、シベリアのそれとの関係は明らかではない。

 朝鮮の櫛目文土器も新石器時代の土器で、丸底、平底の深鉢を基本とし、各種の幾何学文様が施される。石綿、滑石などを胎土(たいど)中に混入するものがある。地域差があり、中国東北地域、鴨緑江(おうりょくこう)流域では平底、他地域では丸底である。編年の基準となる層位的発掘が行われた遺跡には、咸鏡北道(かんきょうほくどう/ハムギョンプクド)屈浦里(くっぽり)の西浦項(せいほこう)貝塚と釜山(ふざん/プサン)広域市の東三洞(とうさんどう)貝塚がある。西浦項貝塚では5期に分けられ、時期が新しくなると雷文(らいもん)が出現したり、終末には無文化する。西部、南部では時期が新しくなると波状点線文がみられる。遺跡は海岸や河岸近くに分布し、貝塚を形成することが多い。狩猟、漁労を主とするが、後半には凸字形石斧(せきふ)、石鎌(いしがま)、石鍤(いしすき)やイノシシの牙(きば)でつくられた鎌などがみられることから雑穀栽培が行われたようである。紀元前7、8世紀ごろに無文土器に変わると考えられる。櫛目文土器は九州の縄文時代前期の曽畑(そばた)式土器成立になんらかの影響を与えたようで、縄文時代における海峡を越えた交流をうかがわせる。

[定森秀夫]

『金廷鶴著「幾何学文土器」(『韓国の考古学』所収・1972・河出書房新社)』『韓炳三著「櫛目文土器」(『世界陶磁全集17 韓国古代』所収・1979・小学館)』

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