Ritsurin ruins - Kuribayashi ruins

Japanese: 栗林遺跡 - くりばやしいせき

A Yayoi period site in Ritsurin, Nakano City, Nagano Prefecture. The site is a settlement located on a slight elevation overlooking the old riverbed on the right bank of the Chikuma River, at the western foot of the Nagaoka Hills, which run north to south at the northern end of the Nagano Basin. The site was known as a site where rubbed Jomon pottery from the Middle Yayoi period in the Chubu Mountains had been unearthed, based on the items collected by Kanda Goroku before World War II, but excavations in 1948 uncovered circular pit dwellings. A large number of pottery from the middle Jomon period, pottery mixed with comb patterns, and later pottery using only comb patterns, have been excavated, revealing the transition of the latter half of the Yayoi period in the northern part of the Chubu Mountains.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

長野県中野市栗林にある弥生時代の遺跡。長野盆地の北端に，南北に連なる長丘丘陵の西麓，千曲川右岸の旧河床にのぞむ微高地上にひろがる集落遺跡。第2次大戦前神田五六の採集品により，中部山地弥生中期の磨消（すりけし）縄文のある土器が出土する遺跡として知られていたが，1948年の発掘で円形竪穴住居を検出した。縄文のある中期中ごろの土器から櫛目文が混用される土器，さらに櫛目文だけを用いた後期の土器が多量に出土して，中部山地北部の弥生時代後半の変遷の状況が明らかとなった。

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