Satsumon culture

Japanese: 擦文文化 - さつもんぶんか

A culture associated with Satsumon pottery. Distributed in Hokkaido and the northern Tohoku region, it is believed to have lasted from around the 8th century until the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, with some researchers saying it continued into the early modern period. It is believed that the post-Jomon culture of Hokkaido came into contact with a culture associated with Haji pottery that migrated north from Honshu, and is also considered to be a culture that precedes the Ainu culture. Fishing is thought to have been the main occupation, but the square pit dwellings had hearths, and excavations of millet, barnyard millet, and buckwheat indicate that small-scale cultivation was also carried out.

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Japanese:

擦文土器を伴う文化。北海道，東北地方北部に分布し，8世紀頃より鎌倉・室町時代に及んだとされ，研究者によっては近世まで続いたとする。北海道の続縄文文化に本州から北上した土師器 (はじき) を伴う文化が接触したと推定され，またアイヌ文化に先行する文化として考えられている。おもな生業は漁労であったと考えられるが，方形の竪穴住居にはかまどがあり，粟，ひえ，そばなどが出土することによって，小規模な栽培も行われたことがわかる。

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