Multi-headed stone axe - Tatsusekifu

Japanese: 多頭石斧 - たとうせきふ
Multi-headed stone axe - Tatsusekifu

A type of polished stone axe used for club heads and mace heads. If the blade is attached to the circumference of the disk and the handle is inserted into the handle hole in the center, it is a ring-shaped stone axe, and if it has three or more protrusions and a blade on each end, it is a multi-headed stone axe. In Korea, stone tools with 8, 10, or 18 radial protrusions, such as those found in the plain pottery of North Hamgyong Province and Hwanghae Province on the Korean Peninsula, and which have sharpened protrusions without blades, are called star-shaped stone tools. In Japan, examples of multi-headed stone axe are known from eastern Japan in the late Jomon period and the beginning of the Yayoi period in Aichi Prefecture. In addition, eight-headed star-shaped stone tools have been found in association with middle Yayoi pottery at the Yasunagata Site No. 14 dwelling site in Tosu City, Saga Prefecture, and are thought to be related to the plain pottery culture of the Korean Peninsula.

[Makoto Sahara]

[Reference] | Stone axe

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

棍棒(こんぼう)頭・指揮棒頭mace headに用いる一種の磨製石斧。円盤の周囲に刃をつけ、中央の柄孔(えあな)に柄を差し込めば環状石斧であり、円盤ではなく三つ以上の突起をつくりそれぞれの先に刃をつければ多頭石斧である。朝鮮半島咸鏡(かんきょう)北道や黄海道の無紋土器に伴うもののように8、10、18と多数の突起を放射状につくり、しかも突起の先に刃をつけずとがったままのものは、韓国では星形石器とよんでいる。日本では、縄文晩期の東日本、および愛知県下の弥生(やよい)時代初めに多頭石斧の実例が知られている。このほか、佐賀県鳥栖(とす)市安永田(やすながた)遺跡第14号住居跡から中期弥生土器に伴って八頭の星形石器がみいだされており、これは朝鮮半島の無紋土器文化とかかわるとみられる。

[佐原 真]

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