Imayama ruins - Imayama ruins

Japanese: 今山遺跡 - いまやまいせき

This is a Yayoi period stone axe-making site located in Oaza Imajuku Yokohama, Nishi Ward, Fukuoka City. It is located on the middle and base of an isolated hill called Imayama, 85m above sea level. It was discovered in 1923. Imayama is made of basalt, and thick clam-blade stone axes characteristic of the Yayoi period are made from this basalt. Rough processing is done on the mountaintop or middle slope close to the raw material quarry, and finishing processing is done at two ruins at the foot of the mountain to turn them into products. Stone axe production seems to have been active in the first half of the middle Yayoi period, but a survey by the Fukuoka City Board of Education in 1969 revealed that it had been taking place since the end of the early Yayoi period.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

福岡市西区大字今宿字横浜にある弥生時代の石斧製作遺跡。標高85mの今山という独立丘陵の中腹とその裾部に位置する。1923年発見。今山は玄武岩からなり，この玄武岩を原材として弥生時代特有の太形蛤刃石斧を製作している。原材採石場に近い山頂や中腹で粗加工し，山麓の2ヵ所の遺跡で仕上げ加工して製品化している。石斧製作は弥生時代中期前半に盛んに行われたらしいが，69年の福岡市教育委員会の調査で，弥生時代前期末から行われていたことが明らかになった。

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