Umataka ruins

Japanese: 馬高遺跡 - うまたかいせき

This is a settlement site from the Middle Jomon period located in Nakahara, Sekihara-cho 1-chome, Nagaoka City, Niigata Prefecture. It is located on the Sekihara Hills (60-70m above sea level) on the west bank of the Shinano River, and overlooks the Mitoinaba Site from the later period on the opposite bank across a small valley. Since around 1935, local Kondo Kanjiro and his son Tosaburo have been collecting artifacts, and many are known to have been found, including stone tools such as chipped and ground stone axes, stone arrowheads, stone spoons, stone spears, stone plates, concave stones, stone clubs, and beads, as well as pottery, clay figurines, triangular clay slabs, triangular clay products, and clay pulley-shaped ear ornaments. It is particularly famous as the site where the so-called flame pottery, a unique style of pottery from the middle to mid-middle Jomon period, was first discovered, which has four large protrusions called cockscomb crests on the rim and a ridge pattern decorating the surface.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

新潟県長岡市関原町1丁目中原にある縄文時代中期の集落遺跡。信濃川西岸の関原丘陵(標高60～70m)上にあり，小谷をはさんだ対岸に後期の三十稲場遺跡を望む。1935年頃から地元の近藤勘治郎･篤三郎父子によって遺物が収集され，打製･磨製石斧，石鏃，石匙，石槍，石皿，凹石（くぼみいし），石棒，玉類などの石器および土器，土偶，三角形土版，三角壔土製品，土製滑車形耳飾など，遺物が多数知られている。とくに縄文中期中葉の土器のうち，口縁部に鶏頭冠とよばれる四つの大型突起をもち，器面を隆線文様で飾る独特な様式のいわゆる火焰土器がはじめて発見された地としても有名である。

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