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Contributions to the Archaeology of Northern Honshu: Part II, Ogawara Pit-House Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Extract

This is the second in a series of 3 articles describing recent finds by the writer in northern Honshu, Japan. The first article (AMERICAN ANTIQUITY, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 12- 31) was devoted to an introduction to the series and to the description of sites and materials of the Jomon (Neolithic) period. This article is a description of the protohistoric (Haji period) sites found and explored in Kamikita Gun, Aomori Prefecture, Honshu. These sites are primarily those of small villages, in 3 instances fortified by a ditch or an earthen wall. The outstanding characteristic of all these sites is that the old house pits can still be located by the circular, saucer-like depressions showing on the present surface. In addition to the concentrations of house pits which represent villages, many individual house pits may be found scattered about the region.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1955

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References

Munro, N. G. 1908 Prehistoric Japan. Yokohama.Google Scholar