Cross Dating of Final Jomon Pottery Complexes

1993 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 04301049
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Co-operative Research (A)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Field: 考古学(含先史学)
• Research Institution: HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY
• Principal Investigator: HAYASHI Kensaku Hokkaido University, Arts & Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (90109405)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): KOSUGI Yasushi Meiji University, Arts & Letters, Research Associate, 文学部, 助手 (10211898) ; SHITARA Hiromi National Museum of History & Ethnography, Archeological Researches, Research Ass, 考古研究部, 助手 (70206093) ; OTSUKA Tatsuro University of Tokyo, Arts & Letters, Research Associate, 文学部, 助手 (10168990) ; SUDO Takashi Tohoku University, Arts & Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (00004060) ; SUZUKI Kimio Keiogijuku University, Arts & Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (80051499)
• Project Period (FY): 1992 – 1993
• Keywords: Jomon Pottery / Final Jomon / Cross-dating / Kamegaoka Pottery / Angyo Pottery / Shigasato Pottery / Transported vessel / Imitated vessel

Research Abstract

Chronologocal parallels are well-established between the complexes of Obora B_1, B_2(Tohoku) - Angyo 3a(Kanto) - Okyozuka, Obora B-C(Tohoku) - Angyo 3b(Kanto) - Nurudehara=Okyozuka 1,2 - Shinohara 1(Kinki), Obora C_1(Tohoku) - Angyo 3c(Kanto) - Nakaya 1-3(Hokuriku) - Shinohara 3(Kinki). Due to lack of adequate data, parallel of Shigasato 1,2 has been left unestablished. Also, such further details, as the more detailed parallels between Obora B's and subdevisions of Angyo 3a, Obora B-C's and Angyo 3b, is left open to further analysis.
An Unifocal Model has been maitained to explain the interaction between pottery complexes as well as transport of pottery vessels themselves. It is made evident that subsidiary centers in Northern Kanto, and Niigata has playd an vital role in distributing pseudo-Kamegaoka potteries. It is also made clear that Shigasato-like potteries in the Central Highland, the Kanto and the Tohoku are produced not in the Kinki, but in the Tokai. This is further substantiated with the fact that we have encounterd only an exceptional evidence to cross-date the Kamegaoka Pottries and Shigasato Potteries. In other words, it was a very scarce opportunity that long-diatance transport of a pottery vessel, from a classical center to center, would have realized. It should also be mentioned, that the potteries of the Hokuriku origin, lids for example, show much wider distribution than ever estimated. An another new model, a Polyfocal Model, should be generated to explain these situations.