Late Jomon (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Slate stone clubs created as prestige technologies were frequently found in shuteibo (a type of communal cemetery characterized by a circular embankments constructed in the latter half of the Late Jomon of central Hokkaido) burials suggesting that they were regalia of the dead. This paper explores sources of the stone clubs to better understanding trade...
Sourcing of Grave Stones in the Late Jomon of Central Hokkaido (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The goal of this paper is to determine the source of grave stones for exploring the political economy among regional groups on the Ishikari Plain in the Late Jomon of central Hokkaido who created shuteibo (a type of communal cemetery characterized by a circular embankment). Our previous petrological analyses based on polarizing microscopical observation of...