Jomon Culture
Customs and life
Clay figure in Hukuida shell mound
Clay figure 2 in Kanno shell mound
Jomon earthenware ;left one is in Hamadume ruin and right one is in Hokkaido
Torihama shell mound
Part of Five Lakes of Mikata, Torihama ruin which there is in near Mikata Lake's lakefront
is known as representative low land remains of an ancient structure of the Jomon period On the Sea of Japan coast. It's Doshisha University and Rikkyo University's joint investigation in summer of 1962 that a hoe of finding entered this remains for the first time. Village of the early stage and the first term were carried on slightly elevated area and faces the marsh residential land and life remains which had been discarded deposited thick in the low land of the blood relation.
The patterns such as a direct copy sentence, nail type sentence, the goring sentence are given a thin earthenware vessel in a belt. We can know Contents of food resources in those days. Forexample,exhumation of beast bones such as a wild boar or the deer, Nuts such as a walnut or the chinquapin and Coprolite which were mixed the flint arrowhead which is a tool for hunting and stone weight of the tool for fishery.
Dregs of the walnut
Coprolite