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