scholarly journals Les parcs archéologiques de Sannai Maruyama et Yoshinogari. Identité culturelle et préhistoire dans le Japon contemporain

Perspective ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 329-345
Author(s):  
Jonathan M. Reynolds
Keyword(s):  
Sannai Maruyama

scholarly journals Climatic reconstruction at the Sannai-Maruyama site between Bond events 4 and 3—implication for the collapse of the society at 4.2 ka event

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hodaka Kawahata
Keyword(s):  
Asian Summer Monsoon ◽  
Far East ◽  
Ancestral Population ◽  
Neolithic Period ◽  
The North ◽  
Westerly Jet ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Selective Preservation ◽  
Sannai Maruyama ◽  
Archeological Site

Abstract The Jōmon period/culture corresponds to the Neolithic period/culture in Japanese prehistory. The Sannai-Maruyama site (5.9–4.2 cal. kyr BP), the most famous, the largest, and the well-studied mid-Holocene (mid-Jōmon) archeological site inhabited by hunter-gatherers with sedentary lifestyle in northern Japan, started at early Bond event 4 and collapsed at late Bond event 3 (4.2 cal. kyr BP at the boundary between mid-Holocene, Northgrippian, and late-Holocene, Meghalayan), synchronous with the decline of the north Mesopotamian civilization and the Yangtze River civilization in China. Alkenone sea surface temperatures (SSTs), a proxy for early-midsummer SSTs, generally suggest that the early-midsummer SSTs (and atmospheric temperatures (ATs)) at 41° 00′ N, 140° 46′ E, about 20 km north to the Sannai-Maruyama site, located in Aomori Prefecture, peaked around 4.8–4.3 cal. kyr BP and showed minima at 5.9 and 4.1 cal. kyr BP. In spite of some discrepancy in short periods, this feature is consistent with that estimated from the assemblages of Ostracodas. δ18O value of benthic foraminifera of Nonionellina labradorica and Nonionella stella, alkenone production flux, and pollen assemblages could reflect annual-based temperature, which generally suggests that the climate was warmer at 6.0–4.2 cal. kyr BP, which could show the warmer environments at 6.0–5.0 cal. than expected from alkenone SST in early-midsummer. Overall, northward shift of the westerly jet, in association with a strengthened East Asian Summer Monsoon, could cause a relatively warm climate around 6.0–4.3 cal. kyr BP, when the Sannai-Maruyama site flourished. High food production density, by effective hansaibai (selective preservation or growth) in Castanea- and Aesculus-dominated forests, up to one sixth of the rice production density, could have supported high population density, resulting large community at the Sannai-Maruyama site. Cooling episode at 4.2 cal. kyr BP could have resulted in the decline of chestnut hansaibai, leading to the collapse of the site. Recent results from a compiled archeological site map suggested no large decline of the population but, instead, a dispersal to the surrounding area at 4.2 cal. kyr BP. It is consistent with ancestral population dynamics for the descendent from Jōmon people, in contrast to those from the immigrants from Far East Asia to the Japanese Archipelago with paddy rice cultivation technology after 2.9 cal. kyr BP, based on modern Japanese molecular sequences.

scholarly journals Settlement Complexes of the Middle Jōmon in Tohoku: Common Features, Local Specifics and Terms

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 166-188
Author(s):  
Ivanova D. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Site Location ◽  
Main Attention ◽  
Common Features ◽  
Japanese Archipelago ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Archaeological Cultures ◽  
First Time ◽  
Sannai Maruyama ◽  
Honshu Island

Over the past decade, the data on the archaeological cultures of the Japanese archipelago, from the Paleolithic to the Kofun period, have been actively introduced into the Russian archaeology. These materials concern various aspects of the subsistence life of local tribal formations. This study discusses features of the internal structure of the Middle Jōmon settlements from the Tohoku region. The article presents the data from archaeological reports of the most significant sites of this period. Some materials about Middle Jōmon sites (such as Sannai Maruyama, Goshono) were previously published in Russian periodicals, however, the overwhelming majority of data have been presented for the first time. The main attention is paid to the description of the site location, the characteristics of pit-dwellings and raised-floor buildings, household and ritual objects, their location relative to each other, with a short mention of the discovered artifacts. The article was based on materials of the author’s PhD dissertation research “The Middle Jōmon period of Honshu island (5–4 thousand years ago): general characteristics and local features” [Ivanova, 2018].

Jomon archaeology and the representation of Japanese origins

Antiquity ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 73 (281) ◽  
pp. 587-593 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junko Habu ◽  
Clare Fawcett
Keyword(s):  
Large Size ◽  
Sannai Maruyama

Since 1992, on-going excavations of the Early to Middle Jomon period Sannai Maruyama site (3500-2000 BC) have uncovered the large size and complexity of this prehistoric hunter-gatherer settlement.

Changes of environments and human activity at the Sannai-Maruyama ruins in Japan during the mid-Holocene Hypsithermal climatic interval

2009 ◽  
Vol 28 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 964-974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hodaka Kawahata ◽  
Hisashi Yamamoto ◽  
Ken'ichi Ohkushi ◽  
Yusuke Yokoyama ◽  
Katsunori Kimoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Activity ◽  
Sannai Maruyama
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