ANTH 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Ichiro Suzuki, Okhotsk Culture, Harpoon
25 Apr 2015
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Traditional whaling in japan: earliest evidence in the form of whale bones in middens, usually shell middens, prior to. Example is sannai maruyama jomon site (5500-4000 bp: over 500 residential pit houses. Reconstructed pit houses, long houses (world heritage site) Inside reconstructed long house, sannai maruyama excavation: associated with site are dolphin bones, but all most likely from stranded animals (yori kujira, moon festival scene at sannai maruyama site. First evidence of active whale hunting in japan at mawaki site, ca. 5000-3000 bp: ceremonialism (?) associated with treatment of dolphin remains drive into shallow water, followed by killing, butchering, however, this does not appear to have been that common. Okhotsk culture, hokkaido, northern japan, 1400-1000 bp: pit houses with associated whale bone remains in middens. Right whale shown in image: pit houses (foreground) and burials (small mounds in background), okhotsk culture, a minimum (to 1998) to 231 prehistoric sites japan contain evidence of whale use/hunting.
