ANT313H5 Lecture Notes - Safflower, Rumex Acetosella, Fish Trap
Document Summary
Mochiyazawa site excavation: buried in aluminum, excavating shallow part filled with charred remains, plant remains were primarily nuts. Zoku jomon pit: k135 site, streaks of calcium and formed in shapes of bones, found human tooth, so these were burials. Zoku jomon food: nuts, fish, seeds (barley and wall barley) Many sites are partially cemeteries (which we don"t see a lot) Not a lot of change (no intermarriages) A misunderstood past: a new look at the native people of northern japan. Sources of info: travellers, missionaries, oral history, written history, ethnohistory, archaeology, human biology. Issues: thought to have been european (caucasian, thought to be settled hunter-gatherers, 1970s discourse assumed ainu nature was primitive. A recent japanese statement: bizarre, for non-ainu, they are seen as tourist attraction, entertainment, a view of a different more essential period of human existence. Implies ainu are not like the japanese- they are other people .
