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1892.56.118

A brown pottery sherd with cord marks all over the surface. [Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]


1892.56.118

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Collection type
Object
Description
A brown pottery sherd with cord marks all over the surface. [Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]
Geographical reference
Hokkaidō [北海道] Oshima Subprefecture [Oshima-shichō, 渡島支庁] Hakodate [Hakodate-shi, 函館市]
Cultural groups
Japanese
Person
Field collector Basil Hall Chamberlain
PRM source Basil Hall Chamberlain
Date / Period
Archaeological period: Jōmon 縄文時代
Date collected
By 1892
Acquisition information
Purchased: 05/1892
Materials and processes
Material Pottery, Process Handbuilt, Process Impressed, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Decorated
Dimensions
Length: max 101 mm, Depth: max 9 mm, Width: max 94 mm, Weight 63.1 g
Object numbers
Accession number: 1892.56.118 Other numbers: JAC 411
Research and responses

Listed and described as JAC411 on page 121 of the unpublished draft typescript 'The Japanese Archaeology Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford', by Fumiko Ohinata and Jeremy Coote (dated 2002): ‘Pottery ... Jomon pottery ... Japanese Jomon pottery is renowned for its antiquity as it is more than 12,000 years old ... Pottery from this period has a great variety of shapes and decoration, including the characteristic cord-marking (jomon), which has given its name to the whole period. It should be noted, however, that not all pottery of the Jomon period has cord mark decorations. The jomon pottery provides the terminology after which the period is named and not the criteria by which it is assigned ... JAC 411; Plate 57.3 / Hokkaido, Hakodate / 9.4×10.1×0.9; 63.1 g / A brown sherd with cord marks all over the surface.

; PRM 1892.56.118.' Also illustrated in Plate 57.3. (Copy of typescript in RDF: Researchers: Ohinata and Coote). [MN 10/02/2010]

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