- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Stemmed stone tool based on elongated flakes. Type A, unifacial rectangular body with a straight working edge. [Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]
- Long description
- Stemmed stone tool based on elongated flakes. Type A, unifacial rectangular body with a straight working edge. Body and the stem snapped off. The section is thick with double ridges. [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
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Jōmon 縄文時代
- Date collected
- By 1892
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 05/1892
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 11 mm, Width: max 25 mm, Length: max 57 mm, Weight 16.8 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1892.56.89 Other numbers: JAC 319
- Research and responses
Listed and described as JAC319 on page 95 of the unpublished draft typescript 'The Japanese Archaeology Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford', by Fumiko Ohinata and Jeremy Coote (dated 2002): 'Stone Tools ... Stemmed flake tools (ishi-saji or stone spoons) … Stemmed stone tools based on elongated flakes … stemmed flakes are commonly divided into side blow flakes and elongated blade-like flakes. Side blow flakes have a stem opposite to the working edge and were concentrated in western Japan up to the Early Jomon period, before becoming widespread elsewhere in Japan. Elongated blade-like flakes have working edges on either or both sides along the longest axis. They appeared before the side-blow flakes and their distribution concentrates mainly around Hokkaido and northern Japan. The majority of stemmed flakes at the Pitt Rivers Museum are from Hokkaido and northern Japan and are elongated blade-like flakes, thus conforming to this general picture. Within each category, further division can be made according to the shape of the body and the positions and shapes of the stem ... Classification of stone spoons in this catalogue are; A:rectangular body, B:trapezium, C:lunar-shape, D:pointed end with straight sides, R: round body, U:unclassified ... / JAC 319; Plate 38.1 / Hokkaido Hakodate / (5.7)×2.5×1.1 cm; 16.8 g / Type A: A unifacial rectangular body with a straight working edge. Body and the stem snapped off. The section is thick with double ridges. / Chamberlain May 1892; PRM 1892.56.89.' Also illustrated in Plate 38.1. (Copy of typescript in RDF: Researchers: Ohinata and Coote). [MN 24/08/2009]
1892.56.89
Stemmed stone tool based on elongated flakes. Type A, unifacial rectangular body with a straight working edge. [Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]
1892.56.89
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