{"id":"EA-HEIWA-HOKKAIDO-001","label":"Heiwa site stone-axe-shaped pendant","people_or_site":"Heiwa site stone-axe-shaped pendant","country_current":"Japan","historic_region":"Urahoro, Hokkaido, Japan; Heiwa aggregate route","macroregion":"East Asia / Japan","local_name":"石斧型垂飾","source_term":"石斧型垂飾; 短冊形の垂飾; 軟玉製装飾品; 有孔石斧","source_language":"Japanese","object_description":"Perforated stone slats and fragments from the Heiwa site. The largest piece is a thick fragment, 10.0 × 4.2 × 2.2 cm as preserved, with a saw-cut hole; three thin slats, each holed at the narrow end, measure 6.8 × 2.4 × 0.9 cm, 6.0 × 1.8 × 0.6 cm and 4.5 × 1.4 × 0.3 cm, and further fragments carry saw-cut grooves or unfinished perforations. Mostly rhyolite; the 6.0 cm slat is possibly Hidaka jade. Initial Jōmon, Shimokorobe-type pottery horizon.","function_summary":"Published as a group of perforated stone axes or pendants from one Initial Jōmon site; their ancient use is not recorded.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"heiwa_aggregate_newspaper_plus_bibliography","source_type":"secondary_archaeological_route","source_url":"https://www.hk-curators.jp/archives/1278","page_or_plate":"Hokkaido curators article and Urahoro/Esashi bibliography route","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Approximate municipality-level point at Urahoro, Hokkaido; not the site's own location.","jade_complex_role":"bridge","blurb":"Urahoro's Heiwa site contributes a whole small corpus to the perforated-slat question: a thick ten-centimetre fragment with a saw-cut hole, slats of 6.8, 6.0 and 4.5 centimetres, some with unfinished drilling — mostly rhyolite, one possibly Hidaka jade, all under the perforated stone axe label. It was one of these that reached the newspapers in 2000 as a 'soft jade' ornament, before geologists pointed out how often Hokkaido's look-alike greenstones fool the eye. One site, one horizon, repeated thin end-holed blades in graded sizes: the pattern of a local tradition of suspended slat objects, whatever those objects did.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"石斧型垂飾 (sekifu-gata suishoku): 'stone-axe-shaped pendant'","cls":"unknown","class_label":"Function not recorded","color":"#6B7884","is_candidate":true,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":true,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"f_archaeology":true,"archaeology_kind":"assemblage","date_display":"c. 7050–5950 BC","date_qualification":"","date_basis":"class_chronology","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"heiwa_aggregate_newspaper_plus_bibliography, Hokkaido curators article and Urahoro/Esashi bibliography route","sources":[{"citation":"Tatsuta Osamu, 「有孔石斧について」, Esashi Kenkyu 枝幸研究 11 (2020): 25-32; Hokkaido museum curators' association article; Urahoro town museum publications","url":"https://www.hk-curators.jp/archives/1278","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260610211550/https://www.hk-curators.jp/archives/1278"}],"source_citations":"Tatsuta Osamu, 「有孔石斧について」, Esashi Kenkyu 枝幸研究 11 (2020): 25-32; Hokkaido museum curators' association article; Urahoro town museum publications","source_display":"Tatsuta Osamu, 「有孔石斧について」, Esashi Kenkyu 枝幸研究 11 (2020): 25-32; Hokkaido museum curators' association article; Urahoro town museum publications","date_citation_display":"Hokkaido curators article and Urahoro/Esashi bibliography route","object_display":"Perforated stone slats and fragments from the Heiwa site. The largest piece is a thick fragment, 10.0 × 4.2 × 2.2 cm as preserved, with a saw-cut hole; three thin slats, each holed at the narrow end, measure 6.8 × 2.4 × 0.9 cm, 6.0 × 1.8 × 0.6 cm and 4.5 × 1.4 × 0.3 cm, and further fragments carry saw-cut grooves or unfinished perforations. Mostly rhyolite; the 6.0 cm slat is possibly Hidaka jade. Initial Jōmon, Shimokorobe-type pottery horizon.","function_display":"Published as a group of perforated stone axes or pendants from one Initial Jōmon site; their ancient use is not recorded.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"heiwa site","display_name":"Heiwa site stone-axe-shaped pendant","image":{"full":"assets/objects/EA-HEIWA-HOKKAIDO-001_tatsuta2020_fig3_heiwa.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EA-HEIWA-HOKKAIDO-001_tatsuta2020_fig3_heiwa_thumb.jpg","alt":"Line drawing of three perforated Heiwa stone slats—29, 35 and 34—in face and edge views, each with a hole near one end.","credit":"Tatsuta 2020, 'On perforated stone axes', Esashi Kenkyu 11 — Okhotsk Museum Esashi","license":"© Esashi Town Board of Education; noncommercial reuse permitted by the journal's guide — rehosted for research","source_page":"https://www.esashi.jp/files/00000200/00000209/content_20200416_112444.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The three thin Heiwa slats, nos. 29, 34 and 35, each holed at the narrow end — the most blade-like of the site's perforated stones.","additional":[{"full":"assets/objects/EA-HEIWA-HOKKAIDO-034_tatsuta2020_fig3_no34.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/EA-HEIWA-HOKKAIDO-034_tatsuta2020_fig3_no34_thumb.jpg","alt":"Two black-line views of Heiwa slat no. 34: a thin edge profile above a broad, irregular slat with a circular hole near one end.","credit":"Tatsuta 2020, 'On perforated stone axes', Esashi Kenkyu 11 — Okhotsk Museum Esashi","license":"© Esashi Town Board of Education; noncommercial reuse permitted by the journal's guide — rehosted for research","source_page":"https://www.esashi.jp/files/00000200/00000209/content_20200416_112444.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Heiwa slat no. 34: 6.0 × 1.8 × 0.6 cm, end-holed — possibly Hidaka jade."}]},"slug":"ea-heiwa-hokkaido-001-heiwa-site-stone-axe-shaped-pendant"}