{"id":"EA-KURAWA-001","label":"Kurawa site","people_or_site":"Kurawa site","country_current":"Japan","historic_region":"Kurawa site, Hachijo Island, Tokyo, Japan","macroregion":"East Asia / Japan","local_name":"ヘラ状垂飾","source_term":"ヘラ状垂飾; 棒状垂飾; hera-shaped pendant; rod pendant; spatula-shaped pendant","source_language":"Japanese","object_description":"Two long, slender stone rods, each pierced once at the top, of stone assigned to the hard-jade group. They lay in a grave pit near the back of an adult woman's head. Terminal Early to initial Middle Jōmon.","function_summary":"Published as hair ornaments of the hairpin type (Fujita); found where a hairpin would sit, at the back of the head.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"aomori_kiyou04_kurawa_fig5","source_type":"archaeological_research_bulletin","source_url":"https://www.ao-maibun.jp/book/pdf/kiyou_04.pdf","page_or_plate":"Aomori research bulletin no. 4 Fig. 5 objects 42-43","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Approximate point on Hachijō Island, Tokyo, for the Kurawa site; an island-level point, not the site's own location.","jade_complex_role":"bridge","blurb":"On Hachijōjima, three hundred kilometres of open water south of Honshu, the Kurawa site produced burials among its Jōmon houses — and by the back of the skull of an adult woman lay two long stone rods, each pierced through the top. Fujita Fujio made pieces like these the type specimens of his 'hera-shaped pendant' class and read them as hairpin-like hair ornaments, an interpretation the burial position supports handsomely. Kurawa is the strongest case for the ornament reading in the Japanese series: here, for once, the context argues the function. That the stone appears to belong to the hard-jade group, ferried to a volcanic island far from any source, marks the objects as valued; what they were valued as, this grave actually answers.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"ヘラ状垂飾 (hera-jō suishoku): 'spatula-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":"object","date_display":"c. 3750 BC","date_qualification":"","date_basis":"cultural_phase","date_confidence":"medium","date_citation":"aomori_kiyou04_kurawa_fig5, Aomori research bulletin no. 4 Fig. 5 objects 42-43","sources":[{"citation":"Aomori Prefectural Buried Cultural Property Center, Research Bulletin (研究紀要) 4, Fig. 5 nos. 42-43; Kurawa site excavation reports (1986, 1987, 1994)","url":"https://www.ao-maibun.jp/book/pdf/kiyou_04.pdf","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20250218102621/https://www.ao-maibun.jp/book/pdf/kiyou_04.pdf"}],"source_citations":"Aomori Prefectural Buried Cultural Property Center, Research Bulletin (研究紀要) 4, Fig. 5 nos. 42-43; Kurawa site excavation reports (1986, 1987, 1994)","source_display":"Aomori Prefectural Buried Cultural Property Center, Research Bulletin (研究紀要) 4, Fig. 5 nos. 42-43; Kurawa site excavation reports (1986, 1987, 1994)","date_citation_display":"Aomori research bulletin no. 4 Fig. 5 objects 42-43","object_display":"Two long, slender stone rods, each pierced once at the top, of stone assigned to the hard-jade group. They lay in a grave pit near the back of an adult woman's head. Terminal Early to initial Middle Jōmon.","function_display":"Published as hair ornaments of the hairpin type (Fujita); found where a hairpin would sit, at the back of the head.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"kurawa site","display_name":"Kurawa site","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-kurawa-001-items42-43.png","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-kurawa-001-items42-43_thumb.jpg","credit":"","license":"","source_page":"https://www.ao-maibun.jp/book/pdf/kiyou_04.pdf","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"The two Kurawa rods, nos. 42 and 43, each drawn front, side and back, pierced at the top."},"slug":"ea-kurawa-001-kurawa-site"}