{"id":"EA-USUKUBO-PENDANTS-001","label":"Usukubo stone pendant group","people_or_site":"Usukubo site official pendant group","country_current":"Japan","historic_region":"Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan; Usukubo site pendant group","macroregion":"East Asia / Japan","local_name":"垂飾","source_term":"垂飾; stone pendant; serpentinite/tuff polished pendant; top-holed slat/broad pendant group","source_language":"Japanese","object_description":"At least four polished stone pendants in tuff and serpentinite: a narrow slat with a round hole at the top; a broad, tapering plate, 7.5 cm long, with an elongated upper hole; a tear-shaped piece and a small rectangular one, each pierced near the top.","function_summary":"Catalogued as a group of Jōmon pendants; the narrow top-holed slat sets blade-form against the plate-form of its broader companions in a single frame.","attestation_type":"archaeological_find","source_key":"kanagawa_gallery_usukubo_pendant","source_type":"official_object_gallery","source_url":"https://maibun-c.pref.kanagawa.jp/gallery_detail.cfm?itemdata_id=1799796&kind=%E7%9F%B3&search_type=2","page_or_plate":"Kanagawa buried-cultural-property gallery item 1799796","map_confidence":"low_medium","plot_status":"candidate_only","coordinate_basis":"Approximate municipality-level point at Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture; not the site's own location.","jade_complex_role":"bridge","blurb":"The Usukubo find from Chigasaki survives as a group: at least four stone pendants photographed together in the Kanagawa Buried Cultural Properties Center's public gallery, in tuff and serpentinite, the central piece 7.5 centimetres long. What makes the group useful is the contrast inside the frame — a narrow slat with a round hole at the top beside broader tear- and plate-shaped pieces with holes of their own, one of them elongated. One photograph, one findspot, one 'pendant' label; several quite different things to hang from a cord. The find may derive from a grave-related area but was recovered outside any feature.","pull_quote":"","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"","term_gloss":"垂飾 (suishoku): '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. 5000–400 BC","date_qualification":"Broad Early-to-Final Jōmon span for a find from outside any feature.","date_basis":"broad_context","date_confidence":"low","date_citation":"kanagawa_gallery_usukubo_pendant, Kanagawa buried-cultural-property gallery item 1799796","sources":[{"citation":"Kanagawa Prefecture Buried Cultural Properties Center, online gallery item 1799796 (Usukubo site pendants)","url":"https://maibun-c.pref.kanagawa.jp/gallery_detail.cfm?itemdata_id=1799796&kind=%E7%9F%B3&search_type=2","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20261013010124/https://maibun-c.pref.kanagawa.jp/gallery_detail.cfm?itemdata_id=1799796&kind=%E7%9F%B3&search_type=2"}],"source_citations":"Kanagawa Prefecture Buried Cultural Properties Center, online gallery item 1799796 (Usukubo site pendants)","source_display":"Kanagawa Prefecture Buried Cultural Properties Center, online gallery item 1799796 (Usukubo site pendants)","date_citation_display":"Kanagawa buried-cultural-property gallery item 1799796","object_display":"At least four polished stone pendants in tuff and serpentinite: a narrow slat with a round hole at the top; a broad, tapering plate, 7.5 cm long, with an elongated upper hole; a tear-shaped piece and a small rectangular one, each pierced near the top.","function_display":"Catalogued as a group of Jōmon pendants; the narrow top-holed slat sets blade-form against the plate-form of its broader companions in a single frame.","confidence_display":"low to medium","attestation_label":"archaeological find","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"usukubo site","display_name":"Usukubo stone pendant group","image":{"full":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/ea-usukubo-pendants-001.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/jade_candidates/local_review/thumbs/ea-usukubo-pendants-001_thumb.jpg","alt":"Four Usukubo stone pendants in tuff and serpentinite: two narrow holed slats, a broad pale piece with a central slot and an oval holed piece.","credit":"","license":"","source_page":"https://maibun-c.pref.kanagawa.jp/gallery_detail.cfm?itemdata_id=1799796&kind=%E7%9F%B3&search_type=2","rehosted":true,"representative":false,"caption":"Usukubo stone pendants (垂飾) in tuff and serpentinite: the narrow holed slat at left, broader pieces beside it"},"slug":"ea-usukubo-pendants-001-usukubo-site-official-pendant-group"}