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EA-AOMORI-KIYOU30-YUKO-SEKIFU-FIG7 - archaeological find

Aomori Kiyou 30 Figure 7 perforated polished-stone-axe / stone-product set

Japan - Hokkaido comparative corpus; Aomori Kiyou 30 Fig. 7 and Nakano B crosswalk - East Asia

Function not recorded Candidate only

Nakano B no.239 perforated polished stone pendant (= Aomori Kiyou 30 Fig. 7 no.2), three views with lens-thin section — 有孔石斧 set lead
Nakano B no.239 perforated polished stone pendant (= Aomori Kiyou 30 Fig. 7 no.2), three views with lens-thin section — 有孔石斧 set lead Image source

有孔石斧 Japanese

Source term: 有孔石斧; 穿孔を有する磨製石斧; 石製品; 篦状垂飾; 垂飾; 環状石斧 comparison

有孔石斧 (yūkō sekifu): 'perforated stone axe'

This row holds a measured comparison set rather than a single object: five perforated polished 'axes' from northern Tōhoku and southern Hokkaido sites — Nakano B, Shimotashiro, Uriba — illustrated together in an Aomori research bulletin and traced by the atlas back to their individual report entries, grid squares and layers. The materials disagree agreeably: tuff at 8.2 centimetres, serpentinite at 5.1 and 4.9, green tuff in a fragment — the same top-holed thin-blade format repeating across different stones, each under a centimetre thick, several with rubbing recorded at the hole. The perforated-axe label covers them all; what the label doesn't cover is why an 'axe' should hang from a cord by its head.

Object
有孔石斧; 穿孔を有する磨製石斧; 石製品; 篦状垂飾; 垂飾; 環状石斧 comparison. Specimens/count: five illustrated Kiyou Fig.7 objects; Nakano B nos.2-4 now crosswalked to report no.239, no.156, and no.155; Shimotashiro no.1 has prior Kyodokan row-safe update; Uriba no.5 remains unresolved. Material: Nakano no.239 凝灰岩; Nakano no.156 蛇紋岩; Nakano no.155 蛇紋岩; Shimotashiro no.2 緑色凝灰岩; Uriba no.5 unresolved. Dimensions: Nakano no.239: 8.2 x 2.5 x 0.8 cm, 15.9 g; Nakano no.156: 5.1 x 3.4 x 0.9 cm, 21.4 g; Nakano no.155: 4.9 x 3.8 x 0.9 cm, 25.7 g; Shimotashiro no.2: (4.7) x (4.3) x (2.3) cm, 37 g. Perforation: Kiyou no.2/source no.239: upper-center one hole; Kiyou no.3/source no.156: upper-center one hole with rubbing; Kiyou no.4/source no.155: upper-corner one hole with rubbing; Shimotashiro no.2: head fragment with one perforation; Uriba no.5 unresolved. Context: Nakano no.239 grid 44-33, layer I; Nakano no.156 grid 17-33, layer I; Nakano no.155 grid 42-37, layer III; Shimotashiro no.2 遺構外E-13 II層下; Uriba part2 blocked. Date: Initial Jōmon (早期); Nakano B occupation ~7500–7000 BP; the perforated-axe class spans 8500–6000 14C BP.
Function
Published as perforated polished stone axes (有孔石斧) in an Aomori comparative figure; the atlas has crosswalked each drawing to its report entry and reads the set as the northern Japanese face of the end-holed thin-blade lane.
Map confidence
low_medium - Approximate locality or municipality/site-cluster anchor from the local dossier; refine before public release.
Source location
Aomori Kiyou 30 Fig. 7; Nakano B nos. 239, 156, 155 crosswalk

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