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Trading routes between the Northern Okhotsk Sea region and Sakhalin with relation to the subject of the excavated comb-patterned pottery

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the Tokarev culture

2013-03

Hokkaido University Museum

Bulletin of the Hokkaido University Museum

6

18-26

2013年7月1日改訂

Incision-patterned pottery was excavated at many archaeological sites from the Okhotsk culture dated 300 to 1300 A.D. They are similar to incision-patterned pottery excavated at numerous archaeological sites from the Tokarev culture dated 700 B.C. to 200 A.D. and the Ancient Koryak culture dated 500 to 1700 A.D., on the northern coastal area facing the Sea of Okhotsk. Such resemblances of incision-patterned potteries indicate that these ancient inhabitant groups of Sakhalin and the northern coastal area of the Sea of Okhotsk had some form of contact with each other. Susuya-type pottery peculiar to Sakhalin contains comb patterns. Pottery with comb-patterned ornamentation was excavated at not only Tokarev culture archaeological sites but also at archaeological sites of the Early Iron Age in the northwestern coastal area. In Sakhalin, however, details of the culture with comb-patterned pottery remain unknown. Recent publications reveal that comb-patterned pottery has been excavated at many archaeological sites in Northern Sakhalin and that such pottery belonged to the Nabil’ culture dated 800 to 300 B.C. and to the Pil’tun culture dated 1000 to 400 B.C., both of the Early Iron Age (cf. Fig. 2). These finds clarified the fact that the comb-patterned pottery were from the Nabil’ and Pil’tun cultures in Northern Sakhalin (Fig. 3: 1, 15). Moreover, it is estimated that the comb-patterned pottery of the Susuya-type pottery (Fig. 3: 18, 19 and Fig. 5) appeared in Southern Sakhalin through the influence of Nabil’ culture. At the Kukhtuj VII archaeological site of the Early Iron Age on the northwestern seacoast of the Okhotsk, comb-patterned pottery similar to those characteristic of the Nabil’ and Pil’tun cultures was excavated (Fig. 7: 1, 8, and 9). The age of the Kukhtuj VII site is estimated to be from 600 to 500 B.C. Comb-patterned pottery was also excavated at the Ujka site of the Early Iron Age on the northern seacoast of the Okhotsk (Fig. 8: 1, 2, 13, 14, 16, 19?26, 30?32). The age of the Ujka site is estimated to be from 1 to 500 A.D. At the Spafar’ev archaeological site of the Tokarev culture dated 700 BC to 200 A.D. on the northern seacoast of the Okhotsk, comb-patterned pottery similar to those characteristic of the Nabil’ and Pil’tun cultures was excavated (Fig. 10: 2?8). The age of the Spafar’ev site is estimated to be between 300 B.C. and 100 A.D. The comb-patterned potteries excavated at the Ujka and Kukhtyi VII sites on the northwestern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Spafar’ev site on the northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk resemble the comb-patterned pottery excavated at many sites of the Nabil’ and the Pil’tun cultures. The ages of these sites are not coincidental, being within the range of the Tokarev culture period dated 700 B.C. to 100 A.D. Therefore, it is supposed that these comb-patterned potteries at the Ujka, Kukhtuj VII, and Spafar’ev sites appeared by means of contact and mingling of inhabitants in North Sakhalin, on the northwestern and northern seacoasts of the Okhotsk. A route for traffic was most likely opened by means of contact by peoples of the Nabil’ and the Pil’tun cultures in Northern Sakhalin, by peoples of the Early Iron Age on the northwestern seacoast of the Okhotsk, and by those of the Tokarev culture on the northern seacoast of the Okhotsk; hence, this trading route provided a way for the comb-patterned pottery to be spread from Northern Sakhalin to the northwestern and northern seacoasts of the Okhotsk.

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