Refuse patterning and behavioral analysis in a pinniped hunting camp in the Late Jomon Period: A case study in layer V at the Hamanaka 2 site, Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan

Sakaguchi, Takashi

doi:10.1016/j.jaa.2006.07.001

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“…A short summary of Rebun archaeology provided by Sakaguchi (2007aSakaguchi ( , 2007b points out that the oldest remains of human activities on Rebun Island are Palaeolithic microblades, microcores and tanged projectile points dating to c. 22,000-13,000 cal. yr BP.…”

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“…Both are located in the northern part of the island close to Lake Kushu ( Figure 1d). Sakaguchi (2007a) has suggested that the Hamanaka 2 site was first used by the late Jomon maritime hunter-gatherers as a campsite for intensive hunting and processing, while it was used as a human burial area and dog butchering site during the Okhotsk period. The first BHAP excavations in summer 2011 confirmed the high research potential of the Hamanaka 2 site.…”

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Palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island and their potential for improving the chronological control and understanding human–environment interactions in the Hokkaido Region, Japan

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Rebun Island with Hamanaka and Funadomari among the 43 documented archaeological sites and the environmental archive stored in the Lake Kushu sediment proves to be one of the key areas to study the interplay between ecology, climate and human activities. This paper focuses on the potential of palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island for improving the chronological control and understanding of late Quaternary climate changes and habitation environments of northern hunter-gatherers in the Hokkaido Region of Japan. A set of 57 radiocarbon dates of the RK12 core (Lake Kushu) demonstrates that it represents a continuous environmental archive covering the last c. 17,000 years. The RK12 pollen record reflects distinct vegetation changes associated with the onset of the lateglacial warming about 15,000 cal. yr BP and the cold climate reversal after c. 13,000 cal. yr BP. The onset of the current Holocene interglacial after c. 11,700 cal. yr BP is marked by a major spread of trees. The middle Holocene ( c. 8000–4000 cal. yr BP) is characterized by a major spread of deciduous oak in the vegetation cover reflecting a temperature increase. A decline of oak and spread of fir and pine is recorded at c. 2000 cal. yr BP. After c. 1100 cal. yr BP, arboreal pollen percentages decrease, possibly linked to intensified usage of wood during the Okhotsk and Ainu culture periods. The results of diatom analysis suggest marshy or deltaic environments at the RK12 coring site prior to c. 10,500 cal. yr BP and a brackish lagoon between c. 10,500 and 7000 cal. yr BP. A freshwater lake developed after 6500 cal. yr BP, likely reflecting sea level stabilization and formation of the sand bar separating the Kushu depression from the sea. Plant macrofossil analysis shows use of various wild plants and also domesticated barley during the Okhotsk and Ainu periods.

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Palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island and their potential for improving the chronological control and understanding human–environment interactions in the Hokkaido Region, Japan

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“…However, the composition of occupation surfaces is determined by variable and complex sets of interactions between a wide range of processes (Carr, 1984;Gé et al, 1993;LaMotta and Schiffer, 1999;Wandsnider, 1996). Most floor formation processes are cultural: intentional or accidental human actions that result in the deposition and/or removal of particular artefacts and residues -especially larger objects, which tend to be removed, dumped, redistributed or cached when activity areas or buildings are being cleaned or abandoned (Lange and Rydberg, 1972;Sakaguchi, 2007;Stevenson, 1982;Tani, 1995;Tomka, 1993). But there is also a range of natural processes that can alter the composition of occupation deposits with the passage of time, as they become subject to the same physical, chemical, and biological processes that affect local landforms and soils (Brink, 1977;Johnson and Hansen, 1974;Rolfsen, 1980;Schiffer, 1996;Stein, 1983;Wood and Johnson, 1978).…”

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Floor formation processes and the interpretation of site activity areas: An ethnoarchaeological study of turf buildings at Thverá, northeast Iceland

Milek¹

2012

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

112

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a b s t r a c tThe importance of identifying activity areas on archaeological sites has focussed much ethnoarchaeological and geoarchaeological research on floor formation processes, especially the cultural practices and preservation conditions affecting the distributions of artefacts, organic residues, and elements. In order to broaden the understanding of site formation processes in northern regions, an ethnoarchaeological study integrating geoarchaeological methods was conducted at abandoned 19th-and early 20th-century turf buildings at the farm of Thverá, northeast Iceland. Micromorphological analysis of the floor deposits in different rooms, compared to the former resident's descriptions of how space had been used and how floors had been maintained, revealed that only a few activities resulted in the accumulation of residues that were diagnostic of how space had been used on a daily basis. Instead, floor layers were dominated by residues associated with maintenance events, such as the intentional spreading of ash, and the laying of fresh turf.

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“…While previous 813 work has cautioned about the extraordinary 814 costs associated with fine-grained analyses 815 of microrefuse (Metcalfe and Heath, 1990), 816 here we show that these interpretations are 817 possible even with relatively coarse-grained 818 excavation techniques relying on a 1-x-1m grid and nested 6-mm and 3-mm mesh 820 screens. One final condition to consider con- Asia (e.g., Sakaguchi, 2007), and the Ameri- While the findings presented here are en-864 couraging, future ethnoarchaeological inves-865 tigations are needed to confirm these results 866 and examine how they vary in different con-867 texts. Existing data from extensive stud-868 ies in Africa (e.g., Yellen, 1977; O'Connell 869 et al, 1991) and Australia (e.g., Hayden, 870 1979;O'Connell, 1987) could also be used 871 to evaluate some or all of these hypotheses.…”

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Martu ethnoarchaeology: Foraging ecology and the marginal value of site structure

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Zeanah

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Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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Archaeological investigations of hunter-gatherer site structure have remained largely descriptive, despite significant explanatory advancements by evolutionary approaches to foraging behavior and ecology. To date, calls to incorporate site structure studies within this behavioral ecological framework have largely been ignored. We suggest there is a clear explanation for this. At large spatial extents, human behavior is constrained by patterned ecological variability, as such, a general theory of behavior is likely to characterize key aspects of human decisions. At small spatial extents, human behavior is not constrained by patterned ecological variability, therefore, the human decisions that produce site structure should be driven by mechanical constraints or random variation. However, variation in site structure may be ecologically relevant inasmuch as it informs on landscape level variation in humanenvironment interactions. Drawing on ethnoarchaeological data collected in collaboration with Martu, Aboriginal foragers in Western Australia, here we test empirically-derived, mechanistic predictions on site size and material size sorting to show how these can inform theoretically-derived, adaptive predictions from the Marginal Value Theorem. Results show that site size increases with the number of occupants and hence, the amount of in-patch foraging competition, while size sorting increases with the duration of occupation and hence, in-patch residence time. Combined, these attributes of site structure can be used as proxies of foraging behavior to explain variability in overall foraging yields. With this approach, site structure can provide insights into foraging decisions that can be examined through a general theory of behavior.Ecological and evolutionary approaches 2 in hunter-gatherer archaeology continue to 3 make tremendous strides toward explain-4 ing variation in subsistence (e.g., Broughton 5 et al., 2011; Speth, 2010), settlement (e.g., 6 Byrd et al., 2015; Winterhalder et al., 2010), 7 technology (e.g., Surovell, 2012; Stevens and 8 McElreath, 2015), storage (e.g., Morgan, 9 2012; Whelan et al., 2013), and demogra-10 phy (e.g., Kelly et al., 2013; Williams et al., 11 2015). But despite this progress, studies of 12 site structure remain largely descriptive (e.g., 13 Hill et al., 2011; Speth et al., 2012).14 O'Connell (1995) made this same obser-15 vation twenty years ago, noting the dispar-16 ity between ethnoarchaeological studies of 17 faunal remains and those of site structure. 18 While the former were advancing successful 19 explanatory frameworks, the latter remained 20 stagnant. O'Connell suggested a simple, yet 21 under-appreciated reason for this difference: 22 studies of faunal remains were building on the 23 foundations of a general theory which pro-24 vided predictions a priori about how individ-25 uals are expected to behave in particular cir-26 cumstances, but studies of site structure were 27 based only on observations a posteriori with-28 out any guiding theory. Because the former 29 predic...

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Refuse patterning and behavioral analysis in a pinniped hunting camp in the Late Jomon Period: A case study in layer V at the Hamanaka 2 site, Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan

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Palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island and their potential for improving the chronological control and understanding human–environment interactions in the Hokkaido Region, Japan

Palaeobotanical records from Rebun Island and their potential for improving the chronological control and understanding human–environment interactions in the Hokkaido Region, Japan

Floor formation processes and the interpretation of site activity areas: An ethnoarchaeological study of turf buildings at Thverá, northeast Iceland

Martu ethnoarchaeology: Foraging ecology and the marginal value of site structure

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