Deep History of Northeast Asia: Korean Peninsula, Japanese Archipelago, and Connected Seas
Northern Honshu and Tsugaru Peninsula · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Odai Yamamoto and earliest Jōmon-period contexts

大平山元遺跡 / Odai Yamamoto site

Early pottery fragments, stone tools, hearth-related evidence, and changing postglacial environments illuminate mobile lifeways near the Pleistocene-Holocene transition.

Terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene archaeological, pottery, mobility, and environmental context Approximately 13,000 BCE and later early Jōmon-period activity, subject to calibrated dating ranges Radiocarbon dating, pottery fragments, lithic technology, features, stratigraphy, environmental reconstruction, and comparison among northern Jōmon sites Odai Yamamoto I archaeological site; one early occupation context, not an origin point or ethnic homeland
Resumo

Evidências, paisagens, escala comunitária, organização política e conexões

Conexões peninsulares, insulares, fluviais, costeiras e marítimas

Postglacial vegetation, rivers, coast access, stone sources, seasonal resources, and mobility shaped occupation in northern Honshu.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Small mobile groups organized food collection, toolmaking, fire use, and movement; the evidence does not reveal a centralized polity or one Jōmon social system.

Transformação posterior, património vivo e recepção moderna

Local and national institutions conserve the site. Its early date does not make it the sole origin of later Japanese, Ainu, Jōmon, or other identities and cannot establish ancestry.

Key evidence early pottery with stone tools

Pottery does not independently demonstrate farming, ethnicity, or permanent settlement.

Current site record [S1] [S2]
Chronology terminal Pleistocene

Published dates are calibrated ranges and remain evidence-specific.

Reviewed 2026 [S2] [S3]
Interpretive scale small occupation context

The assemblage cannot stand for every Jōmon-period community.

Current archaeology [S1] [S3]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Early pottery and stone-tool activity

    People used pottery and lithic tools amid terminal Pleistocene environmental change.

  2. Northern lifeways diversify

    Communities responded locally to vegetation, coastlines, rivers, and resource change across a wider regional sequence.

  3. Excavation and dating refine interpretation

    Scientific dating and assemblage study made the site important to debates over early pottery chronologies.

  4. Serial World Heritage inscription

    Odai Yamamoto joined sixteen other sites illustrating long and regionally varied Jōmon-period lifeways.

Cultura e língua

Famílias, subsistência, trabalho, língua, crenças, artesanato, intercâmbio e mobilidade

Línguas mencionadas neste perfil

  • No deciphered written-language evidence
  • Pottery and stone tools cannot identify spoken language

Família linguística: Unknown from the site evidence

Pottery appears in a mobile lifeway rather than a simple farming package.

Radiocarbon ranges require calibration and contextual interpretation.

A small excavated assemblage cannot represent all northern communities.

Elite tombs, palaces, inscriptions, court chronicles, imported objects, and state heritage narratives are often more visible than households, women, children, fishers, farmers, craftspeople, migrants, captives, enslaved or coerced people, and rural communities. Evidence gaps must not be filled with civilizational hierarchy, ethnic purity, empty-land, foreign-founder, or simple population-replacement narratives.

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Fontes usadas nesta página

Prefer living Ainu and Nanai institutions, Korean and Japanese national and regional heritage authorities, museums, UNESCO records, and accountable archaeological projects. Register inscriptions and later chronicles with date, genre, language, audience, and viewpoint. Do not register Wikipedia or add artifact, sacred-site, tomb-interior, burial, or human-remains imagery without per-file licensing, attribution, access-policy, community, and ethical review.

  1. C1

    Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International archaeological heritage record · 2021; current record

  2. C2

    Petroglyphs along the Bangucheon Stream

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International archaeological heritage record · 2025; current record

  3. C3

    Petroglyphs of Sikachi-Alyan

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · State-submitted archaeological heritage record · 2003; current tentative-list record

  4. C4

    Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International archaeological heritage record · 2000; current record

  5. C5

    Complex of Koguryo Tombs

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International archaeological and conservation record · 2004; current record

  6. C6

    Mozu-Furuichi Kofun Group

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International archaeological heritage record · 2019; current record

  7. C7

    Japan World Heritage properties

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International heritage directory including Asuka-Fujiwara and Nara · Current state-party record

  8. C8

    National Ainu Museum

    Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park · Living Ainu cultural and museum institution · Current institutional resource

  9. C9

    National Museum of Korea

    National Museum of Korea · National museum research and collections resource · Current institutional resource

  10. C10

    National Museum of Japanese History

    National Institutes for the Humanities · National historical and archaeological research museum · Current institutional resource

  11. C11

    Sacred Island of Okinoshima and Associated Sites in the Munakata Region

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International archaeological and sacred-landscape record · 2017; current record

  12. C12

    Baekje Historic Areas

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International archaeological heritage record · 2015; current record

  13. S1

    Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · International serial archaeological heritage record · 2021; current record

  14. S2

    Odai Yamamoto Site

    Jomon Prehistoric Sites World Heritage Promotion Office · Official archaeological-site interpretation · Current official site resource

  15. S3

    Jomon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan

    Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan · National archaeological synthesis · Current official thematic resource

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Revisión editorial: 5 agosto 2026