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Artifacts  :  Jomon-Yayoi
Jomon
Ground axe Deep jar 1 Deep jar 2
Yayoi
Pottery Dedicated vessel 1 Dedicated vessel 2 Projectile

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Ground axe
Ground axe Age
Middle to Late Jomon Period
Location
Yoshida-South Campus
Caption

Stone axes found together with a considerable number of potsherds. The below right one, of serpentinite, 12.8cm in length and 6.2cm in width, is not only complete but less worn-off and damaged than the other two. The implication is that this one must not have been used as a mere cutting-tool.

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Deep jar 1
Deep jar 1 Age
Late Jomon Period
Location
University Hospital Campus
Caption

A tripartite vessel. Its collard rim, 34cm in diameter, has four projecting parts with the encircling lines which are bridged by paralleled lines. Cord-rolling decoration, that is "Jomon", is recognised on the rim and the main body, with the interval of the neck. These characteristics lead to assign this jar to the second half of the first stage of the Collared Urn tradition of Late Jomon Period in western Japan.

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Deep jar 2
Deep jar 2 Age
Late Jomon Period
Location
University Hospital Campus
Caption

A bipartite vessel. Outcurved rim with the edge bent inwards, 25cm in diameter, has a cordon both with 8-figure applique and numerous vertical incision. The upper half is decorated with cord-rolling impression over the incised lines of concentric triangles. This type is also a member of the Collared Urn assemblage, as mentioned above, but it is evident from its form and incised triangular motif that the interaction with the Kanto district was close.

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Pottery
Yayoi potteries Age
Early Yayoi Period
Location
Yoshida-South Campus
Caption

A typical association of the two forms in Early Yayoi Period; both are decorated with the multi-paralleled lines diagnostic of the final stage of Early Yayoi Period. A narrow-necked vessel of the right one is in addition decorated with delicate applied cordons at intervals. A deep jar of the left one measures 24cm high. The pottery of this stage is the most abundant of all Yayoi pottery found in the Kyoto University Campus Sites.

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Dedicated vessel 1
Dedicated vessel 1 Age
Middle Yayoi Period
Location
North Campus
Caption

A vessel, 34.5cm high, found in the southern ditch of a squarely-enclosed burial. The thickness of its body and base is notable. Both the external and internal surface were smoothed with the radial cut-end of a flat piece of wood, and the surface treatment was finished with burnishing on the body in-between the decorative zones of horizontally paralleled lines. These characteristics allow the vessel to be assigned to the earliest stage of Middle Yayoi Period.

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Dedicated vessel 2
Dedicated vessel 2 Age
Middle Yayoi Period
Location
North Campus
Caption

A vessel, 45cm high, found together with several complete vessels at the southwest corner of the ditch of a squarely-enclosed burial. This has an after-firing perforation at the very bottom, as often observed on dedicated pottery in prehistory. The external surface is conspicuously peeled-off, yet its heavy decoration diagnostic of the late Middle Yayoi pottery can be observed; the combination of wavy lines, horizontal lines, horizontal cordons, and a line of numbers of applied pellets.

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Projectile
Projectile Age
Middle and Late Yayoi Period
Location
Main Campus
Caption

A bronze arrowhead (right), its tip and root damaged, remaining 3.8cm in length, the body perforated after casting, is assigned to Late Yayoi Period. The shape of this cast arrowhead is not commonly found in the Kinki district but in the eastern neighbour, Tokai district. A ground stone arrowhead of Middle Yayoi Period (left) was also found at the same site. These projectiles were found from the layers of the medieval age, yet indicating the existence of a site of Yayoi Period around here.

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