Postholes in Pit Dwellings of the Okhotsk Culture

Abstract

Many archaeological researchers wrote papers on pit dwellings, habitation, room arrangement, populations of a dwelling and so on of the Okhotsk Culture. However, I am interested in the roof construction of pit dwellings, which there are few papers. Therefore, I attempted to gather data on postholes in order to understand what kind of roof construction about pit dwelling of Okhotsk Culture there are. As a result, I was able to divide roof constructions into three types by the presence of the ridgepole, namely I think that two roof types on the pit dwelling of Okhotsk Culture are hip roof and gable roof.