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The site is at Inome, Wanibuchimura, Hikawa Country, Shimane Pref., facing the Japan Sea. In October, 1948, the cave was found and excavated by members of the Archeological Society of Taisha. We obtained many human bones, potteries and wooden implements.
Potteries-Yayoi Potteries, Haji Potteries, and Iwaibe Potteries.
Wooden implements-Canoe, bow, scoop etc.
Shells, bones of fishes and animals, nuts and rice-hulls etc.
The skeletons are found buried in various forms, particularly, No. 14 has six shell-bracelets around the right humerus.
This cave is 36m in breadth, 12m in height and 6m length. The sand in the cave is tuff and dry. Therefore, the remains have been kept in good condition, we think.

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The site called Fumonji, Tochigi Pref., lies in the Suburbs of Kiryu City. Our digging work was made in the period from Feb. 20 to Mar 5, 1948. At 60-80cm deep underground were inbedded the most early type of Jomon Pottery sherds and above these, namely in the middle or upper layer we also found three different parts of a dwelling dug in the Loam, probably of the Moroiso type. More than three thousands pieces intact or broken pebbeles, half or full worked stone implements and sherds of pottery were collected separately from the all eighteen 2-meters squares and 4 layers representing each main part of the site.
Stone used for these implements as materials, are mainly identified to be Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks, such as chert for blade tools, sandstone for axes, and igneous rocks, such as obsidian for arrowpoints, andesite and basalt for axes and hammer stone, etc. Technically remarkable points with these is that only angular flakes were produced, and marginal chipping is all dominant. Sometimes polishing and sawing are witnessed given for axes. The types and forms are classified as follows (see Fig. 2) :
Miscellaneous pebbles and boulders unclassificable as artifacts 980
Cores utilized for the production of angular flakes 65
Raw angular flakes of small and medium size 681
Apparently utilized angular flakes 33
Flakes with more or less chipped margins 32
Flakes with marginal chipping 9
Arrow points and spear heads 30
Axes 15
Potteries of the earliest Jomon types are presented : 1) A simple type with no pattern. 2) A type of twisted cord patterns. 3) Sherds with roll-stamped patterns. 4) Mito type. 5) Upper Tado type. 6) Lower Tado type. 7) Shiboguchi type. 8) Kayama type. Generally speaking roll-stamped patters, Kayama, Kurohama and Moroiso-types form the principal part of the whole materials (see Table 3 & 4).
Of the earlier Jomon type are found : 1) Lower Hanazumi type. 2) Sekiyama type. 3) Kurohama type. 4) Moroiso type. The sherds of middle and later Jomon types and Yayoi types are rarely to be found.

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