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No. 47 Plate No. of the report No publication Description Pit House 10, excavation in 2003 Photographed year 2003 Size 6×9 Comment Pit House 10 was researched from 2003 to 2005. In 2003, the northern half of the pit house was excavated. The people in the photograph are making a plane-table survey and drawing a plan view of the carbonized wood. The right side of the photograph is the northwest direction (opening side). -
No. 48 Plate No. of the report PL. 44-2 Description Pit House 10, carbonized wood row near a wall (10a, 10b and 10c) Photographed year 2005 Size 6×4.5 Comment Carbonized wood found near the southwest wall by the west corner of Pit House 10. The front of the photograph is the southwest direction (outside of the pit house). Three rows of carbonized wood belonging to different periods can be observed. The left back row is the wall material of 10b, the central row is that of 10c, and the right front row is that of 10a. -
No. 49 Plate No. of the report PL. 45-1 Description Pit House 10, carbonized wood row near a wall (10a and 10c) Photographed year 2005 Size 6×4.5 Comment Carbonized wood near the southwest wall of Pit House 10c, which continues to the right (southeast) side of Photograph 48. The back row is the wall material (Abies sachalinensis) of 10c and the front row is that of 10a. The structure of the wall is the same as the three other pit houses. -
No. 50 Plate No. of the report PL. 45-2 Description Pit House 10, carbonized wood row near a wall (10a and 10c) Photographed year 2005 Size 6×4.5 Comment Carbonized wood near the south corner of the southwest wall of Pit House 10c, which continues to the right (southeast) side of Photograph 49. The front of the photograph is the southwest direction (outside of the pit house). The back row is the wall material of 10c, and the front row is that of 10a. The structure of the wall is the same as the three other pit houses. -
No. 51 Plate No. of the report PL. 46-1 Description Pit House 10, carbonized wood row near a wall (10c) Photographed year 2005 Size 6×4.5 Comment Carbonized wood near the innermost wall of Pit House 10c, which continues to the right (southeast) side of Photograph 50. The structure of the innermost wall is different to the others, which do not have a ditch under the row, but is placed directly on the burnt clay floor of 10a and secured by clay and gravel. -
No. 52 Plate No. of the report PL. 41-1 Description Pit House 10a, Bone Mound a (west side) Photographed year 2005 Size 6×4.5 Comment Western area of the bone mound found in the innermost area of Pit House 10a. The back of the photograph is the innermost side. From this bone mound, animal bones including brown bear (Ursus arctos) long bones and trunk bones as well as pottery fragments and stone artifacts were found in an area measuring about 2 m × 1 m. The photograph shows brown bear long bones found in the western area of the bone mound. -
No. 53 Plate No. of the report PL. 41-2 Description Pit House 10a, Bone Mound a (east side) Photographed year 2005 Size 6×4.5 Comment Eastern area of the bone mound found in the innermost area of Pit House 10a. The back of the photograph is the innermost side. Although the majority of this bone mound consisted of brown bear (Ursus arctos) long bones and trunk bones, there were no brown bear skulls. A few other animal bones, such as sea mammal and bird bones were also found. -
No. 54 Plate No. of the report PL. 42-1 Description Pit House 10a, excavated pottery Photographed year 2004 Size 6×4.5 Comment Pottery shards found near the southwest corner of the U-shaped clay floor of Pit House 10a. The front of the photograph is the southwest side. One piece of Okhotsk Haritsuke-mon series pottery was found on the clay floor. -
No. 55 Plate No. of the report PL. 42-2 Description Pit House 10b, excavated artifacts Photographed year 2004 Size 6×4.5 Comment Artifacts found in the northeast corner of Pit House 10b. The front of the photograph is the west side, and the carbonized wood, which is the wall of 10b, can be seen in the left side. In this area, pottery fragments and stone artifacts, and animal bones (for example antler) were found in a group. -
No. 56 Plate No. of the report PL. 43-1 Description Pit House 10c, excavated artifacts Photographed year 2003 Size 6×4.5 Comment A concentration of bones found in the floor near the wall to the east of the opening side of Pit House 10c. In an area measuring about 0.5 m × 1.2 m, animal bones—which are considered to belong to whales (Cetacea)—were found in a group. -
No. 57 Plate No. of the report PL. 43-2 Description Pit House 10c, excavated gravel Photographed year 2003 Size 6×4.5 Comment Gravel and some other artifacts found to the southeast (innermost side) of Hearth c of Pit House 10c. In an area measuring about 1.6 m × 1.1 m, a lot of gravel and stone tools, animal bones—considered to be whale bones—and pottery fragments were found in a group. -
No. 58 Plate No. of the report Front2-2 Description Pit House 10c, Bone Mound c Photographed year 2005 Size 6×4.5 Comment A bone mound found in the innermost area of Pit House 10c. The back of the photograph is the innermost side. In an area measuring about 1.5 m × 2 m, animal bones, pottery fragments, stone artifacts, and so on were found. The majority of the animal bones were raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) skulls, and there were only few brown bear (Ursus arctos) bones. The Hokuto-type pottery found in the upper part of the bone mound was identified as accompanying the bone mound. -
No. 59 Plate No. of the report PL. 44-1 Description Pit House 10, Hearth a and Hearth c Photographed year 2003 Size 6×4.5 Comment In Pit House 10, three hearths were found around the center of the pit house (Hearths a, b and c). The center of the photograph shows Hearth c, which is stone lined for about 1 m and accompanies Pit House 10c. The parts of the stone lines to the northeast (back) side of that belong to Hearth a, which seems to accompany Pit House 10a. Hearth a was mostly destroyed by Hearths b and c. -
No. 60 Plate No. of the report PL. 46-2 Description Pit House 10 (overall view) Photographed year 2005 Size 6×9 Comment After the excavation of Pit House 10. It can be seen that three pit houses (10a, 10b and 10c) were reconstructed by scaling down and the moving back and forth of their living area. All three have a hexagonal form with a long axis measuring more than 11.2 m (10a), 9 m (10b), and 7.9 m (10c). The right side of the photograph is the northwest direction (opening side).