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Pit Houses of Asia – A Japanese Phase

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

David W. Chase*
Affiliation:
5712 St. Charles Street, El Paso, Texas

Extract

The discussion of pit houses in the Old World and in North America by Hiroshi Daifuku (American Antiquity, Vol. 18, pp. 1-7) prompts me to add a note concerning certain pit house sites which I explored in northern Japan during the spring and summer of 1951.

While searching the Yamagawa River Valley near Furumaki-machi in Aomori Prefecture for early Jomon sites, I encountered several pit house village sites. I had previously been advised of the general location of these by Major Howard McCord, formerly of Misawa Air Force Base, who had done considerable archaeological work in that region.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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