著者

江上 波夫

出版者

日本文化人類学会

雑誌

民族學研究 (ISSN:00215023)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.13, no.3, pp.278-284, 1949

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Many prehistoric forts (the so-called gorodishches) have been found in Russia, particularly in the Volga-Kama area and in Western Siberia, which some date as far back as 800 B. C., most are from the turn of the Christian era, that is, Bronze and Iron Age. They are believed to have been built by ancient Finno-Ugric peoples. These forts resemble the Aino chash or chashkot very closely, both in ground plan and construction of the forts, and in the abundant bone implements which they contain. The author is therefore inclined to conclude that ancient Finno-Ugric culture elements may have been transmitted to the Aino, or conserved by them with other Continental culture elements from the West.