著者
Ôhara Masahiro Jia Fenglong
出版者
北海道大学総合博物館
雑誌
北海道大学総合博物館研究報告 (ISSN:1348169X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.3, pp.129-150, 2006-03

Terrestrial hydrophilid beetles species (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae) occurring in the Kuril Archipelago in the northwestern Pacific are reviewed. Based on literature records, museum collections and material from recent expeditions, 17 species (including 2 unidentified) are known from this archipelago. A detail report on 5 species is given on the basis of about 1,260 adult specimens collected in the Kuril Islands by International Kuril Island Project (IKIP). IKIP was a joint Japanese-Russian-American expedition conducted between 1994- 2000.
著者
菊池 俊彦
出版者
北海道大学総合博物館
雑誌
北海道大学総合博物館研究報告 (ISSN:1348169X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.6, pp.18-26, 2013-03

Incision-patterned pottery was excavated at many archaeological sites from the Okhotsk culture dated 300 to 1300 A.D. They are similar to incision-patterned pottery excavated at numerous archaeological sites from the Tokarev culture dated 700 B.C. to 200 A.D. and the Ancient Koryak culture dated 500 to 1700 A.D., on the northern coastal area facing the Sea of Okhotsk. Such resemblances of incision-patterned potteries indicate that these ancient inhabitant groups of Sakhalin and the northern coastal area of the Sea of Okhotsk had some form of contact with each other. Susuya-type pottery peculiar to Sakhalin contains comb patterns. Pottery with comb-patterned ornamentation was excavated at not only Tokarev culture archaeological sites but also at archaeological sites of the Early Iron Age in the northwestern coastal area. In Sakhalin, however, details of the culture with comb-patterned pottery remain unknown. Recent publications reveal that comb-patterned pottery has been excavated at many archaeological sites in Northern Sakhalin and that such pottery belonged to the Nabil’ culture dated 800 to 300 B.C. and to the Pil’tun culture dated 1000 to 400 B.C., both of the Early Iron Age (cf. Fig. 2). These finds clarified the fact that the comb-patterned pottery were from the Nabil’ and Pil’tun cultures in Northern Sakhalin (Fig. 3: 1, 15). Moreover, it is estimated that the comb-patterned pottery of the Susuya-type pottery (Fig. 3: 18, 19 and Fig. 5) appeared in Southern Sakhalin through the influence of Nabil’ culture. At the Kukhtuj VII archaeological site of the Early Iron Age on the northwestern seacoast of the Okhotsk, comb-patterned pottery similar to those characteristic of the Nabil’ and Pil’tun cultures was excavated (Fig. 7: 1, 8, and 9). The age of the Kukhtuj VII site is estimated to be from 600 to 500 B.C. Comb-patterned pottery was also excavated at the Ujka site of the Early Iron Age on the northern seacoast of the Okhotsk (Fig. 8: 1, 2, 13, 14, 16, 19?26, 30?32). The age of the Ujka site is estimated to be from 1 to 500 A.D. At the Spafar’ev archaeological site of the Tokarev culture dated 700 BC to 200 A.D. on the northern seacoast of the Okhotsk, comb-patterned pottery similar to those characteristic of the Nabil’ and Pil’tun cultures was excavated (Fig. 10: 2?8). The age of the Spafar’ev site is estimated to be between 300 B.C. and 100 A.D. The comb-patterned potteries excavated at the Ujka and Kukhtyi VII sites on the northwestern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk and the Spafar’ev site on the northern coast of the Sea of Okhotsk resemble the comb-patterned pottery excavated at many sites of the Nabil’ and the Pil’tun cultures. The ages of these sites are not coincidental, being within the range of the Tokarev culture period dated 700 B.C. to 100 A.D. Therefore, it is supposed that these comb-patterned potteries at the Ujka, Kukhtuj VII, and Spafar’ev sites appeared by means of contact and mingling of inhabitants in North Sakhalin, on the northwestern and northern seacoasts of the Okhotsk. A route for traffic was most likely opened by means of contact by peoples of the Nabil’ and the Pil’tun cultures in Northern Sakhalin, by peoples of the Early Iron Age on the northwestern seacoast of the Okhotsk, and by those of the Tokarev culture on the northern seacoast of the Okhotsk; hence, this trading route provided a way for the comb-patterned pottery to be spread from Northern Sakhalin to the northwestern and northern seacoasts of the Okhotsk.
著者
三辻 利一 小野 裕子 天野 哲也
出版者
北海道大学総合博物館
雑誌
北海道大学総合博物館研究報告 (ISSN:1348169X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.4, pp.139-152, 2008-03-31

The pottery from the Kafukai 1 site on Rebun Island is a grey semi-hard ceramic which was manufactured on turn wheel and fired in a closed kiln at high temperatures. Based on typological analyses, two assumptions have been presented for the origin of the pottery: Sue pottery manufactured in Japan, and ceramic-like pottery made in the far eastern area of the Eurasian continent. In order to confirm these possibilities, the analytical data of the Kafukai-1 pottery were compared to both the Sue and ancient Pohai ceramics. The pottery from Kafukai-1 and the Pohai ceramics had high contents of K and Rb. Although the analytical data were not identical to those of the Pohai ceramics, they were found to be analogous. This, therefore, proves that the pottery could be a Pohai product. At the same time, the possibility of the Kafukai pottery being ancient Japanese Sue-ware was also surveyed. Generally the contents of Ca and Sr in hard ceramics are lower than in Haji ceramics, because in high temperatures above 1000oC, high contents of Ca obstruct the baking of hard ceramics. The date of the Kafukai pottery is inferred to be between the 6th and 7th centuries, and most of the Sue-ware kiln sites in the 6th and 7th centuries were concentrated in the Kinki and Toukai districts. Since the contents of the Kafukai pottery did not correspond to those from the Sue kilnsites, the date of the corresponding kiln was extended to the 9th and 10th centuries. The Mannendani kiln site located in Toyama Prefecture and the Ebisawa kiln site in Akita Prefecture along the Sea of Japan were selected as the corresponding kilns. Discriminatory analyses were carried out between the Mannendani and the Ebisawa kiln sites using the indices of K, Ca, Rb and Sr. Although the Kafukai pottery did not belong to either of these mother groups, the results were analogous to the Mannendani Sue-ware. Whether the pottery is a Mannendani product still remains to be proven. Further analyses of Sue materials produced in the middle and northern areas along the coast of the Sea of Japan indicated that these coastal regions were the most possible areas.
著者
中村 和之 森岡 健治 竹内 孝
出版者
北海道大学総合博物館
雑誌
北海道大学総合博物館研究報告 (ISSN:1348169X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.6, pp.58-65, 2013-03

Many glass beads have been found at archaeological sites in Hokkaido Prefecture. Two possibilities are pointed out in Japanese and Russian documents regarding the distribution of the glass beads. One theory is that they came from Honsh?, and another suggests that they were from the lower Amur Basin and came to Hokkaido through Sakhalin Island. Since the extent of literary research for these two possibilities are limited, we decided to take a different approach to obtaining information that would lead to finding the origin of the beads. We performed chemical analyses of glass beads discovered in Hokkaido by using scanning electron microscope (SEM) with energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry (EDX). Soda-lime glass beads were discovered at the sites of Epi-Jomon to Satsumon cultures in Biratori Town. Lead glass beads were discovered at those sites for dates before 1667, and soda-lime glass beads were discovered for dates after 1667 at the same sites.
著者
Fukuda Tomoko
出版者
北海道大学総合博物館
雑誌
北海道大学総合博物館研究報告 (ISSN:1348169X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.7, pp.1-7, 2014-03-31

Expedition to the southern Kuril Islands was conducted for the purpose to estimate present condition of fauna and flora of these islands. In 2009–2012, we visited Shikotan (2010),Kunashiri (2009, 2012) and Etorofu (2012) Islands under the arrangement of visa-free visit between governments of Japan and Russia. General outline of each expedition including plan, participants and studied localities are described. Key words: Etorofu (Iturup), fauna, flora, Kunashiri (Kunashir), Shikotan, southern Kurils
著者
Kanyukova Elena V. Marusik Yuri M.
出版者
北海道大学総合博物館
雑誌
北海道大学総合博物館研究報告 (ISSN:1348169X)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.3, pp.161-174, 2006-03

A list of Heteroptera species found in the Kuril Islands, a history of investigation and brief zoogeographical analysis are presented. Heteroptera were found on 24 islands of 30 studied. The check-list encompasses 236 species belonging to 27 families. The number of species found on individual islands ranges from 1 to 218 (Kunashir). The fauna of the southern islands is much more diverse than that of the northern islands. The fauna of the Kuril Islands is more diverse than the faunas of Kamchatka (110) and Sakhalin (226), but much less diverse than the fauna of Hokkaido (450). Ninety-eight species occurring in the Kuril Islands have wide ranges, 98 species are restricted in their distribution to southeast Palaearctic, and 40 species have exclusively island ranges, occurring only in the Kurils and adjacent islands. Only one species of bugs is known to occur exclusively in the Kuril Islands: Aneurillodes glaberrimus Kerzhner, 1979.