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This paper discusses 64 examples of dolphin articulated vertebras excavated from 6 ~15m excavation grid (with an additional 1/2u for one unit) in Stratum ]T(c.5000B.P.)Cthe District T at the Mawaki site. My analysis is based on the three proceedings: to@identify as accurately as possible the positions of the subjects in the vertebral series, to measure the greatest length of Corpus vertebrae, the greatest breadth of Fossa vertebrae
and the height of Fossa vertebrae , and to examine the degrees of
fusion at@the cranial or caudal extremities. The result is that only three
sets of articulated@vertebras were identified as those of the same or
presumably the same individuals. The humeri pair-matching has shown a similar
result. It might reasonably be supposed that@when neighboring settlements
worked together in dolphin fishing and yet the catch was@poor for their
labor mobilization, it was impossible for a settlement to have a share@of
a whole dolphin or that the useful parts divided and then distributed among
the settlements were butchered at each settlement, a resulting in the fact
that even at dumps near a butchery facing a fishery coast only a@few examples
of the same individuals were excavated. My conclusion is consistent with
the fact that the ÂPRC or ÂPTN values in the
human bone collagen at the Mawaki site are little different from those
at other Jomon-period sites on the coast of the Main Island.
(Revised for my web-site after ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCE, Vol.102-2:165, 1994) |
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