The Kamiyamada Shell Midden

The Kamiyamada shell midden is located at a slope of hill, facing Kahoku Lagoon in Ishikawa Prefecture, about 3 km away from the open sea coastline, mainly with freshwater fish bones and shells. The site belongs to the Middle Jomon period about 5,000 to 4,000 B.P.

Publications

• Hiraguchi, T. et al., 1978, The Kamiyamada Shell Mound, The Unoke-machi Board of Education. (In Japanese)
• Hiraguchi, T., 1980, On the method of excavation of the shell-middens, Memoirs on Liberal Arts and Sciences Kanazawa Medical University, 8：1-12. (In Japanese)
• Koganezawa, M., Takasugi, K., Hirguchi, T., 1984, Coprolites found in the 4th excavation survey of the Kamiyamada shell-mound, Journal of the Ishikawa Archaeological Society, 27：25-34. (In Japanese)
• Hiraguchi, T., 1985, Water environment of the Jomon sites in Hokuriku where faunal remains were excavated, with the main discussion on the settlement pattern analysis of Kamiyamada shell-mound, Journal of the Ishikawa Archaeological Society, 28：57-78. (In Japanese)

Photographs

	A view of the site from the east.		The south hillside of the Kamiyamada shell-mound in the 4th excavation, 1976.
	The upper surface of Stratum 10 (the middle Middle Jomon), District 10 on the south hillside,		Unio douglasiae
	Cipangopaludina japonica		Corbicula japonica
	Gomphina (Macridiscus) venneriformis		Carassius carassius, Cypurinus carpio and a like of them.
	Maxillaries of Cervus, Sus, Lepus, Petaurista leucogenys, Nyctereutes procyonoides, Vulpes vulpes, Canis familiaris, Mertes Melampus and Meles meles.		6 vertebras on the left： Class Chondrichthyes Fam et gen indet. 2 vertebras on the right： Daelphinidae Delphinidae gen. et sp. indet.