| Summary: | 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 ...
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