愛媛県城川町黒瀬川洞発掘調査報告

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Kurosegawa Cave is located on a limestone cliff overlooking the Kurosegawa river at Oriai, Shirokawa-cho, Higashi-Uwa-gun, Ehime Prefecture, Shikoku. The cave was selected for excavation from palaeoanthropological and palaeoecological points of view, since it had yielded a few artifactual materials on the occasion of previous speleological survey and two early Jomon Period cave sites yielding well-preserved human skeletal remains had been found in its vicinity. The excavation was carried out in the summer of 1975 with the co-operation of local archaeologists and students. Four square meters were excavated and about 2.6 cubic meters of cave deposits were inspected. Although a few pieces of chert and a number of small fragments of non-human animal bones were recovered, unambiguous evidence of human habitation was not detected in the 1975 excavation. The ground plan and cross-sections of the cave and the trenches (Fig. 1), methods of excavation (Fig. 2,3), description of the deposits, results of the soil analysis (Fig. 4), description and discussion of the chert pieces (Fig. 5), and the list of the faunal remains have been recorded in this report.
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