Report RECENT JAPANNORTHWEST COAST WET SITE EXCHANGES英文资料.pdfVIP

Report: RECENT JAPAN-NORTHWEST COAST WET SITE EXCHANGES By Dale Croes, South Puget Sound Community College and Amy Homan, Katzie Development Corporation and Simon Fraser University with contributions by Jason Channel, SPSCC, Eva Marie Fuschillo, SPSCC TESC, Kathleen Hawes, TESC, and Olivia Ness, TESC. Wet site preservation of basketry and acorn pits on both sides of the Pacific Rim has recently expanded a mutual interest and exchange between Japanese and Northwest Coast Archaeologists. When Dr. Dale Croes’ South Puget Sound Community College (SPSCC) and Dr. John Fagan’s Archeological Investigation Northwest (AINW) crews found numerous acorn leaching pits, some with baskets in them, at the Sunken Village Wet Site (35MU4) on Sauvie Island, Portland Oregon in 2006, Dr. Croes e-mailed pictures to wet site archaeologist and WARP Pacific Representative Dr. Akira Matsui, Director, Center for Archaeological Operations, Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, National Institutes for Cultural Heritage. Dr. Matsui had been helping to direct the excavation of the 7000 BP+ Higashimyo Jomon wet site, revealing hundreds of acorn storage pits with preserved baskets often in them, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. He offered to assist and sponsor further investigations of Sunken Village with SPSCC and AINW through an international grant, bringing 4 colleagues to help with a detailed mapping of over a hundred acorn leaching pits in the fall of 2007. The Sunken Village research synthesis is now reported in the Journal of Wetland Archaeology (JWA) as a special volume 9 (Croes, Fagan and Zehendner 2009—see announced under Publications; web site for order: /bookinfo.cfm/ID/86051//Location/DBBC ). To expand exchanges and visits to wet site collections and sites on both sides of the Pacific, mutual visits occurred in the Spring of 2009 by Japanese archaeologists to NW museums and collections in Washington and Canada, followe