Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 112 1960 Number 3443 



CULTURAL SEQUENCES IN HOKKAIDO, 

 JAPAN 



By Lt. Col. Howard A. MacCord ' 



The present archeological field work was carried on during 1953-54 

 as a part-time project. I was assisted at times by Japanese friends 

 and hired laborers. The work was necessarily limited to the area of 

 Hokkaido lying between the Ishikari River on the north, and the 

 south coast of the island through the narrow isthmus known as the 

 Ishikari Plain (see the map, fig. 1). This area of the island is the 

 most heavily populated and the most accessible by road and railroad 

 from the capital, Sapporo, where I lived and worked. The collec- 

 tions made during these explorations have been given to the U.S. 

 National Museum (Accession No. 209693). The 6-digit number 

 that accompanies descriptions of artifacts is the Museum catalog 

 number. Field notes and unpublished photographs have also been 

 placed in the Museum. 



The explorations consisted mainly of reconnaissance trips to locate 

 new sites and to visit known archeological sites in the area. In this 

 work I was advised by two able and willing friends: Doctor S. Kodama, 

 head of the Medical Department of Hokkaido University and an 

 authority on Ainu physical anthropology; and Father Gerhardt 

 Huber, German missionary-teacher and long-time student of the 



1 Lt. Col. MacCord is a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 



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