CULTURAL SEQUENCES IN HOKKAIDO MacCORD 491 



gaoka type of the Final Jomon period in Hokkaido. The Nopporo 

 ware found is thin-walled, % to % inches thick, and is uniformly of 

 bowl shape. Bowls vary from 2 inches to over 12 inches in height. 

 All are grit-tempered and flat-bottomed, and have slightly bulging 

 sides and slightly incurved rims. No spouted bowls or other ornate 

 forms were found. 



All the sherds are impressed with a cord-wrapped stick, with the 

 finer cords predominating. Designs are limited to the rim and neck 

 areas and include lines of fingertip impressions, lines of short, vertical 

 slashes filling the space between horizontal incised lines, incised lines 

 paralleling the rim, pseudocord lines paralleling the rim, geometric 

 incised patterns, notched rimtops, and in two instances small rimtop 

 enlargements bearing incised or notched designs. One strap handle 

 covered by closely spaced cord impressions was found. Bases found 

 are either plain or are cord marked. Plate 6, c-e and g-h, illustrates 

 rimsherds of Nopporo type. Two restorable bowls have the following 

 characteristics: 



Bowl 1 (411621) is 4% inches high with a plain base 4 inches in 

 diameter. The rim is incurved and is 6% inches in diameter. The 

 rimtop is round with thin, slanting incisions on the outer face of the 

 rim. The sides of the bowl are finely cord marked, while design is 

 limited to two incised lines parallel to and within % inch of the 

 rimtop. The bowl is brown on all surfaces but in a few places is 

 soot incrusted. 



Bowl 2 (411614) is identical in shape to bowl 1, but is only 3 inches 

 high. The base is cord marked and is 4 inches in diameter. The 

 rim is 7 inches across and is rounded and incurved. Design consists 

 of three pseudocord lines parallel to the rim. The ware is brown 

 with some soot incrustation. This bowl is illustrated in plate 6c. 



During the years required for the accumulation of the 14 inches of 

 humus comprising layer 3, the pottery underwent considerable change. 

 In the upper part of layer 3 was one sherd of Ebetsu type, with 

 smooth surfaces and with thin ribbons of clay bearing closely spaced 

 notches covering most of the lower part of the vase. For an illustra- 

 tion of this type, see plate 8a. Also found in layer 3 was a small 

 restorable vase (vessel 3, 411615) of smooth ware. This vase appears 

 to be related to the Haji type of pottery of the Tanaka Site, described 

 below, and of the Ogawara Pithouse Culture of northern Honshu, 

 which is protohistoric. This vase is 2% inches high, with a basal 

 diameter of 1% inches and an oral diameter of 3 inches. The sides 

 expand from tho base to the rim, which is slightly flaring. No 

 design is found on this vase, and the base is smooth, concave, and 

 slightly flanged. The vase is illustrated in plate 6/. 



