RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Pottery Making of Sakhalin Island in Historical Dynamics: From the Neolithic to the Paleometal Period
JF Arctic Anthropology
JO Arctic Anthropol
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 42
OP 58
DO 10.1353/arc.2010.0003
VO 47
IS 2
A1 Zhushchikhovskaya, Irina
YR 2010
UL http://aa.uwpress.org/content/47/2/42.abstract
AB This paper examines the correlation between pottery-making dynamics and cultural-historical processes on Sakhalin Island, focusing on the period of transition from the Neolithic to the Paleo-metal period. Utilizing assemblages from sites of the Susuya culture and Okhotsk cultures, change can be observed in three main categories: those caused by cultural or ethnocultural interaction and evolving processes; those caused by economic innovations; and developments due to technological innovations. Evidence of these developments can be seen in the complicated progressive change in prehistoric technologies during the mid-first century to the twelfth or thirteenth centuries A.D. The bearers of the Okhotsk culture replaced Neolithic traditions entirely, adopting a new ornamental style.