5th–10th-century archaeological culture around the Sea of Okhotsk
Okhotsk culture
Geographical range
Hokkaido, the Kurils, and Sakhalin
Preceded by
Susuya culture[1]
Followed by
Tobinitai culture, Ainu culture[2]
The Moyoro Shell Midden at Abashiri, Hokkaidō, the ruins of the Okhotsk culture
The Okhotsk culture is an archaeological coastal fishing and hunter-gatherer culture that developed around the southern coastal regions of the Sea of Okhotsk, including Sakhalin, northeastern Hokkaido, and the Kuril Islands during the last half of the first millennium to the early part of the second. The Okhotsk are often associated to be the ancestors of the Nivkhs,[3] while others argue them to be identified with early Ainu-speakers.[4] It is suggested that the bear cult, a practice shared by various Northern Eurasian peoples, the Ainu and the Nivkhs, was an important element of the Okhotsk culture but was uncommon in Jomon period Japan.[5] Archaeological evidence indicates that the Okhotsk culture proper originated in the 5th century AD from the Susuya culture of southern Sakhalin and northwestern Hokkaido.[6]
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The Okhotskculture is an archaeological coastal fishing and hunter-gatherer culture that developed around the southern coastal regions of the Sea of Okhotsk...
The Sea of Okhotsk Coast (or Okhotsk Coast) is split into natural major parts according to the delineation of the Sea of Okhotsk: its northwestern part...
The Susuya culture, alternatively referred to as the earliest phase of the Okhotskculture by some scholars, is an archaeological coastal fishing and...
The Sea of Okhotsk is a marginal sea of the western Pacific Ocean. It is located between Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on the east, the Kuril Islands on...
Tobinitai culture (トビニタイ文化) is an archaeological culture of eastern Hokkaidō. It has been described as a "hybridization" of the Okhotskculture and the...
Satsumon culture period. The mainstream theory maintains that the Ainu culture originated from the local Hokkaido-Jōmon culture, a merger of the Okhotsk and...
Hokkaido and Northeast Honshu, as well as the land surrounding the Sea of Okhotsk, such as Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, the Kamchatka Peninsula, and the...
culture is regarded to be ancestral to the later Ainu culture, under some influence of the Okhotskculture. Iron tools seem to have prevailed around the end...
Okhotsk (Russian: Охотск, IPA: [ɐˈxotsk]) is an urban locality (a work settlement) and the administrative center of Okhotsky District of Khabarovsk Krai...
is ancestral to the modern Ainu people of Hokkaido including some Okhotskculture influence. Unlike the Ainu, the Emishi were horse riders and iron workers...
Koryak culture from the north, the Heishui Mohe culture from the west, and indigenous Neolithic Sakhalin culture gave birth to the Okhotskculture, which...
University, suggest that the Mishihase were the Nivkhs belonging to the Okhotskculture. Ｑ 奥尻島の意味は (in Japanese). Hokkaido Shimbun. November 9, 2002. Archived...
displaced the Okhotskculture north from southern Hokkaido when the Ainu fled Japanese expansion into northern Honshu, with the Okhotsk ancestral to the...
believe, still remain scattered about the landscape. Okhotskculture Tobinitai culture Susuya culture Nivkh people Ainu-Nivkh rivalry Penglai Mountain Saisiyat...
relatively recent expansion from Hokkaidō, displacing an indigenous Okhotskculture, which may have been related to the modern Itelmens. When the Kuril...
genetic evidence, found that the Ainu are significantly linked to the Okhotskculture of northern Hokkaido. Oral history records Ainu displacement of a people...
agreed to be linked to the Satsumon culture of the Epi-Jōmon period, with later influences from the nearby Okhotskculture. The Ainu appear genetically most...
Nanai, Nivkhs, and Northwest Coast Indians, as well as the more local Okhotskculture and Ainu. Hokkaido Museum Hakodate City Museum of Northern Peoples...
Tang in the fourteenth year of Zhenguan (640) is also documented. Okhotskculture Ptak, Roderich (2018). "Gouguo, the "Land of Dogs," on Ricci's World...
settlements on Kamchatka (from 1699), Sakhalin (1850s) and the Sea of Okhotsk Coast (1640s onwards). Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the Tokugawa...
the Shōwa era, and include materials relating to the Satsumon culture, Okhotskculture, and Ainu. The Moyoro Shell Mound Museum operates as an annex....
Satsumon culture. List of Historic Sites of Japan (Hokkaidō) Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center Ebetsu City Historical Museum Okhotskculture Ishikari...
north occupies a vast mountainous area along the coastline of the Sea of Okhotsk, a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean. Khabarovsk Krai is bordered by Magadan...
Jōmon, Zoku-Jōmon, Okhotsk, Tobinitai (トビニタイ文化), and Satsumon cultures; artefacts from the Matsunorikawa Hokugan Site (Okhotskculture) that have been designated...
the Sea of Okhotsk during 1847–1867, 80% in the first decade. Bowheads were first taken along the pack ice in the northeastern Sea of Okhotsk, then in Tausk...
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