Okhotsk culture

Okhotsk culture
Geographical range	Hokkaido, the Kurils, and Sakhalin
Preceded by	Susuya culture
Followed by	Tobinitai culture, Ainu 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]

^ Junno, Ari; Ono, Hiroko; Hirasawa, Yu; Kato, Hirofumi; Jordan, Peter D.; Amano, Tetsuya; Isaksson, Sven (2022-06-20). "Cultural adaptations and island ecology: Insights into changing patterns of pottery use in the Susuya, Okhotsk and Satsumon phases of the Kafukai sites, Rebun Island, Japan". Quaternary International. Holocene Environments, Human Subsistence and Adaptation in Northern and Eastern Eurasia. 623: 19–34. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.12.001. ISSN 1040-6182. S2CID 244902084.
^ "Theme C: Learning about and enjoying the symbiosis between humans and nature from history". Mt. Apoi Geopark Promotion Concil. Japan.
^ Zgusta, Richard (2015). The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time: Precolonial Ethnic and Cultural Processes along the Coast between Hokkaido and the Bering Strait. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill. p. 91. ISBN 9789004300439. OCLC 912504787.
^ Lee, Sean; Hasegawa, Toshikazu (2013-04-26). "Evolution of the Ainu Language in Space and Time". PLOS ONE. 8 (4): e62243. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062243. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3637396. PMID 23638014.
^ Trekhsviatskyi, Anatolii (2007). "At the far edge of the Chinese Oikoumene: mutual relations of the indigenous population of Sakhalin with the Yuan and Ming dynasties". Journal of Asian History. 41 (2): 134–135. JSTOR 41933457.
^ Moiseyev, V.G. (March 2008). "On the Origin of the Okhotsk Population of Northern and Eastern Hokkaido: Cranial Evidence". Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia. 33 (1): 134–141. doi:10.1016/j.aeae.2008.04.003.

[1] Junno, Ari; Ono, Hiroko; Hirasawa, Yu; Kato, Hirofumi; Jordan, Peter D.; Amano, Tetsuya; Isaksson, Sven (2022-06-20). "Cultural adaptations and island ecology: Insights into changing patterns of pottery use in the Susuya, Okhotsk and Satsumon phases of the Kafukai sites, Rebun Island, Japan". Quaternary International. Holocene Environments, Human Subsistence and Adaptation in Northern and Eastern Eurasia. 623: 19–34. doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2021.12.001. ISSN 1040-6182. S2CID 244902084.

[2] "Theme C: Learning about and enjoying the symbiosis between humans and nature from history". Mt. Apoi Geopark Promotion Concil. Japan.

[3] Zgusta, Richard (2015). The Peoples of Northeast Asia through Time: Precolonial Ethnic and Cultural Processes along the Coast between Hokkaido and the Bering Strait. Leiden, The Netherlands: Koninklijke Brill. p. 91. ISBN 9789004300439. OCLC 912504787.

[4] Lee, Sean; Hasegawa, Toshikazu (2013-04-26). "Evolution of the Ainu Language in Space and Time". PLOS ONE. 8 (4): e62243. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0062243. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3637396. PMID 23638014.

[5] Trekhsviatskyi, Anatolii (2007). "At the far edge of the Chinese Oikoumene: mutual relations of the indigenous population of Sakhalin with the Yuan and Ming dynasties". Journal of Asian History. 41 (2): 134–135. JSTOR 41933457.

[6] Moiseyev, V.G. (March 2008). "On the Origin of the Okhotsk Population of Northern and Eastern Hokkaido: Cranial Evidence". Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia. 33 (1): 134–141. doi:10.1016/j.aeae.2008.04.003.

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