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Storage pits are underground cists that were used historically to protect the seeds for the following year's crops, and to stop surplus food from being eaten by insects and rodents. These underground pits were sometimes lined and covered, for example with slabs of stone and bark and tightly sealed with adobe .
It is thought that the dwellings of the Prehistoric inhabitants were simple structures with a log frame draped over with mats and/or skins. Such dwellings were not substantial enough to leave behind any house patterns or post molds. [1] Over 50 bowl- or wedge-shaped storage/refuse pits were encountered during excavations. It was felt that the ...
The refuse pits were thought to have first been storage pits that were converted into refuse pits once their contents began to sour. They contained animal bone, charcoal and artifacts. The roasting pits appear to correspond to what has ethnographically been described as “macoupin roasting pits” by the early French explorers Deliette and ...
Based upon the type of plant remains and animal bones, and the presence of numerous storage pits, the excavators felt that the season of occupation was fall and winter, and that the site was a semi-permanent agricultural village.
The Takizawa site is located on a hill extending east to west of the western foot of Mount Akagi.It attracted attention because of the foundations of three pit dwellings found in 1926, along with prehistoric storage pits and other artifacts such as Jōmon pottery, stone tools and ritual objects such as clay figurines.
Pits may have been used to burn pottery sherds and other items as part of a site clearing ritual when a settlement was abandoned. [113] Several of these pits are found near rocky outcrops, which seem to have had a special importance attached to them from the Early Neolithic.
It has been observed of these granaries that their "sophisticated storage systems with subfloor ventilation are a precocious development that precedes the emergence of almost all of the other elements of the Near Eastern Neolithic package—domestication, large scale sedentary communities, and the entrenchment of some degree of social ...
Pithos (/ ˈ p ɪ θ ɒ s /, [1] Ancient Greek: πίθος, plural: pithoi πίθοι) is the Greek name [2] [3] of a large storage container. The term in English is applied to such containers used among the civilizations that bordered the Mediterranean Sea in the Neolithic, the Bronze Age and the succeeding Iron Age. Pithoi were used for bulk ...