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  2. Minatogawa Man - Wikipedia

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    A reconstructed model of the Minatogawa Man at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum. The Minatogawa Man or Minatogawa specimens are the prehistoric population of Okinawa, Japan, represented by four skeletons, two male and two female, and some isolated bones dated between 20,000 and 22,000 years BCE.

  3. Japanese Paleolithic - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese Paleolithic period (旧石器時代, kyūsekki jidai) is the period of human inhabitation in Japan predating the development of pottery, generally before 10,000 BC. [1] The starting dates commonly given to this period are from around 40,000 BC, [ 2 ] with recent authors suggesting that there is good evidence for habitation from c ...

  4. Shiraho Saonetabaru Cave Ruins - Wikipedia

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    The "No. 4" almost full skeleton was dated about 27,000 BP, [5] being the oldest full skeleton discovered in East Asia and several thousand years older than the skeletons of the Minatogawa people. [6] Due to the skeletons' postures, the site has been confirmed as the first graveyard in the Paleolithic age in Japan. [5]

  5. Yamashita Cave Man - Wikipedia

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    The Yamashita Cave People (山下洞人, Yamashita Dōjin) are the prehistoric humans known from many bones found in the Yamashita limestone cave located on the grounds of the Yamashita First Cave Site Park in Naha, Okinawa, Japan. The remains have been dated at 32,000±1000 years ago.

  6. List of National Treasures of Japan (archaeological materials)

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    The materials are housed in museums (32), temples (9), shrines (8) and a university (1) in 27 cities of Japan. The Tokyo National Museum houses the greatest number of archaeological national treasures, with 7 of the 50. [3] The Japanese Paleolithic marks the beginning of human habitation in Japan. [4]

  7. Jizōden Site - Wikipedia

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    The Jizōden ruins (地蔵田遺跡, Jizōden iseki) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a large-scale Yayoi period settlement located in the Goshono neighborhood of the city of Akita in the Tōhoku region of Japan. It also contains artifacts from the Jōmon period and the Japanese Paleolithic periods.

  8. Moro Heritage Site - Wikipedia

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    The Moro Heritage Site (茂呂遺跡, Moro iseki), shown on some maps as Moro Heritage or Moro Archaeological Site, is an archaeological site where stone tools from the Paleolithic Age (between 3.3 million years ago and c. 11,650 cal BP) were found in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan.

  9. Yokomine Site - Wikipedia

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    The Yokomine Site is the first Paleolithic site discovered on Tanegashima. During excavations in 1992, and traces of human habitation from the Paleolithic through the Jōmon period was discovered, including the oldest cooking site remains yet found in Japan, in the soil layer dating back approximately 30,000 years per radiocarbon dating.