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The Futagoyama Stone Tool Production Site (二子山石器製作遺跡, Futagoyama sekki-seisaku iseki) is an archaeological site with the traces of a late Jōmon period stone tool production site, located in the Nonoshima neighborhood of the town of Kōshi, Kumamoto Prefecture Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1972. [1]
Suarashi Stone Age Site interior. The Suarashi Stone Age Site (寸沢嵐石器時代遺跡, すあらしせっきじだいいせき, Suarashi-sekki-jidai iseki) is an archaeological site in the Suwarashi neighborhood of Midori-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, in the southern Kantō region of Japan containing a late Jōmon period settlement trace.
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 ...
The Takizawa Stone Age Site (瀧沢石器時代遺跡, Takizawa sekki-jidai ato) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a Jōmon period settlement located in what is now the Akagi neighborhood of the city of Shibukawa, Gunma Prefecture in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan ...
Over 180 stone tools were found in this layer, with materials including chert, obsidian, andesite, shale, hornfels, and agate. The finds included two stone arrowheads, eight blades, four tools for cutting wood, and many lithic flakes and lithic cores. The stone tools found in this layer are smaller than those found in the Iwajuku I layer.
Suarashi Stone Age Site is located on a fluvial terrace facing the confluence of the Sagami River and the Doshi River, which is now dammed by Lake Sagami.An archaeological excavation was conducted in 1928 after stones were found by a farmer plowing his fields, and the remains of a flagstone-floored Jōmon period pit dwelling was confirmed.
The stone tools may have been made by Australopithecus afarensis, the species whose best fossil example is Lucy, which inhabited East Africa at the same time as the date of the oldest stone tools, a yet unidentified species, or by Kenyanthropus platyops (a 3.2 to 3.5-million-year-old Pliocene hominin fossil discovered in 1999).
1965 stone tools from a paleolithic site. Upper Paleolithic, 13,000–28,000 BC Shirataki Iseki, Engaru, Hokkaidō: Engarucho Buried Cultural Property Center, Engaru, Hokkaidō: Hollow clay figure (土偶, dogū) [42] [43] At 41.5 cm (16.3 in) biggest hollow clay figure in Japan