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2. Jōmon people - Wikipedia

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   Jōmon (縄文, Jōmon), sometimes written as Jomon (American English /ˈdʒoʊˌmɑːn/ JOH-mahn, British English /ˈdʒəʊmɒn/ JOH-mon), [11] literally meaning "cord-marked" or "cord pattern," is a Japanese word coined by American zoologist, archaeologist, and orientalist Edward S. Morse in his book Shell Mounds of Omori (1879) which he wrote after he discovered sherds of cord-marked ...

3. Torihama shell mound - Wikipedia

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   It is a waterlogged midden site that was occupied mainly from the Incipient Jomon period to the Early Jomon period from 12,000 to 5,000 years ago (10,000–3,000 BC). [ 2 ] The site is located in the area of Lake Mikata, one of the Mikata five lakes , near the confluence of Hasu and Takase Rivers, within the borders of the Wakasa Wan Quasi ...

4. Jōmon period - Wikipedia

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   Incipient Jōmon pottery (14th–8th millennium BC) Tokyo National Museum, Japan Jomon flame-style pottery, 3,000 BC, excavated at the Iwanohara site, Niigata Prefecture. The earliest pottery in Japan was made at or before the start of the Incipient Jōmon period. Small fragments, dated to 14,500 BC, were found at the Odai Yamamoto I site in 1998.

5. Midden - Wikipedia

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   A closeup of a shell midden in Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. A midden [a] is an old dump for domestic waste. [1] It may consist of animal bones, human excrement, botanical material, mollusc shells, potsherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occupation.

6. Forgotten Navy waste dump holds up repairs at Radford High School

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   Underneath the athletic fields and parking lots around Radford High and Makalapa Elementary School lies a long-forgotten waste dump site used by the U.S. military during World War II. 1 /3 JAMM ...

7. Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan - Wikipedia

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   Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan (北海道・北東北の縄文遺跡群) is a serial UNESCO World Heritage Site consisting of 17 Jōmon-period archaeological sites in Hokkaidō and northern Tōhoku, Japan.

8. EPA says fire burning inside an L.A. County landfill poses ...

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   The landfill's operator, Waste Connections Inc., says many of the EPA directives are already in the process of being implemented. Although tests showed benzene levels in excess of federal ...

9. Bosnian river's floating waste dump threatens health, tourism

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   Visitors to the otherwise picturesque historic town of Visegrad in eastern Bosnia are first greeted by the sight of a huge floating waste dump caught in the deep turquoise waters of the Drina ...