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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. The Jōmon period lasted more than 10,000 years, representing "sedentary pre-agricultural lifeways and a complex spiritual ...
Jōmon pottery from the Uenohara Site. Uenohara Site (上野原遺跡, Uenohara iseki) is an archeological site with the ruins of a Jōmon period settlement located in the Kokubu neighborhood of the city of Kirishima, Kagoshima, Japan. [1] It was designated as a National Historic Site in 1999. [2]
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. Pottery of roughly the same age was subsequently found at other sites such as in Kamikuroiwa and the Fukui cave. [18] [19] [20] Jōmon pottery in the Yamanashi museum
The Isedōtai Ruins (伊勢堂岱遺跡, Isedōtai iseki) are a late Jōmon period archaeological site in the city of Kitaakita, Akita Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. Discovered during the construction of a highway to nearby Odate–Noshiro Airport , the remains were designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2001 by ...
The Satohama Shell Midden (里浜貝塚) is an archaeological site consisting of a shell midden and the remains of an adjacent Jōmon period settlement located in what is now the city of Higashimatsushima, Miyagi Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site in ...
The Higashimyō ruins (東名遺跡, Higashimyō iseki) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a late early Jōmon period settlement and shell mound located in what is now the Chifu, Kinryū neighborhood of the city of Saga, Saga Prefecture, Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2016 and is where the ...
The Kakinoshima site (垣ノ島遺跡, Kakinoshima iseki) is an archaeological site consisting of a series of large shell middens and the remains of an adjacent settlement from the Jōmon period. The site is in what is now part of the city of Hakodate in Oshima Subprefecture on the island of Hokkaido in northern Japan.
Goshono ruins (御所野遺跡, Goshono iseki) is a middle Jōmon period archaeological site in the town of Ichinohe, Iwate Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. [1] Discovered during the construction of an industrial park in 1989, the area was designated a National Historic Site in 1993 by the Japanese government. [2]