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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 ...
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.
In the Kagoshima region, the Satsuma volcanic ash layer, which erupted from Sakurajima and dates back about 11,500 years ago, is a key layer for determining the age of the period, and the layer directly below this layer shows the transition from the Paleolithic to the Early Jōmon period. Analysis of pollen found at ruins suggests that ...
The Tanamukaihara Site (田名向原遺跡, Tanamukaihara iseki) [tanamɯkaiçaɾa iseki] is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Japanese Paleolithic period settlement located in the Tanashioda neighborhood of Chūō-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture in the southern Kantō region of Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site in ...
This is the border between the mountainous interior of Toyama and the coastal plains. In this vicinity there are a number of archaeological sites from the Japanese Palaeolithic to the Jōmon era, including the Nozawa site, Yagiyama Ono site, Naosaka II site, Naosaka III site, Naosaka IV site, indicating that this area has been densely populated ...
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.
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.
The Yasumiba site (休場遺跡, Yasumiba iseki) is an archaeological site with the traces of a Japanese Paleolithic period settlement located in what is now the Ashitaka neighborhood of the city of Numazu, Shizuoka in the Tōkai region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site in 1979. [1]