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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 the remains of a late Jōmon period settlement.
It is not known why such tools were created so early in Japan. [9] Because of this originality, the Japanese Paleolithic period in Japan does not exactly match the traditional definition of Paleolithic based on stone technology (chipped stone tools). Japanese Paleolithic tool implements thus display Mesolithic and Neolithic traits as early as ...
Kōgasaka Stone Age Site (高ヶ坂石器時代遺跡, Kōgasaka sekki-jidai iseki) is the collective name for three middle Jōmon period settlement traces located in the Kōgasaka neighborhood of the city of Machida, Tokyo in the Kantō region of Japan. It received protection as a National Historic Site in 1926. The designation was modified in ...
A large stone tool with double-sided processing, thought to be one of the oldest stone tools known in Kyushu, was excavated from the lowest layer, the 15th layer. [ 9 ] From February 2011 to 2016 the cave was re-excavated by digging a 6 meter trench and analyzed using recent technology.
The Shimozato-Aoyama Stele Production Sites (下里・青山板碑製作遺跡, Shimozato-Aoyama itabi seiskau iseki) are archaeological sites that contain the remnants of stone quarrying and production facilities for itabi stone stele from the Kamaura through Muromachi period, located in the Shimozato and Aoyama neighborhoods of Ogawa, Saitama, in the Kantō region of Japan.
Believers buried scriptures and images to gain merit and to prepare for the coming Buddha. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] This practice, which continued into the Kamakura period , required the transcription of sutras according to strict ritual protocols, their placement in protective reliquary containers and burial in the earth of sacred mountains, shrines or ...
The main stone bears a calligraphic inscription (8 lines of 19 characters) which is influenced by the Northern Wei robust style. Asuka period, end of the 7th century inscription on stone, height without hat stone: 120 cm (47 in), width: 43.5–48 cm (17.1–18.9 in), hat stone 51 cm x 51 cm x 30 cm (20.1 in x 20.1 in x 11.8 in)