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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.
The Japanese archipelago, during the last glaciation in about 20,000 BC. Traces of Paleolithic culture, mainly stone tools, occur in Japan from around 30,000 BC onwards. [2] The earliest "Incipient Jōmon" phase began while Japan was still linked to continental Asia as a narrow peninsula. [18]
Fossil of Minatogawa Man 1, replica, exhibited in the National Museum of Nature and Science, Tokyo, Japan. All skeletons were found buried inside a vertical fissure in the limestone rock, about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) wide, which had been filled over millennia by residual red clay mixed with travertine, limestone fragments and bones.
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 ...
The Fukui Cave (福井洞窟, Fukui dōkutsu) is an archaeological site consisting of a Japanese Paleolithic period to the early incipient Jōmon period cave dwelling in the Yoshii neighborhood of the city of Sasebo, Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu, Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1978. [1]
The first human inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago have been traced to the Paleolithic, around 38–39,000 years ago. [1] The Jōmon period, named after its cord-marked pottery, was followed by the Yayoi period in the first millennium BC when new inventions were introduced from Asia.
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.