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This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern ( Age of Sail and modern exploration).
Little evidence of their presence remains, as Japan's acidic soils tend to degrade bone remains. However, the discovery of unique edge-ground axes in Japan dated to over 30,000 years ago may be evidence of the first Homo sapiens in Japan. [4] Early humans likely arrived in Japan by sea on watercraft. [5]
Excavations in 1998 uncovered forty-six earthenware fragments which have been dated as early as 14,500 BC (ca 16,500 BP); this places them among the earliest pottery currently known. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As the earliest in Japan, this marks the transition from the Japanese Paleolithic to Incipient Jōmon . [ 4 ]
The study of the Paleolithic period in Japan did not begin until quite recently: the first Paleolithic site was not discovered until 1946, right after the end of World War II. [1] Due to the previous assumption that humans did not live in Japan before the Jōmon period , excavations usually stopped at the beginning of the Jōmon stratum (14,000 ...
Oldest city in the Canadian Prairies. Charlotte: Province of North Carolina United States: 1768 AD Area said to have been pre-colonially settled by the Catawba tribe with records dating back to 1567. San Diego: New Spain United States: 1769 AD Birthplace of California and oldest city on the West Coast of the United States. Toronto: Upper Canada ...
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
The Emishi , also called Ebisu and Ezo, were a people who lived in parts of northern Honshū in present-day Japan, especially in the Tōhoku region. The first mention of the Emishi in literature that can be corroborated with outside sources dates to the 5th century CE, in which they are referred to as máorén (毛人—"hairy people") in ...
The oldest koseki fragments - which were reused as reinforcement papers (Shihai Monjo (紙背文書, scroop document)) in Shōsōin (正倉院) - records names, ages and estates of people including slaves (e.g. 1,119 persons were recorded for the village named Hanyū (present day Tomika-chō (富加町)) in 702)).