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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 ...
The Ōdai Yamamoto I Site (大平山元I遺跡, Ōdaiyamamoto ichi iseki) is a Jōmon archaeological site in the town of Sotogahama, Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. 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 ...
Pages in category "Archaeological discoveries in Japan" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.
The discovery of a 10th century burial ground was announced by the archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the eastern bank of the Oka river, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Russia. 8 of the burials contained the remains of four children, two women, and two men. The men's burials were adorned with an ...
The incident became one of the biggest scandals in archaeological circles in Japan after the story was published by the Mainichi Shimbun on November 5, 2000. For finds from the Jōmon period or later, structures were originally made by digging below the then-current surface, causing changes in soil composition that make it much easier to ...
The discovery, they say, may be the most significant in a series of archaeological finds made at the mouth of the Miami River in the past 25 years that include the Miami Circle National Historic ...
Buddhist archaeological sites in Japan (155 P) J. Jōmon period sites (2 C, 36 P) K. Japanese pottery kiln sites (50 P) P. Paleolithic sites in Japan (1 C, 16 P) S.
After this success, he participated in 180 archaeological digs in northern Japan and almost always found artifacts, their age becoming increasingly older. Based on his discoveries the history of the Japanese Paleolithic period was extended to about 300,000 years.