Period of human inhabitation in Japan predating the development of pottery
Japanese Paleolithic period
35,000 BCE – 14,000 BCE
Japan at the Last Glacial Maximum in the Late Pleistocene about 20,000 years ago
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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] although any date of human presence before 35,000 BC is controversial, with artifacts supporting a pre-35,000 BC human presence on the archipelago being of questionable authenticity.[3] The period extended to the beginning of the Mesolithic Jōmon period, or around 14,000 BC.[4]
The earliest human bones were discovered in the city of Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture, which were determined by radiocarbon dating to date to around 18,000–14,000 years ago.
^Campbell, Allen; Nobel, David S (1993). Japan: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. Kodansha. p. 1186. ISBN 406205938X.
^Hoshino Iseki Museum, Tochigi Pref.
^Prehistoric Archaeological Periods in Japan, Charles T. Keally
^[1]"Ancient Jomon of Japan", Habu Jinko, Cambridge Press, 2004 [https://web.archive.org/web/20070827214726/http://www.jomon.or.jp/ebulletin11.html Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
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