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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Yayoi Alternative Name: 弥生二丁目遺跡 弥生2丁目遺跡Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 14.959 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Bunkyō-ku (Tōkyō pref.) Nearest Village: Yayoi 弥生
Latitude: 35.716180N Longitude: 139.762730E
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
0 | No data. |
5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Honshū
The prehistoric period in Japan called "Yayoi Jidai (jidai=peroid,age,era)", which succeeded Paleolithic and "Jōmon Jidai" respectively, is named after the place name of this area where Yayoi-styled pottery which is characteristic of this period was discovered in 1884. Now the buildings of the Faculty of Engineering of Tōkyō University stand on the excavated point, and a monumental tablet stands on the nearby roadside (the coordinates above indicates the point of this tablet).
2 of the pottery discoverers, Shōgorō TSUBOI (坪井正五郎 1863-1913, later became an anthropologist) and Mitsutarō SHIRAI (白井光太郎 1863-1932, later became a botanist) both were the student of the Faculty of Science, later argued over Yoshimi Hyakuana: SHIRAI supposed it is rock-cut-tombs and TSUBOI insisted it is cave residences of the imaginary dwarfs
'Korpokkur (コロポックル)' which appear in the aboriginal Ainu people's legend. Until TSUBOI's death in Russia, nobody else but SHIRAI could state any objections to crazy doctrine of pioneer of Japanese archaeology.
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