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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Ōmori Kaizuka Alternative Name: 大森貝塚 Omori KaizukaCountry: Japan
NOTE: This site is 3.78 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: Honshū Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Tōkyō Nearest Village: Shinagawa-ku 品川区
Latitude: 35.593330N Longitude: 139.730410E
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 |
0 | no data |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Honshū
An American zoologist Edward S. Morse (1838-1925), one of so-called ‘oyatoi gaijin’ (=foreign scholars-engineers employed by Japanese Restoration government) found this Jōmon-era site in 1877 through the window of newly operated ‘train’ on the way from foreign settlement in Yokohama to Tokyo. This site is the starting point of Japanese archaeology.
The area was originally near the seashore but then severely developed into a residential town, the development has made exact position of the site unclear so neighbouring Shinagawa- and Ōta-wards both set up their own signposts within each territory.
A Scottish surgery Henry Faulds (1843-1930) also participated to the excavation of this site and found the fingerprints of ancient men on the excavated Jōmon pottery and he hit upon the idea of personal identification by fingerprint pattern.
Official site of Shinagawa Historical Museum in English
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