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Chōjagahara Site

Itoigawa, Japan

Chōjagahara Site
Chōjagahara Site. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The Chōjagahara Site (Chōjagahara Iseki) is an archaeological site containing the remnants of a middle Jōmon period settlement located in the Ichinomiya neighborhood of the city of Itoigawa, Niigata in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1971, with the area under protection expanded in 1985.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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