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Goryōgaidai Shell Mound

Hiratsuka, Japan

The Goryōgaidai Shell Mound (, Goryōgaidai kaizuka) is an archaeological site in the Hirokawa neighborhood of the city of Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, in the southern Kantō region of Japan containing a Jōmon period shell midden. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1972.

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

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