Shinpukuji Shell Mound

Japan

The Shinpukuji shell mound (, Shinpukuji kaizuka) is an archaeological site in the Iwatsuki neighborhood of the city of Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan containing a late Jōmon period shell midden and settlement ruin. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1975, with the borders extended in 2002 and again in 2016.

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