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Yamazaki Shell Mound

Yamazaki Kaizuka-chō, Japan

The Yamazaki Shell Midden (Yamazaki kaizuka) is an archaeological site in the Yamazaki-Kaizuka neighborhood of the city of Noda, Chiba Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan containing a Jōmon period shell midden and settlement ruin. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1976, with the area under designation expanded in 1995.

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

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