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Isoma Rock Shelter Site

. The Isoma Rock Shelter Site (Isoma iwakage iseki) is an archaeological site with a Kofun period mass grave located in what is now the Minato neighborhood of city of Tanabe in Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. It received protection as a National Historic Site in 1979.

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