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Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum

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Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum
Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

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The Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum (Sendai-shi Tomizawa iseki hozonkan) is an archaeology museum in the city of Sendai in northern Japan that preserves a fossilized forest, where the remains of human habitation that occurred 20,000 years ago were discovered during surveying work in 1988. The museum opened in 1996.

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