Ōdai Yamamoto I Site
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Facts and practical information
The Ōdai Yamamoto I Site is an Jōmon archaeological site in the town of Sotogahama, Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. Excavations in 1998 uncovered forty-six earthenware fragments which have been dated as early as 14,500 BC; this places them among the earliest pottery currently known. As the earliest in Japan, this marks the transition from the Japanese Paleolithic to Incipient Jōmon. Other pottery of a similar date has been found at Gasya and Khummi on the lower Amur River. Such a date puts the development of pottery before the warming at the end of the Pleistocene. ()
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Aomori
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Day trips
Ōdai Yamamoto I Site – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)
Nearby attractions include: Sotogahama.