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A settled village 9,500 years old, which rewrote assumptions about when people in Japan stopped moving.
About this place
Uenohara Site (上野原遺跡, Uenohara iseki) is an archeological site with the ruins of a Jōmon period settlement located in the Kokubu neighborhood of the city of Kirishima, Kagoshima, Japan. It was designated as a National Historic Site in 1999.
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Source ja.wikipedia.org ↗Key facts
Founded / opened：1997 Highlights / collection：Remains of a 9,500-year-old settled village, Jar-shaped pottery and earrings Genre：Antique art and Buddhist art
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