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A 20,000-year-old forest floor and campfire preserved underground exactly as excavated.
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The Sendai City Tomizawa Site Museum (仙台市富沢遺跡保存館, 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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Founded / opened：1996 Highlights / collection：Forest strata of 20,000 years ago, Remains of Paleolithic life Genre：Antique art and Buddhist art
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