UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee decided on July 27 it will register prehistoric Jomon Period archaeological sites in Hokkaido and the northern Tohoku region to the World Cultural Heritage list.

The Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c. 14,500 B.C.-1,000 B.C.) was coined as a translation of “cord-marked,” first used by Edward Morse, who in 1877 conducted one of the earliest excavations of ...

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