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Kaizuka (shell mound)
` number of kaizuka (shell mounds) have been discovered all around japan,
aones of animals and fishes Cstone tools and pottery shards are excavated
from these shell mounds ,whice help us to reconstrust ancient way of life.
Torihama Shell Mound was formed between
PQD000@and 5D500 years ago.
@ht is a waterlogged site where archaeological remains are@found under
thawaterlevel. This particular condition help preserve organic remains,
which usually decompose over time .
shus sorihama rhell lound is just like a natural archive where archaeological
remains are stored in an exceptional condition.
Shell @
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@thought to be garbage trash of
the ancient people, because many objects used in daily life are found from
shell mounds.
Various plant remains (woods, leaves, seeds, bulbs, nut shells and pollens),
animal remains (mammal bones, fish bones, coprolites, insects) and artificts
(wood crafts, pottery, stone tools, basketry, ropes as well as worked shells,
bones and antlers) were discovered from Torihama Shell Mound.
All these archaeological remains now freshly revive in fromt of us in their original shapes..B
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