Dr. Simon Kaner

This is going to be some of the best evidence that we've got for the earliest peoples living in the archipelago. We think there was probably continuity of occupation from the late Pleistocene into the Jomon period. There doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence for big new populations coming in.

So that's a very different story to say what we have in the British Isles, which we know was largely depopulated at the end of the last Pleistocene. And there are other burial sites around Japan. Unfortunately, one of the issues that we have is with all those volcanoes, the soils of Japan are very acidic. And human bone doesn't survive very well in very acidic environments.

So that's a very different story to say what we have in the British Isles, which we know was largely depopulated at the end of the last Pleistocene. And there are other burial sites around Japan. Unfortunately, one of the issues that we have is with all those volcanoes, the soils of Japan are very acidic. And human bone doesn't survive very well in very acidic environments.

So that's a very different story to say what we have in the British Isles, which we know was largely depopulated at the end of the last Pleistocene. And there are other burial sites around Japan. Unfortunately, one of the issues that we have is with all those volcanoes, the soils of Japan are very acidic. And human bone doesn't survive very well in very acidic environments.

So you have to have particular circumstances. So rock shelters and cave sites are one of them. And we know that fortunately, these prehistoric people very considerably buried their dead in some of those places. But there's also a large number of cemeteries, which have been investigated from the Jomon, and later on there are even more spectacular funeral monuments.

So you have to have particular circumstances. So rock shelters and cave sites are one of them. And we know that fortunately, these prehistoric people very considerably buried their dead in some of those places. But there's also a large number of cemeteries, which have been investigated from the Jomon, and later on there are even more spectacular funeral monuments.

So you have to have particular circumstances. So rock shelters and cave sites are one of them. And we know that fortunately, these prehistoric people very considerably buried their dead in some of those places. But there's also a large number of cemeteries, which have been investigated from the Jomon, and later on there are even more spectacular funeral monuments.

But from the Jomon we find a lot of human remains from shell middens, because shell is a calcium, obviously, very alkali, and that offsets the effect of the acid soils around about. And so we find, there are some great burial sites with Jomon, many with all sorts of wonderful grave goods and things as well.

But from the Jomon we find a lot of human remains from shell middens, because shell is a calcium, obviously, very alkali, and that offsets the effect of the acid soils around about. And so we find, there are some great burial sites with Jomon, many with all sorts of wonderful grave goods and things as well.

But from the Jomon we find a lot of human remains from shell middens, because shell is a calcium, obviously, very alkali, and that offsets the effect of the acid soils around about. And so we find, there are some great burial sites with Jomon, many with all sorts of wonderful grave goods and things as well.

There is a huge desire, or there was a huge desire within Japan to discover a decent Paleolithic period. If it's there in China, why isn't it there in Japan?

There is a huge desire, or there was a huge desire within Japan to discover a decent Paleolithic period. If it's there in China, why isn't it there in Japan?

There is a huge desire, or there was a huge desire within Japan to discover a decent Paleolithic period. If it's there in China, why isn't it there in Japan?

And in fact, it was that desire that drove the, it was a research, you know, the longstanding research programs that led to the first discovery of the Japanese Paleolithic in about 1953 at a site called Iwajuku, which is actually just up the road from the EI site that I was talking about earlier on. You can go there now. They've designed the museum in the shape of a lovely worked stone tool flake.

And in fact, it was that desire that drove the, it was a research, you know, the longstanding research programs that led to the first discovery of the Japanese Paleolithic in about 1953 at a site called Iwajuku, which is actually just up the road from the EI site that I was talking about earlier on. You can go there now. They've designed the museum in the shape of a lovely worked stone tool flake.

And in fact, it was that desire that drove the, it was a research, you know, the longstanding research programs that led to the first discovery of the Japanese Paleolithic in about 1953 at a site called Iwajuku, which is actually just up the road from the EI site that I was talking about earlier on. You can go there now. They've designed the museum in the shape of a lovely worked stone tool flake.

It's the most amazing building. There are some fantastic museums. We can talk about those later on. Und dann gab es viele interessante Arbeiten in den 70er und 80er Jahren. Zum Beispiel konnten sie eine sehr gute Sequenz für den japanischen Paläolithik zusammenstellen. Von ca. 30.000 Jahren bis zum Ende der Pleistocene.

It's the most amazing building. There are some fantastic museums. We can talk about those later on. Und dann gab es viele interessante Arbeiten in den 70er und 80er Jahren. Zum Beispiel konnten sie eine sehr gute Sequenz für den japanischen Paläolithik zusammenstellen. Von ca. 30.000 Jahren bis zum Ende der Pleistocene.

It's the most amazing building. There are some fantastic museums. We can talk about those later on. Und dann gab es viele interessante Arbeiten in den 70er und 80er Jahren. Zum Beispiel konnten sie eine sehr gute Sequenz für den japanischen Paläolithik zusammenstellen. Von ca. 30.000 Jahren bis zum Ende der Pleistocene.

Sie korrelierten die Veränderungen in den Steintooltypen mit dem Entwicklung des Kanto-Planes, welches eine Holocene-Plane-Formation ist. Man kann die Steintools mit dem Layering verändern, das die verschiedenen Statistiken entwickelt. In the Lurse that makes up the Kanto Plain.