A Human Skeletal Remain from the Earliest “Jomon” Period in Prehistoric Japan

Abstract

The skeletal remain was excavated from Wakamatsu-cho, Yokosuka City, a site known as the Hirasaka shellmounds, by Asst. Porf. S. SUGIHARA of Meiji Univ. and others, on June l and 2, 1949. The remain was buried shallow in the loam. below the layers of she11, together with other cultural finds of the “Inaridri” type, which belong to the earliest “Jomon” period of prehistoric Japan. Therefore this has so far been the only human skeletal discovery of the most ancient period of Japan.