Special Contributed Reports
Age of Paleolith from the Sunabara Site, Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture, Western Japan
2010 Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages 47-51
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2010 Volume 4 Issue 2 Pages 47-51
On August 8th in 2009, the author discovered an artificial flake made of agate from the outcrop of Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5e marine terrace at Sunabara site, Izumo City, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan. This site is situated at 35° 17' 22.3" N and 132° 37' 55.3" E. Following the preliminary survey by our group between 22nd and 24th in August, trenching excavation was carried out from 16th to 29th in September. A total 21 stone artifacts such as a scraper, a pointed scraper and a flake made of rhyolite, quarts and agate, were found from paleosol VIb. As paleosol VIb can be correlated with MIS 5e, it is assumed that those are the earliest one in Japan.
