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Toward Peopling the New World: A Possible Early Palaeolithic in Tohoku District, Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

T. E. G. Reynolds
T. E. G. Reynolds*
Affiliation:
St. Catharine's College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
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Abstract

Japan is close to the land bridge route to the Americas; therefore, any evidence of early occupation there may be relevant to the peopling of the New World. In this report I briefly discuss recent discoveries from North Japan that are claimed to have an “Early,” i.e., pre-30,000 years B.P., date.

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American Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 330 - 332
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1986

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