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Ikegami-Sone Site

Izumiotsu, Japan

The Ikegami-Sone site (Ikegami-Sone iseki) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a large-scale Yayoi period settlement straddling the Ikegami neighborhood in the city of Izumi and the Sone neighborhood in the city of Izumiōtsu in the Kansai region of Japan. It is a large settlement ruin with a total area of 600,000 m2, extending 1.5 kilometers north-to-south and 0.6 kilometers east-to-west. It was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1976 and has been maintained as an archaeological park since 2005.

Archaeological site data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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