Hiroshima Prefecture

Beautiful photographs of a Jomon pit dwelling reconstructed at Furusato-mura in Kobo, Takano-Cho, Hiroshima Prefecture.

Hidetoshi Kanehira is the photographer, reporting for "Eyes on the Globe", a wonderful digital photography project.

Jomon shell-mound (and protected historical site) at southern foot of Hijiyama (Hiji hill) below Hijiyama Park in the western part of Hiroshima city. Access: Take streetcar for Ujina (via Hijiyamashita) from Hiroshima Station,10 minutes; alight at "Hijiyamashita," 10 minutes walk (see link for information source).

Thirty hectares with a History and Folklore Museum and numerous on-site reconstructions of ancient village houses. Displays from late-Pleistocene and Holocene periods onwards (Palaeolithic, Jomon, Yayoi, Kofun etc.). Can be reached by JR line. Tel. (0824) 66-2881 or -3534, Fax (0824) 66-3106. The English website is excellent.

Gout sufferers at the Ohta shell-mound in Onomichi-city, Hiroshima Prefecture (middle Jomon). Abstract from: Anthropol. Sci. 106(3), 221-228, 1998

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