Ehime Prefecture

Kamikuroiwa ruins

No access information available. This location is renowned for the discovery of an clay artefact shaped like a breast, and believed to come from the Incipient Jomon period (a more recent discovery of an earlier representation of female form is described in the Japan Times, 26 April, 2000)

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