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| | History of Japan - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography |
 | | Following the last ice-age, around 12,000 BCE, the rich ecosystem of the archipelago apparently fostered human development rather earlier than in other geographical areas, yielding the earliest known pottery containers. |
 | | The Japanese Paleolithic covers a period from around 100,000 BCE, the date of the earliest stone tool implements that have been found, to around 12,000 BCE, at the end of the last ice age, which corresponds to the beginning of the Mesolithic Jomon Period. |
 | | According to disputed archeological evidence, the Jomon people created the first known pottery type in the world, dated to the 11th millennium BC ["The earliest known pottery comes from Japan, and is dated to about 10,500 BCE.] |
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