Nara researcher finds oldest weights in Japan

Nara researcher finds oldest weights in Japan

NARA, Japan - Photo taken June 14, 2013 shows Susumu Morimoto, an archeologist and researcher at the Nara National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Nara City, who has discovered that what had been believed to be grinding stones from the first half of the Yayoi period, about 2,400 years ago, were actually weights for scales.

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