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Jomon period woman's skull at Toyama museum

TOYAMA, Japan - The skull of a woman from the early Jomon period excavated from the Odake shell mound in Toyama City in 2008 is shown at Kitadai Jomon museum in the city on July 25, 2014.

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Emperor, empress visit Jomon museum in Nagaoka

NIIGATA, Japan - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko look at pottery from the Jomon period at Umataka Jomon Museum in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan, on May 31, 2014. (Pool photo)

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Ancient Japanese pots at British Museum

LONDON, Britain - Tamio Mori (R), mayor of Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, and Tatsuo Kobayashi, a professor emeritus at Kokugakuin University, attend a ceremony to mark the exhibition of two ancient pots dating from Japan's Jomon era at the British Museum in London on Oct. 4, 2012. The pots are being exhibited for the first time outside Japan.

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Ancient Japanese pots at British Museum

LONDON, Britain - Photo shows two ancient pots dating from Japan's Jomon era at the British Museum in London on Oct. 4, 2012. The museum began exhibiting the crown pot (L) and the flame pot (R) the same day for the first time outside Japan.

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Strong popularity may lead to curbs on climbing Yaku Island

KAGOSHIMA, Japan - Travelers flock to the Japanese Jomon cedar trees presumed to be 2,000 years old on the World Heritage island of Yaku, Kagoshima Prefecture, on June 27.

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Japan picks 5 more candidate World Cultural Heritage sites

TOKYO, Japan - This undated photo shows the Sannai Maruyama settlement site in Aomori Prefecture, one of a group of prehistoric Jomon monuments in Hokkaido and the northern Tohoku region. The Japanese government said Sept. 26 that it has picked the group and four other places as candidates for cultural heritage status on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites.

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Fire for Winter Asian Games taken

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren work to start a fire through ancient technique to light torches for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25. The eight-day sports event will open in a ceremony on Feb. 1.

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Winter Asian Games torches lit in ceremony

AOMORI, Japan - Representatives of the torch relay for the Feb. 1-8 Winter Asian Games in Aomori light torches in a ceremony held at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25.

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Aomori residents prepare for Winter Asian Games

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren try to start a fire by ancient technique, to light a torch for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori in a rehearsal at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 24. The opening ceremony for eight-day event will take place on Feb. 1.

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Winter Asian Games torches lit in ceremony

AOMORI, Japan - Representatives of the torch relay for the Feb. 1-8 Winter Asian Games in Aomori light torches in a ceremony held at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25.

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Aomori residents prepare for Winter Asian Games

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren try to start a fire by ancient technique, to light a torch for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori in a rehearsal at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 24. The opening ceremony for eight-day event will take place on Feb. 1. (Kyodo)

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Visitors take photos of Japan's oldest tree on Yakushima island

Tourists take pictures of the Jomon-sugi cedar tree on Yakushima island, a UNESCO World Heritage site off Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan, as seen in this file photo taken in October 2011. The prefectural government and the Yakushima town office plan to collect fees on a voluntary basis from visitors to Yakushima to help preserve its nature, including the tree believed to be at least 2,000 years old. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan picks 5 more candidate World Cultural Heritage sites

TOKYO, Japan - This undated photo shows the Sannai Maruyama settlement site in Aomori Prefecture, one of a group of prehistoric Jomon monuments in Hokkaido and the northern Tohoku region. The Japanese government said Sept. 26 that it has picked the group and four other places as candidates for cultural heritage status on UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites. (Kyodo)

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Fire for Winter Asian Games taken

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren work to start a fire through ancient technique to light torches for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25. The eight-day sports event will open in a ceremony on Feb. 1. (Kyodo)

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Winter Asian Games torches lit in ceremony

AOMORI, Japan - Representatives of the torch relay for the Feb. 1-8 Winter Asian Games in Aomori light torches in a ceremony held at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner passes near the Goshono archaeological site in the northeastern Japan town of Ichinohe, Iwate Prefecture, on June 16, 2021. The site is one of 17 archaeological locations dating back to the ancient Jomon Era that a UNESCO advisory panel in May recommended for inclusion on the World Cultural Heritage list.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner passes near the Goshono archaeological site in the northeastern Japan town of Ichinohe, Iwate Prefecture, on June 16, 2021. The site is one of 17 archaeological locations dating back to the ancient Jomon Era that a UNESCO advisory panel in May recommended for inclusion on the World Cultural Heritage list.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner passes near the Goshono archaeological site in the northeastern Japan town of Ichinohe, Iwate Prefecture, on June 16, 2021. The site is one of 17 archaeological locations dating back to the ancient Jomon Era that a UNESCO advisory panel in May recommended for inclusion on the World Cultural Heritage list.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay runner passes near the Goshono archaeological site in the northeastern Japan town of Ichinohe, Iwate Prefecture, on June 16, 2021. The site is one of 17 archaeological locations dating back to the ancient Jomon Era that a UNESCO advisory panel in May recommended for inclusion on the World Cultural Heritage list.

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Tokyo Olympic torch relay

A Tokyo Olympic torch relay takes place near the Goshono archaeological site in the northeastern Japan town of Ichinohe, Iwate Prefecture, on June 16, 2021. The site is one of 17 archaeological locations dating back to the ancient Jomon Era that a UNESCO advisory panel in May recommended for inclusion on the World Cultural Heritage list.

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Jomon Era villages in Japan likely to be added to World Heritage list

Photo taken May 27, 2021, shows the Sannai Maruyama archeological site, dating back around 5,900 years to Japan's Jomon Era, in the northeastern Japan city of Aomori. A UNESCO advisory panel recommended May 26 that 17 Jomon-Era ruins across Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate and Akita prefectures, including the Sannai Maruyama site, be added to the World Cultural Heritage list.

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Jomon Era villages in Japan likely to be added to World Heritage list

Photo taken May 27, 2021, shows the Sannai Maruyama archeological site, dating back around 5,900 years to Japan's Jomon Era, in the northeastern Japan city of Aomori. A UNESCO advisory panel recommended May 26 that 17 Jomon-Era ruins across Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate and Akita prefectures, including the Sannai Maruyama site, be added to the World Cultural Heritage list.

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Jomon Era villages in Japan likely to be added to World Heritage list

Photo taken May 27, 2021, shows the Sannai Maruyama archeological site, dating back around 5,900 years to Japan's Jomon Era, in the northeastern Japan city of Aomori. A UNESCO advisory panel recommended May 26 that 17 Jomon-Era ruins across Hokkaido, Aomori, Iwate and Akita prefectures, including the Sannai Maruyama site, be added to the World Cultural Heritage list.

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Japan meeting on World Heritage candidate sites

A Japanese government panel picks the Jomon Era archaeological sites in northern Japan on July 30, 2019, at a meeting in Tokyo on potential candidate sites for UNESCO World Cultural Heritage designation in 2021. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's World Heritage candidate sites

Photo taken July 30, 2019, shows the Sannai-Maruyama site in the northern Japan city of Aomori, one of 17 archaeological locations dating back to the ancient Jomon Era that the Japanese government has picked as a potential candidate site for UNESCO World Cultural Heritage designation in 2021. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's World Heritage candidate sites

Photo taken July 30, 2019, shows the Sannai-Maruyama site in the northern Japan city of Aomori, one of 17 archaeological locations dating back to the ancient Jomon Era that the Japanese government has picked as a potential candidate site for UNESCO World Cultural Heritage designation in 2021. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's World Heritage candidate sites

Photo taken July 30, 2019, shows the Sannai-Maruyama site in the northern Japan city of Aomori, one of 17 archaeological locations dating back to the ancient Jomon Era that the Japanese government has picked as a potential candidate site for UNESCO World Cultural Heritage designation in 2021. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's World Heritage candidate sites

Photo taken July 30, 2019, shows the Sannai-Maruyama site in the northern Japan city of Aomori, one of 17 archaeological locations dating back to the ancient Jomon Era that the Japanese government has picked as a potential candidate site for UNESCO World Cultural Heritage designation in 2021. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Face of woman from prehistoric Japan

Photo taken in March 2018 at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo shows a women's skull from Japan's prehistoric Jomon period, unearthed in Hokkaido, and a model face reproduced with the use of DNA technology. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ancient Japanese pot

Photo taken on Sept. 26, 2018, shows a flame clay pot dating back to the Jomon era, displayed at Umataka Jomon Museum in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ancient ruins in northeastern Japan

Tourist guides for the Sannai-Maruyama archaeological site in the northeastern Japanese city of Aomori celebrate on July 19, 2018 after a central government panel picked the Jomon Era archaeological sites in northern Japan as a potential candidate for UNESCO World Cultural Heritage designation in 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ancient ruins in northeastern Japan

Officials of Hakodate city in the northernmost Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido celebrate at the city government office on July 19, 2018, after a central government panel picked the Jomon Era archaeological sites in northern Japan as a potential candidate for UNESCO World Cultural Heritage designation in 2020. Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ancient ruins in northeastern Japan

Photo taken on July 19, 2018, shows reconstructed buildings at the Sannai-Maruyama site, a Jomon Era archaeological site in the northeastern Japan city of Aomori. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ancient ruins in northeastern Japan

Photo taken on July 19, 2018, shows a reconstructed building at the Sannai-Maruyama site, a Jomon Era archaeological site in the northeastern Japan city of Aomori. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ancient ruins in northeastern Japan

File photo taken in June 2013 shows reconstructed buildings at the Sannai-Maruyama site, a Jomon Era archaeological site in the northeastern Japan city of Aomori. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's clay pots to be lent out to British Museum

Photo taken Oct. 3, 2016, at the Japanese Embassy in London shows a clay pot, which was created around 5,000 years ago in watershed areas along the Shinano River in central Japan. The pot, along with three others, has been loaned to the British Museum from the Umataka Jomon Museum in the central Japanese city of Nagaoka for three years for regular exhibitions. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fire for Winter Asian Games taken

AOMORI, Japan - Two elementary schoolchildren work to start a fire through ancient technique to light torches for the Winter Asian Games in Aomori at the Sannai Maruyama Jomon period excavation site on Jan. 25. The eight-day sports event will open in a ceremony on Feb. 1. (Kyodo)

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Lacquerware believed to be world's oldest found in Hokkaido

MINAMIKAYABE, Japan - Lacquerware believed to be the world's oldest has been unearthed in the town of Minamikayabe in Hokkaido, northern Japan, the town's board of education said June 14. The find, which dates back about 9,000 years, was unearthed from a grave in a settlement from the early Jomon period (10,000 BC through 300 BC), and comprises six objects including hair accessories and bracelets.