Chipped stone tools

Japan­ese Pale­olith­ic: Dis­cov­er the Aston­ish­ing Lega­cy of Japan’s Ice Age Pio­neers The Japan­ese arch­i­pel­ago, a sweep­ing chain of islands revered glob­al­ly for its ancient samu­rai his­to­ry and serene, metic­u­lous­ly cul­ti­vat­ed gar­dens, guards a far deep­er secret—a foun­da­tion­al nar­ra­tive root­ed in the pro­found envi­ron­men­tal trans­for­ma­tion of the Ice Age. To under­stand Japan’s ear­li­est exis­tence, one must…