【Japanese Tour Guide’s History of Japan-3】Birth of the Japanese archipelago&The Paleolithic Period-2
hi everyone welcome to the online lecture history of japan this is toy subway hamacho station in tokyo around here you see modern buildings long long time ago animals that don’t exist today in japan were here this is a sign that tells you about it what’s that stay tuned [Music] in the last video i talked about these topics in addition i want to talk about the spin-off topic creatures let’s start right away [Music] according to jamstack the ice age and the integracial age repeated about every 100,000 years depending on temperature the sea level moved up and down and changed the shape of japanese archipelago this phenomena naturally affected the ecosystem as i mentioned there was a time when japanese archipelago was close to eurasian continent same as humans so many kinds of creatures also migrated to japan dinosaurs too like other countries fossils of them are found throughout japan at the end of this video i’ll show you a list of museums that exhibit dinosaur fossils if you have interest please check let’s talk about animals there were huge mammals in japan a species of elephant called nanzo lived in warm climate moved from south to japan about 360,000 years ago and lived up to 28,000 years ago fosses were found here and there even in tokyo that’s exactly where i showed you at the beginning of this video now monzo were here in the spring of 1976 fossils of three elephants were discovered 22 m underground at the construction site near this station wow here is a sign i was hiding nanzo was named to commemorate the work of dr nman who was the first to study elephant fossils in japan remember his name he was the godp parentent of foramagna mammoth inhabited cold climate like siberia migrated to japan and lived here from about 46,500 to 17,500 years ago fosses of nanzo and mammoth have been found in hokkaido and it is thought that the two species may have coexisted about 46,500 to 28,000 years ago many elephant fossils have been found in japan some of those were found close to stone tools it shows that people were hunting elephants speaking of hunting fishing hook made by scraping the bottom of a real shell used about 23,000 years ago were found in okinawa in 2016 this is believed to be the oldest in the world so far the excavated artifacts include scrapers and bees made of seashells indicating that a culture existed in which shells were broken and polished with sandstone to make a variety of tools and ornaments [Music] above other creatures existed in japan two young men made great discovery in 1964 guess what they found their answer is crocodile can you believe it almost perfect full body fossils of crocodile was found in tonaka city osaka prefecture scientists presume it was about 7 m length and 1.3 tons weight research shows that it lived 450,000 years ago the crocodile is called machani named after the place the fossils were found after this unbelievable discovery fossils of crocodiles lived in different periods were found in different places in osaka area the fossils of crocodiles older than machkani were found in kiada and takatki these are the places where the fossils of crocodiles were found in particular fossils dating back about 20 million years ago were discovered on the oki islands in chiman prefecture and the fossil of a primitive 120 million year old crocodilian species have been discovered in katyama fukui prefecture [Music] about 170 years ago a samurai living on amami oshima recorded that the residents had caught a crocodile years later it happened again in 1974 a crocodile was found on the rock in the southeast of the island in 2017 small crocodiles were found in kako majima right next to amami oshima so crocodiles still alive in japan nope they appear to have drifted across the ocean from southeast asia but once upon a time crocodiles lived in japan [Music] in addition to elephants and crocodiles rhinoceros existed in japan and even species of tigers ancient japan was just like wildlife safari it goes without saying that multifaceted verification based on archaeology linguistics mythology etc is of course important for deeper understanding of ancient history to derive fact about the history of the birth of japan the origin of our ancestors and the tools they used and creatures that once lived we still need to wait for further discovery by gathering state-of-the-art scientific technology like geoysics geology genetics and so on see what will happen never ending journey continues let’s move on to the next japan travel tips i want to show some places i’ve shown in this video i’m the islands are located in the south of japan this area is subtropical oceanic climate temperatures are basically warm throughout the year average temperature in summer is about 28 celsius and in winter is about 15 celsius it rains a lot fun activities here include forest walk mar activities such as snorkeling and scuba diving and kayaking through the mangroves delicious local meals there are also part of fun my recommendation is khan finely ton chicken dried shitake kinish tamago papaya pickled in miso and etc on white rice topped with chicken breast is so delicious [Music] beautiful traditional crafts of textile called oimatsumi is used for kimono purse and small items it’s a wonder that such beautiful crafts can be made from mud dying by plane it takes about 2 and 1/2 hours from tokyo and about 2 hours from osaka next the latest information about shinkansen this is the present route map of shinkansen all over japan new extended route between kanazawa and turuga will start service on this coming march 16 2024 eventually the line will be extended to kyoto and shin osaka in near future it’s going to be very convenient to tra island japan this is an enlarged map of the new route let’s mention about places to visit around there sabai city produces more than 90% of all eyeglasses distributed in japan very high quality there is megan museum that tells you about history of eyeglasses making in sabai you can participate in a workshop to make your own glasses of course you can buy your glasses at the store in this video i talked about the primitive crocodile fossil from 120 million years ago that was found in kasama prefecture is very famous for dinosaur fossils and there is prefacture of dinosaur museum in kasyama near the museum there is a place called field station where visitors can learn about excavation of dinosaur fossils through hands-on experience sounds fun at west exit of ukui station there are dinosaur statues they move and roar finally here is a list of the museums of dinosaur in japan that’s all thank you for watching see you next time
【Table of contents】
00:00 Introduction
00:43 Different sea level and different shape of Japan
01:11 Dinosaur in Japan
01:37 Huge mammals in Japan
03:06 Hunting in ancient times
03:37 Surprising discovery
04:55 Crocodile in Amami Oshima
05:36 Japan was wildlife safari!
05:51 What we need to derive fact in ancient times
06:45 Japan Travel Tips Amami Oshima
07:57 Japan Travel Tips The latest news about new Shinkansen route
08:25 Japan Travel Tips – Sabae
08:54 Japan Travel Tips – Fukui Station and List of Dinosaur museum in Japan
09:31 List of the Dinosaur museums, Special Thanks, Thanks and Closing
【Source of reference】*All in Japanese
●Books●
○History of Japan
藤岡信勝, 他.『検定不合格 新しい歴史教科書』. 自由社. 2020年
他
●Web site●
大阪大学総合学術博物館
国立研究開発法人海洋研究開発機構
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/j/
野尻湖ナウマンゾウ博物館
福井県立恐竜博物館
https://www.dinosaur.pref.fukui.jp
他
【Source of pictures and music】
Amami City Museum
Amami Nature Guide
Aso City
ColBase
Fukui Prefecture & Fukui Prefectural Tourism Federation
Iwajuku Museum
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
Kagoshima Prefecture and Kagoshima Prefectural Visitors Bureau
Kumamoto Prefecture・Kumamoto Prefectural Tourism Federation
Nojiriko Naumann Elephant Museum
Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum
ON SHORE
Setouchi Town Library And Museum
The Museum of Osaka University
Audiostock
illust AC
photo AC
photo library
学習プリント.com
Audiostock
【Note】
・Movies of the lecture is based on reference of books and movies about history of Japan.
If I find out new information, I’ll share those to you. If I find out correction about the contents, I’ll revise it.
・I sometimes state my point of view in the movies.
・I do content planning, photo taking, video shooting, recording, editing by myself to produce the movie.
Although I’m an amateur creator of the movie, I try to improve my skill to produce better quality contents.
・About the name of persons. In Japan, the family name comes first and the given name comes after. But in this video, for convenience, the given name comes first and the family name comes after, in accordance with the viewers in many Western countries.
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