Sozudai

Palaeolithic site in Oita Prefecture, Japan, where a date of 4000,000 bp was claimed based on geology and tool comparisons with Zhoukoudian. A few hundred tools, mostly of quartzite, were recovered from a secondary deposit on a marine terrace, including hand axes, scrapers, and flakes. A date of only 70,000 bp is accepted by many archaeologists.

A Palaeolithic site in Oita Prefecture on Kyushu, Japan. A few hundred tools, mostly of quartzite, were recovered from a secondary deposit on a marine terrace during excavations in 1964. They include hand axes, scrapers and flakes. The geological age of the deposit suggests that the tools could be as much as 70,000 years old.