Experts bowled over by ancient urn found on bed of Lake Biwako

[Judi Lynn]

By JIN NISHIKAWA/ Staff Writer
December 27, 2017 at 17:55 JST

An underwater robot has snapped photographs of a pottery urn probably dating from the seventh or eighth century that has been left almost intact at the bottom of Lake Biwako.

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The urn was found in an underwater archaeological site called the Tsuzuraozaki Kotei Iseki.

Since 1924, many pottery pieces, mainly from between the Jomon Pottery Culture Period (c. 8000 B.C.-300 B.C.) and Heian Period (794-1185), have been found at the site at a depth between 10 and 70 meters, often caught in fishing nets.

It remains a mystery why so much pottery from such a wide time span have been found at this site.

More:
http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201712270033.html



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[Binkie The Clown]

1. It's obvious why there are so many in one spot.

An alien spacecraft carrying exo-archeologists crashed at the site and all the samples they had collected were scattered around.

The simplest solution; you know, Occam's aftershave.

[Corvo Bianco]

5. Duh.

Thank you for paying attention

[McCamy Taylor]

2. Was probably above water at some point.

[burrowowl]

3. K&R

[eggplant]

4. It's a pottery Lagrange point. n/t

[Corvo Bianco]

6. A romantic pottery dump through the ages. I love it.

[Lucinda]

7. Thankie!

[LudwigPastorius]

8. A Jomon urn?

What's a Jomon urn?


...oh, about a chicken-and-a-half for a full day's work.