opened on the shore of
Lake Nojiri
is in the town of Shinano, Nagano, Shinano, Kamiminochi District, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. Second to Lake Suwa among lakes in Nagano Prefecture, Nojiri is a resort, the location of the first pumped-storage hydroelectricity in Japan, and the site ...
in
Shinano,
Nagano Prefecture, Japan, in 1984. Initially the , it was renamed the Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum in 1996. The collection focuses on finds from the excavations at Lake Nojiri that began in 1962 and continue today, most notably fossils of
Naumann's elephant
''Palaeoloxodon naumanni'', occasionally called Naumann's elephant, is an extinct species belonging to the genus '' Palaeoloxodon'' found in the Japanese archipelago during the Middle to Late Pleistocene around 430,000 to 24,000 years ago. It is n ...
and (''
Sinomegaceros yabei''), along with the stone and bone tools of those who hunted them some forty thousand years ago.
See also
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List of Historic Sites of Japan (Nagano)
This list is of the Historic Sites of Japan located within the Prefecture of Nagano.
National Historic Sites
As of 1 August 2020, thirty-eight Sites have been designated as being of national significance (including one * Special Historic Site ...
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Nagano Prefectural Museum of History
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Japanese Paleolithic
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Heinrich Edmund Naumann
References
External links
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Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum
Museums in Nagano Prefecture
Natural history museums in Japan
Shinano, Nagano
Museums established in 1984
1984 establishments in Japan
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