Nabatake Site () is an archaeological site that located in Karatsu, Saga of

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. The site was designated as a National Historic Site of Japan in 1983. It is the oldest

paddy field A paddy field is a flooded field (agriculture), field of arable land used for growing Aquatic plant, semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures of the Yangtze River basin in sout ...

site in Japan, about 2500 to 2600 years ago, that can be confirmed at present. It is acclaimed as the first

Paddy field A paddy field is a flooded field (agriculture), field of arable land used for growing Aquatic plant, semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures of the Yangtze River basin in sout ...

, important for the understanding of the evolution of wet-rice agricultural technology, and is the focus of the Matsurokan exhibition hall.

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* {{Japan-hist-stub Karatsu, Saga Historic Sites of Japan