Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum Explained

Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum
Native Name:	野尻湖ナウマンゾウ博物館
Address:	287-5 Nojiri
Location Town:	Shinano, Nagano Prefecture
Location Country:	Japan
Coordinates:	36.8323°N 138.2062°W
Opened Date:	1 July 1984

opened on the shore of Lake Nojiri 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 and the extinct giant deer Sinomegaceros yabei, along with the stone and bone tools of those who hunted them some forty thousand years ago.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

See also

• List of Historic Sites of Japan (Nagano)
• Nagano Prefectural Museum of History
• Japanese Paleolithic
• Heinrich Edmund Naumann

External links

• Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum

Notes and References

1. Web site: http://bunka.nii.ac.jp/museums/detail/355 . ja:野尻湖ナウマンゾウ博物館 . Lake Nojiri Naumann Elephant Museum . Japanese . . 27 September 2017.
2. Web site: Museum . Japanese . . 1 July 2014 . 27 September 2017.
3. Web site: Nojiri-ko Museum . . 27 September 2017.
4. Book: The Oxford Handbook of Wetland Archaeology . Menotti, Francesco . O'Sullivan, Aidan . . 2013 . 176 ff . 978-0199573493.