History of mankind that has been confirmed in Japan I go back up to about 10 million years ago.
The Japanese Islands more than 10,000 years ago became not separated by water with the Asian Continent.
A knife-shaped stone implement was used widely in whole chain of islands.
But this knife type stone has not been excavated in Hokkaido.
It is indicated that there was some kind of faith in the Old Stone Age because thing 4,000 years before approximately 20,000 and seen kokeshi doll-shaped Gangu were excavated from Iwato remains.
Time about 12,000 years ago,When a glacial epoch was over, and a rise in sea level by the sudden warming began, the Japanese Islands separated from the Asian Continent,
In this way, it changed big into the culture and life of people
