Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center
building in Hokkaidō, Japan
Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center (北海道立埋蔵文化財センター, Hokkaidō-ritsu Maizō Bunkazai Sentaa) opened in Ebetsu, Hokkaidō, Japan in 1999. Its aim is to protect, preserve, and utilize buried cultural properties.
History
In December 2017, researchers from the Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center announced the discovery of the oldest ancient stone with a human face painted on it (12x13cm), estimating its creation date between 2,500 and 1,000 B.C.
Description
The exhibition hall features two Important Cultural Properties: an earthen Jōmon mask from the Mamachi Site and artefacts excavated from the Bibi 8 Site.
“Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center” enters the record as building in Hokkaidō, Japan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hokkaido, Archaeological and Operations can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11402962. VIAF identifies the subject as 264385820. The Library of Congress control number is no2009041680. Authority coordinates are 43.060, 141.494. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999 and 2017.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hokkaido Archaeological Operations Center” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.