Ōdachi_Caves
Ōdachi Caves
Jōmon period archaeological site in Takahata, Tōhoku, Japan
The Ōdachi Cave (大立洞窟, Ōdachi dōkutsu) is an archaeological site with a cave dwelling in use in the early Jōmon period (8000 to 2500 BC), located in what is now part of the town of Takahata, Yamagata in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1980.[1]