Tama New Town Ruins - Tama New Town Ruins

Japanese: 多摩ニュータウン遺跡群 - たまニュータウンいせきぐん

A collective term for a group of ruins located within the Tama New Town project site in western Tokyo. The planned area is on the right bank of the Tama River, and in the northwest of the Tama Hills, spanning the four cities of Tama, Hachioji, Inagi, and Machida, covering a vast area of approximately 14 km east to west and 2 to 4 km north to south, covering an area of approximately 3,000 ha. Since 1965, distribution surveys and excavation surveys have been continuously carried out, and approximately 850 ruins from the Pre-Pottery period to the Jomon, Yayoi, Kofun, and Historical periods have been identified, and the actual nature of the ruins is gradually becoming clear. Looking at these, while documents for the Pre-Pottery period are fragmentary and details are unknown, it is recognized that there were several turning points in the movement of the ruins from the Jomon period onwards, such as an increase and decrease in the number of ruins.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

東京西部の多摩ニュータウン事業用地内にある遺跡群の総称。計画区域は多摩川右岸，多摩丘陵北西部の多摩，八王子，稲城，町田の4市にまたがり，東西約14km，南北2～4km，面積約3000haの広大な地域を占める。1965年以来，分布調査，発掘調査が継続的に実施され，先土器時代から縄文，弥生，古墳，歴史時代の遺跡約850ヵ所が確認され，遺跡群の実体が明らかになりつつある。それらを概観すると，先土器時代については資料が断片的で詳細は不明であるが，縄文時代以降になると遺跡数の増減などから遺跡群の動きにいくつかの画期のあったことが認められている。

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