12,800-year-old chestnuts from Nagano are oldest in Japan
By MASAHIRO HABA/ Staff Writer
December 26, 2017 at 16:10 JST
AGEMATSU, Nagano Prefecture--Old chestnuts have probably never rustled up so much interest in Japan as ones recently found in ancient ruins here.
Two nuts, the oldest found in Japan, were used for unspecified purposes in the Jomon period's early years (16,000 to 11,000 years ago), researchers said.
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