一吉林省境内的考古活动始于20世纪初,先后有鸟居龙藏、关野贞、内藤虎次郎等在集安和延边进行考古调查。日本侵占东北后,又有多批次的日本学术团体或个人频繁往来于吉林省,他们多以考察历史时期遗迹、侦寻遗物为目的,也兼有史前遗迹。如20世纪30年代,日本人三上次男对吉林市郊团山子、骚达沟遗址的调查;藤田亮策在图们江上游的调查和对延吉小营子墓地的发掘。这一时期中国学者李文信调查了吉林市郊的史 An archeological activity in Jilin Province started in the early 20th century. There were successively Archaeological Surveys in Tuan’an and Yanbian. After Japan invaded the northeast, there were many batches of Japanese academic groups or individuals frequenting in Jilin Province. Most of them used the historical relics and the relics for historical relics as well as prehistoric relics. For example, in the 1930s, the Japanese surveyed the last three men in the suburbs of Tuan Shan Zi and Sao Da Gou, the suburb of Jilin; the investigation of Fujita Brigade in the upper reaches of the Tumen River and the excavations of Xiaoy Yingzi cemetery in Yanji. During this period, Chinese scholar Li Wenxin investigated the history of the outskirts of Jilin