The Sannai-Maruyama Historical Site

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The Sannai-Maruyama historical site is located at Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The site was discovered while surveying the land for the creation of a baseball stadium. The oldest settlements recorded at this site was dated to be around 3900 BCE. The people who inhabited this site were the Jomon people who were hunter-gatherers who gathered natural resources such as nuts, fish, and plants (1). The settlement of this site lasted from the Early to the Middle Jomon period (3900 BCE to 2300 BCE) (3). Sannai-Maruyama contained many artifacts and large structures showing a long-term settlement and an advanced community. Some of the remains include large pit-dwellings, burial pits, burial jars, large pillar-supported buildings, storage

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