Sannai-Maruyama Site

The Sannai-Maruyama Site is a museum and archaeological site featuring the largest Jōmon settlement discovered in Japan, covering 40 hectares. The site was inhabited by hunter-gatherers from the Early Jōmon period to the Middle Jōmon period (3900-2200 BC) and evolved from a seasonal camp to a mobile society and finally a settled village. Its most notable structure, a reconstruction of a large six-pillared building built around 2600 BC, has parallels in other sites in Japan and Eurasia, including a wooden predecessor to Stonehenge. The site was known was the Edo period and was inscribed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List on July 27, 2021.

Featuring:

• Reconstructed large six-pillared building

• Pieces of pottery

• Burial pits and mounds

• Reconstructed large and small pit-dwellings

• Reconstructed pillar-supported buildings