Sannai-Maruyama

Sannai-Maruyama is a Jomon period (14,000 - 300 BC) archaeological site located nearby Aomori City in north of Japan. Found quite recently, in 1992, when the prefecture of Aomori started to survey the area for a new baseball stadium, the Sannai-Maruyama quickly became a wealth of information for Japanese archeologists. Excavations have led to the discovery of storage pits, above ground storage and longhouses as well as many graves. These findings demonstrate a change in the structure of the community, architecture, and organizational behaviors of these people.