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with a diameter of approximately ten meters, and another with a diameter of six to ten meters. A slightly sunken underground hearth was installed on the floor of the pit dwelling, and there are earthen pits of unknown nature around the dwelling, and a central plaza around which the pit dwellings were
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to have been discovered, it is important as a core village site with a wealth of artifacts. Remains from the Yayoi period include two pit dwellings sites and one grave, and there are also twelve pit dwelling traces and one grave from the Kofun period, indicating continuous settlement over many
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arranged. On the southern edge of the settlement was the remains of a stone structure made up of fist-sized debris, which may be the site of a grave. Relics from the Jōmon period include
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measuring 40 meters from east-to-west and 32 meters from north-to-south, surrounded by a moat four meters wide and 1.5 meters deep. A large concentration of ancient
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pottery and small round-bottom pottery have been unearthed from the southwest corner of this moat, and are thought to have been used in funeral rituals.
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centuries. Particularly noteworthy from the early Kofun period is a rectangular trapezoid
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and Kofun period. The foundations of five Jōmon period dwellings, including one circular
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settlement located in what is now the Tomino-Moriyama neighborhood of the city of
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from the middle to late Jōmon period, as well as 170 stone arrowheads, 55
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The Moriyama site is located on a plateau overlooking the
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Jōmon period archaeological site in Jōyō, Kyoto, Japan
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Location in Japan
Location in Japan
Jōyō, Kyoto
Japan
Kinai region
34°50′36″N 135°47′27″E / 34.84333°N 135.79083°E / 34.84333; 135.79083
Jōmon
Kofun period
National Historic Site of Japan
archaeological site
Jōmon period
Kofun period
Jōyō, Kyoto
Kinai region
Japan
National Historic Site of Japan
Kizugawa River
Yayoi period
pit dwelling
earthenware
stone tools
sanukite
lithic flakes
Kinai region
burial mound
Haji ware
archaeological park
Nagaike Station
JR West

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