Kitadai Site

Kitadai Site
北代遺跡
Location in Japan
Kitadai Site
Location in Japan
Kitadai Site (Japan)
Location Toyama, Toyama, Japan
Region Hokuriku region
Coordinates 36°43′03″N 137°11′10″E / 36.71750°N 137.18611°E / 36.71750; 137.18611
Type settlement
History
Periods middle Jōmon
Site notes
Ownership National Historic Site
Public access Yes

Kitadai Site (北代遺跡, Kitadai Iseki) is an archaeological site with the ruins of a middle Jōmon period (around 2500 BC) settlement in what is now part of the city of Toyama in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1986.[1]

Overview

The Kitadai site is located approximately 3 kilometers northwest of Toyama Station and Toyama Castle. The settlement measured approximately 200 meters from north-south and 280 meters from east-west, and the foundations of four elevated buildings (possibly storehouses or ceremonial buildings) and more than 70 pit dwellings were discovered, making it one of the largest Jōmon settlements thus discovered in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The site is now an archaeological park and four pit dwellings and one elevated building have been reconstructed, along with a small museum.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "北代遺跡" [Kitadai Site] (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs.
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