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c. 3900 BC · Aomori, Japan · Asia · Culture

A forager village that cancelled a baseball stadium

Sannai-Maruyama
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The remains of a huge Jōmon settlement turned up in Aomori in 1992 while ground was being cleared for a baseball stadium, and the stadium was never built. Around 3900–2200 BC hundreds of people lived here, tended chestnut trees and raised a structure on six chestnut pillars about a metre thick.