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Submitted by Aska on Friday, 26 November 2021  Page Views: 7436

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Komakino Alternative Name: 小牧野
Country: Japan
NOTE: This site is 9.859 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Honshū Type: Stone Circle
Nearest Town: Aomori (Aomori pref.)  Nearest Village: Nozawa 野沢
Latitude: 40.737590N  Longitude: 140.727840E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
4 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Enki visited on 1st Jul 2015 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 4 A well-restored Jomon site with easy footpath access from the small visitor centre. The road up the hill to the site is another story however! A slice has been left unexcavated to allow access to the centre of the circle, which is otherwise forbidden. There is a viewing platform to the west of the circle providing a good overview of the circle. The outer rim of the circle exhibits the best example of the characteristic Jomon layering construction that has become known as 'Komakino style' after this site. Surrounding trees prevent observing of any astronomical alignments, although the circle does indicate an alignment to the summer solstice sunrise. The ambience is overall very peaceful, especially in the trees on the east side where the cist burial mounds are located.

Komakino
Komakino submitted by Aska : Site in Honshu (Vote or comment on this photo)
Triple concentric circles and outer stone settings found in 1989 not far from Aomori Airport.

Note: Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan added to UNESCO World Heritage list, more in the comments on our page
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Komakino submitted by Enki : Komakino circle showing the aligned carved stones. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Komakino
Komakino submitted by Aska : Site in Honshu (Vote or comment on this photo)

Komakino
Komakino submitted by Aska : Site in Honshu Japan (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Jōmon Prehistoric Sites in Northern Japan added to UNESCO World Heritage list by Andy B on Friday, 26 November 2021
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Aska writes: Earlier this year the UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee decided to add the Jōmon Prehistoric sites (including stone circles and henge monuments) in Tōhoku and Hokkaidō regions to the World Heritage list.

The listing consists of 17 archaeological sites in the southern part of Hokkaidō Island and northern Tōhoku in geographical settings ranging from mountains and hills to plains and lowlands, from inland bays to lakes, and rivers. They bear a unique testimony to the development over some 10,000 years of the pre-agricultural yet sedentary Jōmon culture and its complex spiritual belief system and rituals. It attests to the emergence, development, maturity and adaptability to environmental changes of a sedentary hunter-fisher-gatherer society which developed from about 13,000 BCE.

Expressions of Jōmon spirituality were given tangible form in objects such as lacquered pots, clay tablets with the impression of feet, the famous goggle eyed dogū figurines, as well as in ritual places including earthworks and large stone circles reaching diameters of more than 50 metres. The serial property testifies to the rare and very early development of pre-agricultural sedentism from emergence to maturity.

Most of the registered 17 (+2 related) sites have been posted to the Megalithic Portal.

  • Kiusu henges
  • Sannai Maruyama site
  • Komakino stone circle
  • Ōmori Katsuyama stone circle
  • Kamegaoka site
  • Goshono site
  • Ōyu stone circles
  • Ise Dōtai stone circles
  • Washi-no-ki stone circle


  • The Sannai Maruyama site and the image of the goggle eyed clay figurine excavated from Kamegaoka site are well-known to most Japanese people but other sites are obscure and the spanning area of the sites are too much vast for a single entry in the list.

    And it is much more strange that most of the stone circles in Hokkaidō, which have been excavated by the archaeologists of ex-Imperial Japan who had been expelled from Manchuria and the Korean peninsula and then contributed to the development of archaeology in Japan after the WW2, are almost ignored from the entry. Someone not 'in the know' might misunderstand that Jōmon is a regional culture peculiar to Tōhoku and southern Hokkaidō area across the Tsugaru strait.
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