Futatsumori Site

Shichinohe, Japan

The Futatsumori Site, known primarily in Japanese as the Futatsumori Shell Mound (Futatsumori Kaizuka), is an archaeological site consisting of a series of large shell middens and the remains of an adjacent settlement from the Jōmon period, located in what is now part of the town of Shichinohe in Aomori Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1998. The site covers an area of about 30 hectares.

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