三内丸山遺跡（Sannai-Maruyama Site) / 青森（Aomori)
三内丸山遺跡は江戸時代から知られている有名な遺跡です。平成4年から始まった発掘調査では、縄文時代前期〜中期（約5,500〜4,000年前）の大規模な集落跡が見つかりました。たくさんの竪穴建物跡や掘立柱建物跡、盛土、大人や子供の墓などのほか、多量の土器や石器、貴重な木製品、骨角製品などが出土しました。青森県は遺跡の重要性から、平成６年に遺跡の保存を決定しました。
The Sannai-Maruyama is a famous site which had been known since the Edo Period. Excavation survey which was started in 1992 revealed a large settlement of the Early and Middle Jomon Period (about 5,500 to 4,000 years ago). Many pit-dwellings, pillar-supported buildings, mounds, burial pits and jars, as well as numerous number of pottery and stone implements, wooden object, bone and antler artifacts were discovered.
Given to its significance ahead, Aomori Prefectural Government decided to preserve this site in 1994.
大型掘立柱建物跡。６本柱の長方形の建物と考えられます。柱穴は直径・深さとも約２mで他の建物跡と比べて規模が大きく、穴の間隔はすべて4.2mでした。中に直径1mのクリの柱が残っていました。
Large Pillar-Supported Building
This remain is constructed as a 6-pillared rectangular building. The six postholes whose measure were about 2 meets both in diameter and whose depth were placed at 4.2 meters apart. They are larger than of the other buildings. Tamarins of chestnut posts measuring about 1 meter in diameter were preserved in the postholes
掘立柱建物。地面に穴を掘り、柱を建てた建物あとです。遺跡中央部分でまとまって見つかりました、高床式の建物と考え、復元しました。
Pillar-Supported Buildings
These types of buildings can be identified by postholes drug below the ground. They are found clustered in the center of the site. It is reconstructed to be raised floor buidings.
竪穴建物。床は地面を彫り込んで作りました、中央には炉があります。これまでに550棟以上見つかりました。15棟を復元しています。
Pit-Dwellings
The floor was drug below the ground level. A hearth was located in its center. At least 550 pit-dwellings have been discovered so far and 15 have been reconstructed.
