Okyōzuka Site

The Okyōzuka Site (御経塚遺跡, Okyōzuka iseki) is an archaeological site with the ruins of a middle to final Jōmon period (around 1700–500 BC) settlement in the Kyōzuka neighborhood of the city of Nonoichi, Ishikawa in the Hokuriku region of Japan.

The ruins straddle the eastern side of Japan National Route 8, and cover an area of about 35,000 square meters.

[2] The site was noted for the huge number of artifacts discovered: 542 Jōmon pottery or earthenware objects, 3642 stone tools or fragments, 23 bone tools, ritual clay figurines and other objects, of which a total of 4219 items were collectively designated as National Important Cultural Properties on June 29, 2010.

Many of the clay figurines excavated at this site are important because they can likewise be periodized according to their form and pattern.

[2] The south side of the ruins is maintained as an archaeological park, and the west half of the site used as a place to enjoy simple sports, with the east side divided into a restored pit dwellings and a learning area centered on vegetation of virgin forest and the Nonoichi City Furusato History Museum (野々市市ふるさと歴史館, Nonoichishi Furusato rikishi-kan) which displays a number of artifacts from the site.