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The Ōyu Stone Circles (大湯環状列石, Ōyu Kanjyō Resseki) is a late Jōmon period (approx. 2,000 – 1,500 BC) archaeological site in the city of Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The remains were designated a Special National Historic Site of Japan in 1956 by the Japanese government.
The site consists of two large stone circles located on an artificially flattened plateau on the left bank of the Oyu River, a tributary of the Yoneshiro River in northeastern Akita Prefecture. The site was discovered in 1931, with detailed archaeological excavations taking place in 1946, and in 1951–1952.
The archetypical stone circle is an uncluttered enclosure, large enough to congregate inside, and composed of megalithic stones. Often similar structures are named 'stone circle', but these names are either historic, or incorrect. Examples of commonly misinterpreted stone circles are ring cairns, burial mounds, and kerb cairns.
Discovered in the Harrat al ‘Uwayrid lava field, the circles range in diameter from 13 to 26 feet, and all date to about 7,000 years ago. The team found evidence of stone walls and at least one ...
The stone circle was donut-shaped, with a major diameter of 120 meters and a minor diameter of 90 meters, and contained an estimated 200,000 fist-sized river rocks. In the center was a stone pillar with a height of 1.34 meters, made of 24 large and small andesite stones and two flat stones paired to the northeast. In addition, there were eight ...
The Altar Stone, the largest of the bluestones used to build Stonehenge, is a thick block that weighs 13,227 pounds (6 metric tons) and lies at the center of the stone circle. “This stone has ...
Stone circles, circular alignments of standing stones. They are commonly found across Northern Europe and Great Britain, and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age eras, with most concentrations appearing from 3000 BC.
→ Stone sarcophagi went unopened for 600 years — until now. See what was found inside . Why exactly it was destroyed is not clear, though it may have been done so intentionally before it was ...