EA-SANNAI-MARUYAMA-9530 - archaeological find

Sannai-Maruyama official stone pendant 9530

Aomori, Japan; Sannai-Maruyama official object 9530 - East Asia

Function not recorded Candidate only

Object no. 9530 in the Sannai-Maruyama site catalogue is a flat greenstone pendant of the Early Jōmon phase, 7.8 centimetres long, ground smooth and pierced once near its rounded top. It comes from Japan's most celebrated Jōmon settlement — the great Aomori village of monumental posts and a millennium of continuous occupation — and it is catalogued exactly as what it appears to be: a stone pendant. In profile it is a thin, elongated, end-hung blade — the silhouette that reads as a bullroarer wherever an ethnographer rather than an ornament specialist happens to describe it. It survives exactly as it must once have hung: labelled a pendant, photographed, and never asked to make a sound.

Object

石製垂飾品; 有孔石製品; stone pendant; official Sanmaru Search object. Specimens/count: one official object ID 9530. Material: stone material not specified in Sanmaru Search; green stone by image. Dimensions: length 7.8 cm; width and thickness not exposed in the official object record. Perforation: single round near-terminal perforation through the broad/flat top; bore wear not described. Context: official Sanmaru Search object; report `三内丸山遺跡35`, figure `三丸35‐241図‐6`; exact find unit/context still needs report extraction. Date: Early Jōmon (前期), ~7000–5470 cal BP; the site's occupation spans ~5900–4200 cal BP.

Function

Catalogued as an Early Jōmon stone pendant (石製垂飾品) in the official Sannai-Maruyama database; no functional or wear analysis is published, and the atlas queries the thin end-hung blade form.

Map confidence

low_medium - Approximate locality or municipality/site-cluster anchor from the local dossier; refine before public release.

Source location

Sanmaru Search object 9530; report route Sanmaru 35 Fig. 241-6

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