TheUnai Obyan Latte Site is a prehistoricarchaeological site on the island ofSaipan in theNorthern Mariana Islands. Located near Obyan Beach on the south coast of the island, it is the site of what was once a fairly extensive village, which was significantly disturbed by Japanese defensive preparations duringWorld War II. The site includes the fragmentary remains of a singlelatte stone house site and a wide scattering of surface-level remains. Excavation of the latte house site in the 1940s by the pioneering archeologistAlexander Spoehr yielded evidence of a length period of occupation. The village at Obyan was documented in early Spanish accounts of the island, and was probably abandoned when the Spanish forcibly relocated the entire island population toGuam in 1698.^[2]

The site was listed on theNational Register of Historic Places in 1985.^[1]

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