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Reconstruction of Japanese Kofun (Mounded Tombs) Using Radar and Resistivity Prospection

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13480030
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Cultural property science
Research InstitutionTenri University

Principal Investigator

OKITA Masaaki  Tenri University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History and Culture Studies, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (50248176)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) EDWARDS Walter  Tenri University, Faculty of International Culture Studies, Department of Asian Studies, Professor, 国際文化学部, 教授 (70258185)
SAITO Jun  Tenri University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History and Culture Studies, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (00319922)
KUWABARA Hisao  Tenri University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History and Culture Studies, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (00234633)
YASUI Manami  Tenri University, Faculty of Letters, Department of History and Culture Studies, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (40309513)
NISHIMURA Yasushi  Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre for UNESCO, Cultural Heritage Protection Cooperation Office, Director, Programme Operation Department, アジア文化センター文化遺産保護協力事務所, 研修事業部長 (80000488)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2004
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2004)
Budget Amount *help
¥10,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥2,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,500,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥3,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
KeywordsArchaeological prospection / Ground-penetrating radar / Resistivity prospection / Hiraishi tomb group / Tamateyama tomb group / No tomb group / Imashirozuka mound / Kabutozuka mound / 電気探査 / レーダ探査 / 男狭穂塚古墳 / 考古学 / 民俗学 / 古墳 / アカハゲ古墳 / 埋没古墳 / シシヨツカ古墳 / 茶ノ木古墳 / 文化財探査 / 波多子塚古墳 / 赤土山古墳 / 西山古墳
Research Abstract

The primary goal of this research is to prepare basic data for the study of kofun (mounded tombs) by utilizing radar and resistivity prospection to clarify the shapes and scales of these tombs, the presence or absence of tsukuridashi projections, the positions of the primary burial facilities, the state of preservation of paving stones on the slopes, etc. An additional aim is make investigative surveys, together with researchers in history and folklore, on the origins of local names for the tombs and on legends concerning them, and add these results to the basic data.
Prospection was conducted at the Shishiyotsuka, Akahage, and Tsukamari tombs, and in the Shimako district of *he Hiraishi tomb group in the town of Kanan, Osaka prefecture. All three tombs are square mounds dating from the **d of the Kofun period, which have been excavated by the prefectural Board of Education, and the results can be compared with the prospection data, enabling us to demonstrate the utility of prospection. … More Also, radar prospection was conducted in conjunction with topographic surveys of the mounds at the Chanokizuka and Ogawazuka tombs in the city of Sakurai, Nara prefecture, to determine the mounds' shapes. We inferred Chanokizuka to be a round mound 28 m in diameter, surrounded by a moat 6-7 m in width, and Ogawazuka to be a square mound of the Kofun period, or an older square-shaped moated burial precinct, 40 m long on one side and with a moat 10 m wide, thought to be breached at one point by a land bridge. No excavations have been conducted at these mounds, and these inferences are based primarily on prospection. In addition, we were able to discover buried or leveled mounds in the No tomb group, a National Historic Site in the town of Ono, Gifu prefecture, and also conducted prospection on main burial features of tombs in that group.
At the same time, prospection was conducted to determine the position of the main burial features at the Number 3 and Number 7 mounds of the Tamateyama tomb group in the city of Kashihara, at the Imashirozuka mound in the city of Takatsuki, Osaka prefecture, and at the Kabutozuka mound in Fukui prefecture, but we had no success in locating any burial facilities. A common characteristic of these four mounds is the mound being constructed with firm clay, making it difficult even for rain water to penetrate. We assume this resulted in attenuation of the radar signal at the ground surface.
A report on the tombs in the city of Sakurai is currently in press, and accordingly has not be added to the attached list of published reports
(YASUI Manami served as Investigator in 2001-2003, but was on leave in 2004 and not included in the research.) Less

Report

(5 results)
  • 2004 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (27 results)

All 2005 2004 2002 Other

All Journal Article (16 results) Publications (11 results)

  • [Journal Article] アカハゲ古墳の物理探査2005

    • Author(s)
      置田雅昭
    • Journal Title

      加納古墳群・平石古墳群発掘調査概要 IV

      Pages: 85-91

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Akahage kofun no butsuri tansa (Geophysical prospection of the Akahage mounded tomb).2005

    • Author(s)
      OKITA Masaaki.
    • Journal Title

      Kano kofungun, Hiraishi kofungun hakkutsu chosa gaiyo (Summaries of archaeological in the Kano and Hiraishi tomb groups) V.4

      Pages: 85-91

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 終末期古墳の探査-大阪府河南町アカハゲ古墳-2004

    • Author(s)
      置田雅昭, 枡本 哲, 吉永史彦
    • Journal Title

      日本文化財探査学会第7回大会発表要旨集

      Pages: 14-15

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Reconstruction of Japanese Kofun (Mounded Tombs) Using Radar and Resistivity Prospection2004

    • Author(s)
      Walter Edwards, Okita Masaaki
    • Journal Title

      Third International Congress, Society for East Asian Archaeology

      Pages: 114-114

    • NAID

      40006898986

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Shumatsuki kofun no tansa : Osaka-fu Kanan-cho, Akahage kofun (Archaeological prospection of a mounded tomb dating from the end of the Kofun period : Akahage tomb in the town of Kanan, Osaka prefecture).2004

    • Author(s)
      OKITA Masaaki, MASUMOTO Tetsu, YOSHINAGA Fumihiko.
    • Journal Title

      Abstracts, 7th Annual Meeting, Archaeological Prospection Society of Japan

      Pages: 14-15

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Reeda, denki tansaho ni yoru kofun fukugen no chosa kenkyu (Investigative research toward the reconstruction of mounded tombs using GPR and resistivity prospection.)2004

    • Author(s)
      OKITA Masaaki, Walter EDWARDS, KUWABARA Hisao, YOSHINAGA Fumihiko, MUTO Tamefumi.
    • Journal Title

      Abstracts, 70th Annual Meeting, Japanese Archaeological Association

      Pages: 110-113

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Reconstruction of Japanese Kofun (Mounded Tombs) Using Radar and Resistivity Prospection.2004

    • Author(s)
      Walter EDWARDS, OKITA Masaaki.
    • Journal Title

      Abstracts, Third International Congress, Society for East Asian Archaeology

      Pages: 114-114

    • NAID

      40006898986

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 終末期古墳の探査-大阪府河南町アカハゲ古墳-2004

    • Author(s)
      置田雅昭, 枡本 哲, 吉永史彦
    • Journal Title

      日本文化財探査学会第7回大会研究発表要旨集

      Pages: 14-15

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] レーダ・電気探査法による古墳復元の調査研究2004

    • Author(s)
      置田雅昭, W.エドワーズ, 桑原久男, 吉永史彦, 武藤為文
    • Journal Title

      有限責任中間法人 日本考古学協会第70回総会研究発表要旨集

      Pages: 110-113

    • NAID

      40006898986

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Japanese Kohun(Mound of Tombs) Using Rader and Resistivity Prospection2004

    • Author(s)
      Walter Edwards, OKita masaaki
    • Journal Title

      Third International Congress Society for East Asian Archaeoiogy

      Pages: 114-114

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 地場で見た西都原地下式横穴墓2004

    • Author(s)
      丸川雄三, 亀井宏行, 置田雅昭, 工藤博司
    • Journal Title

      日本文化財探査学会第7回大会研究発表要旨集

      Pages: 34-35

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 古墳主体部(埋葬施設)の探査2002

    • Author(s)
      置田雅昭, 西村 康
    • Journal Title

      日本文化財探査学会第5回大会発表要旨集

      Pages: 28-29

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 3-D GPR Amplitude Rendering of Saitobaru Burial Mound #132002

    • Author(s)
      Dean Goodman, Yasushi Nishimura, Masaki Okita, H. Hongo
    • Journal Title

      Filitiring, Optimisation and Modelling of Geophysical Data in Archaeological Prospection

      Pages: 93-101

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Kofun shutaibu (maiso shisetsu) no tansa (Archaeological prospection of the main burial facilities of mounded tombs).2002

    • Author(s)
      OKITA Masaaki, NISHIMURA Yasushi.
    • Journal Title

      Abstracts, 5th Annual Meeting, Archaeological Prospection Society of Japan

      Pages: 28-29

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 3-D GPR Amplitude Rendering of Saitobaru Burial Mound #13.2002

    • Author(s)
      D.GOODMAN, Y.NISHIMURA, M.OKITA, H.Hongo.
    • Journal Title

      Filtering, Optimization and Modelling of Geophysical Data in Archaeological Prospecting (M.Cucarzi, P.Conti (eds.))(Rome : Fondazione Ing.Carlo Maurilio Lerici)

      Pages: 93-101

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] レーダ・電気探査法による古墳復元の調査研究

    • Author(s)
      置田雅昭, W.エドワーズ, 桑原久男, 吉永史彦, 武藤為文
    • Journal Title

      有限責任中間報告 日本考古学協会第70回総会研究発表要旨集

    • NAID

      40006898986

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2004 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 置田雅昭, 亀井宏行, 阿児雄之, 西村康, 嬉野町教育委員会ほか: "三重県嬉野町天白遺跡の探査"日本文化財探査学会第6回大会研究発表要旨集. 22-25 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 西村康, 西口和彦, 下田順一, 小林勝美, 岡山真知子: "渋野丸山古墳の墳丘復元"日本文化財探査学会第6回大会研究発表要旨集. 10-14 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 四谷優介, 阿児雅之, 亀井宏行, 置田雅昭ほか: "地中レーダ探査への3次元F-Kマイグレーションの適用-三重県嬉野町天白遺跡を例に-"日本文化財探査学会第6回大会研究発表要旨集. 26-27 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] T.Ako, H.Kamei, Y.Kotuya, M.okita: "Application of 3D-migretion to GPR survey at the Tenpaku-site, Mie, Japan"Archaeologia Polona. 41. 113-114 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Yasushi Nishimura: "GPR survey for detecting post-hole houses : two examples of surveys for the identification of low-cntrast soil stuructures"Archaeologia Polona. 41. 241-242 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 置田雅昭, 西村康: "古墳主体部(埋葬施設)の探査"日本文化財探査学会第5回大会研究発表要旨集. 28-29 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 桑原久男, 置田雅昭, 西村康, 七田忠昭, 岸田徹: "佐賀県吉野ヶ里遺跡(吉野ケ里丘陵地区IX)における甕棺墓群の地中レーダ探査"日本文化財探査学会第5回大会研究発表要旨集. 26-27 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 西村康, 高橋克壽, 福田哲也, 松林和也: "宝塚古墳の物理探査-三重県松阪市所在-"日本文化財探査学会第5回大会研究発表要旨集. 30-31 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Yasushi Nishimura: "Recent Research Results in Archaeological Prospection"International Congress on Archaeological Sience. 41-45 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 置田雅昭, 西村康ほか: "墳丘のない墓の探査研究"日本文化財探査学会第4回大会研究発表要旨集. 2-3 (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 置田雅昭, Walter Edwardsほか: "墳丘のない墓の探査研究"天理大学出版会. 310 (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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