2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A study on the structure of social group of the first half of the Kofun age in Kinki region by analyzing tumuli and human skeletons
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16520462
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Archaeology
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| Research Institution | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY |
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Principal Investigator |
TANAKA Yoshiyuki KYUSHU UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND CULTURAL STUDIES, PROFESSOR, 比較社会文化研究院, 教授 (50128047)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | chief / keyhole shaped burial mound / subordinate burial mound / lieaman / bureaucrat / funeral / kin group |
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| Research Abstract |
Based on the following procedure, I made clear that the social system of the half part of the Kofun age was the chiefdom society which was yet based on a kinship system, and got a conclusion that it reaches in the sixth century that chiefs projects from kin groups.
Analyzing large tumulus groups such as Mozu tumulus group in Osaka Pref, I reached a conclusion that the conventional hypothesis which assumed that a subordinate burial mound was a grave of liegemen or bureaucrats was denied.
By kinship analysis of human skeletal remains from many tumuli, I made clear that tumuli of the first half of the Kofun age was not a personal grave, and was a grave of kin group which was a big group than a family with a background. And I concluded that tumuli groups are the clan/lineage graves not the thing which reflected social classes. The superiority/inferiority in tumulus group shows rank differences in a kin group. In addition, I got a preliminary conclusion that, besides, the structure of tumuli group was basically same in Kyushu, Kinki and Kanto region.
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