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Genealogy in the ground: observations of jar burials of the Yayoi period, northern Kyushu, Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Koji Mizoguchi
Koji Mizoguchi*
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University, Japan (Email: mizog@rc.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
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Abstract

The author finds that cemeteries in early first millennium Japan reflect the associations of family with land. The burial parties of a core settlement could be seen to be referring to earlier burials in a dynastic or genealogical sequence, while a secondary settlement developed its burial ground in a disordered sequence. Thus Koji Mizoguchi shows that the differences between the haves and have-nots extended their having, or not having, a history.

Keywords

Middle Yayoi periodJapanmortuary practice
Type
Research
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Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 304 , June 2005 , pp. 316 - 326
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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