Cliff burial tomb

…They were residential areas in the early and early Jomon periods, but from the early period onwards, they were used as temporary hunting shelters or graveyards. There are also some unique sites, such as Yayoi period tombs in eastern Japan, such as the Iwabitsuyama site in Gunma Prefecture, ritual sites from the Kofun period and Nara period, such as the Okishima site in Fukuoka Prefecture, Buddhist sites from the Middle Ages, and cliff burial tombs (reburial tombs) from the historical period found in the Nansei Islands. [Kobayashi Tatsuo]…

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "cliff burial tombs" is listed below.

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…縄文時代草創期や早期に居住地とされているが，前期以降では狩猟のための一時的な仮泊地あるいは墓地などの利用例がある。さらに群馬県岩櫃山遺跡などの東日本における弥生時代の墳墓，福岡県沖島遺跡などの古墳時代や奈良時代の祭祀関係遺跡，中世の仏教関係遺跡，南西諸島にみられる歴史時代の崖葬墓(再葬墓)などの特殊なものもある。【小林 達雄】。…

※「崖葬墓」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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