Jar coffin cemetery - Kamekanbochi

Japanese: 甕棺墓地 - かめかんぼち
Jar coffin cemetery - Kamekanbochi

…In this case, too, human bones believed to have been from a secondary burial were placed inside the pottery, but each pottery piece was too small to contain a single human bone, and it is thought that the bones may have been divided into several pots. The Yayoi period jar coffins of northern Kyushu, representative of Japanese jar coffins, are found in clusters of several dozen to 200 or 300 near settlements, forming jar coffin cemeteries. The majority of them do not have any special items attached to the deceased, i.e. grave goods. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "jar cemeteries" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…この場合も,土器のなかに二次葬によるとみられる人骨が納められているが,1個1個の土器は1体分の人骨を収納するには小さすぎ,むしろ,いくつもの土器に分けいれた可能性が考えられている。日本の甕棺を代表する弥生時代北部九州のそれは,集落付近に数十~200あるいは300と群在し,甕棺墓地を形成している。その大多数は,死者に特に添えたもの,すなわち副葬品をもっていない。…

※「甕棺墓地」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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