Stone circle tomb - Kanjoressekibo

Japanese: 環状列石墓 - かんじょうれっせきぼ
Stone circle tomb - Kanjoressekibo

...In contrast, burial sites may be located in areas separate from residential settlements. In some cases, graves are lined or piled on top of the pits after they are filled, but in Hokkaido, Tohoku, and central Japan, there are known to be circular earthen mounds (30-75m in diameter, 0.5-5.4m in height) that surround the pits, and stone circles (stone circles) made of standing stones and several tens of meters in diameter. The bodies were also placed in rectangular coffins made of piled river stones (later and late periods in eastern Japan) or wooden coffins (late periods in Tohoku).

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "stone circle tombs" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…これに対し住居集落とは別の地域を墓域とすることもある。墓壙を埋めたのち,頂部に礫を並べたり,あるいは積んだりする例があるが,墓壙群を円形の土堤(径30~75m,現状の高さ0.5~5.4m)でかこんだ周堤墓(環状土籬(かんじようどり))や立石を用いた径数十mに及ぶ環状列石墓(ストーン・サークル)などが北海道,東北から中部日本にかけて知られる。遺体を河原石を用いて長方形に積み囲んだ棺(東日本の後・晩期)や,木棺(東北の晩期)に納めることも行われていた。…

※「環状列石墓」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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