Aoki ruins

Japanese: 檍遺跡 - あおきいせき

Located in Aoki, Yoshimura-cho, Miyazaki City, this is a representative cemetery site from the early Yayoi period in southern eastern Kyushu. It is located on the alluvial plain on the left bank of the Oyo-gawa River, which runs through Miyazaki City, at the southern end of the third sand dune, counting parallel to the current coastline. The site became known in 1951 and 1952 with the discovery of a child's jar coffin, and excavations by the Special Committee for Comprehensive Research on Yayoi Pottery Culture of the Japanese Archaeological Association in 1956 and Miyazaki City in 1959 recorded ten graves with square or rectangular stone paving of about 1m on top of pits, as well as three sets of jar coffins. [Tsuboi Kiyotari]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

宮崎市吉村町檍にある，東九州南部の弥生時代前期の代表的な墓地遺跡。宮崎市を貫流する大淀川の左岸沖積平野に，海岸と平行する現海岸から数えて第3砂丘の南端に立地している。遺跡は1951,52年に小児甕棺の検出により知られ，56年日本考古学協会弥生式土器文化総合研究特別委員会の発掘，59年宮崎市の発掘により，10基の土壙上に1m前後の方形ないし長方形の石敷きをもつ墓と，壺棺3組が記録されている。【坪井清足】

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