Sipingshan Ruins (English: Sipingshan Ruins)

Japanese: 四平山遺跡 - しへいざんいせき（英語表記）Sì píng shān yí jī

A group of late Neolithic tombs in Yingchengzi, Dalian, Liaoning Province, China. Excavated in 1941 by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Also known as the Sipingshan Stone Tomb, they are a group of piled stone mounds distributed on the ridgeline between the two northern and southern peaks of Sipingshan (192m), which faces the Bohai Sea on the Huanglongwei Peninsula at the tip of the Liaodong Peninsula. Twenty-two of these stone mounds were investigated. Tomb No. 35 is 18.25m long and is made of the same type of broken stones piled up in two to seven layers in a square stone wall shape on top of the limestone bedrock, with the interior divided into four sections and containing pit-type stone chambers. Tomb No. 36 is 120m long and is divided into 24 sections, with pit-type stone chambers as the main interior.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

中国遼寧省大連市営城子にある新石器時代晩期の墳墓群。1941年に日本学術振興会によって発掘された。遼東半島の先端の黄竜尾半島の渤海に面する四平山(192m)の南北2峰の稜線上に分布する積石塚群で四平山石塚ともよばれる。その中の22基の石塚が調査された。35号墓は全長18.25mで，石灰岩の岩盤の上に，同質の割石を石垣状に2～7段に方形に積み上げ，その内部は4区に分かれて竪穴式石室をもっている。36号墓は全長120mで，内部は24区に分かれ竪穴式石室を内部主体としている。

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