A study on the structure of social group of the first half of the Kofun age in Kinki region by analyzing tumuli and human skeletons

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Based on the following procedure, I made clear that the social system of the half part of the Kofun age was the chiefdom society which was yet based on a kinship system, and got a conclusion that it reaches in the sixth century that chiefs projects from kin groups.Analyzing large tumulus groups such as Mozu tumulus group in Osaka Pref, I reached a conclusion that the conventional hypothesis which assumed that a subordinate burial mound was a grave of liegemen or bureaucrats was denied.By kinship analysis of human skeletal remains from many tumuli, I made clear that tumuli of the first half of the Kofun age was not a personal grave, and was a grave of kin group which was a big group than a family with a background. And I concluded that tumuli groups are the clan/lineage graves not the thing which reflected social classes. The superiority/inferiority in tumulus group shows rank differences in a kin group. In addition, I got a preliminary conclusion that, besides, the structure of tumuli group was basically same in Kyushu, Kinki and Kanto region.