Process of reburial rites in Yayoi period of protohistoric Japan

采用陶棺的复葬仪式是日本东部弥生时期所特有的。一些考古学家根据重新埋葬地点的一些痕迹重建了这一过程。对这一主题的独特研究不仅是对这个坟墓的追寻，而且是对从安置点死亡到埋葬的全过程的重建。在这个项目中，采用了以下程序：(1)对安田镇Oomagari重新埋葬地点进行分析，(2)通过对大马加里墓地的发掘，得出山下遗址为聚落的结论。(3)应用安田县Rokunose遗址的研究资料，了解山下聚落与小马加里墓地的关系。并得出以下结论：(1)山下遗址是一个建于弥生中期的小聚落，其墓地肯定是大马加里遗址。(2)大马加里墓地出土的薄片和剪贴片将是连接山下聚落的关键文物。(3)山下聚落不再在山上继续存在。(3)山下聚落不再继续存在。长期和居住者搬到下一个区域，在Oomagari墓地再次进行了重新烧毁行为。但从现在开始，需要对剥落过程进行更详细的分析，才能更全面地重建。

The reburial rites adopted pottery coffin is peculiar in Yayoi period of eastern Japan. Some archaeologists reconstructed the process from some traces in reburial sites. The unique study to the theme is not only to pursue thse grave, but also to reconstruct a whole process from death in settlement to bury into grave.In this project the following procedure was adopted.(1) To Analyse the Oomagari reburial site in Yasuda town, Niigata prefecture and to re consta funeral process.(2) To conclude the Yamanoshita site near Oomagari cemetery to be settlement from excaveting the site.(3) Applying the research data from the Rokunose site in Yasuda towm to understand relation between the Yamanosita settlement and the Oomagari cemetery.And a conclusion of the project is as follows.(1) The Yamanosita site is a small settlement dated the middle Yayoi period and its cemetery is surely the Oomagari site.(2) The flakes and clips excavated from the Oomagari cemetery will be the key artefacts link to Yamanosita settlement.(3) The Yamanosita settlement did not continue in long term and the habitant remove to next area and performed reburil acts again in the Oomagari cemetery.But from now on a more detail analysis to flaking process is needed to reconstruct more concletely.