A study of the transition process from the Yayoi to the Kofun period as seen from settlement, cemetery, ritual and pottery

我阐明了在弥生时代，与首领和精英们的大土葬的出现和繁荣同时发生的，是用青铜祭品进行的公共仪式的衰落。在弥生时代，公共仪式的衰落是由于首领和精英作为政治权力的人的增长所带来的。弥生时代末期，日本西部有权势的首领之间形成了政治联盟，新首领为证明其继承权的合理性而举行的新仪式成为虚假的公共仪式。弥生中期后半期，九州北部地区的陶器风格结构发生了波动，九州东部、中部和四国地区的陶器风格元素开始流入九州北部地区。这种趋势在弥生时代末期逐渐加强。在Kohun时期初期，九州北部地区完成了这一陶器风格的转变过程。这一现象的发生，与以青铜器为祭品的集体仪式的衰落、首领大土葬的出现和繁荣、传统价值观念的萎缩有关。

I elucidated the fall of communal rites with bronze ritual objects during the Yayoi period took place in parallel with the emergence and prosperity of big mound burials for chiefs and elites.In the Yayoi period, the decline of communal rites were brought about from the growth of chiefs and elites as men of political power. At the end of Yayoi period, the political alliance was organized between powerful chiefs in western Japan, and new rite for justifying the inheritance of chiefship by new chief became to function as the false communal rites.In the latter half of the middle Yayoi period, the fluctuation took place in the structure of pottery style of Northern Kyushu district and the elements of pottery style in eastern Kyushu, Chugoku and Shikoku districts began to flow into Northern Kyushu district. This tendency was strengthened gradually till the end of Yayoi Period. At the beginning of Kohun period, this transformation process of pottery style in Northern Kyushu district completed. This phenomenon took place in connection with the fall of communal rites with bronze ritual objects, the emergence and prosperity of big mound burials for chiefs, and atrophy of the traditional sense of value.