Description
Book SynopsisBurial Mounds in Europe and Japan brings together specialists of the European Bronze and Iron Age and the Japanese Yayoi and Kofun periods for the first time to discuss burial mounds in a comparative context. The book aims to strengthen knowledge of Japanese archaeology in Europe and vice versa. The papers demonstrate many methodological and interpretive commonalities in the archaeology of burial mounds in Japan and Europe and provide a series of state-of-the-art case studies highlighting many different aspects of burial mound research in both regions. Topics addressed by both European and Japanese specialists include research histories, excavation methods, origins and development of graves with burial mounds, the relationship of burial mounds to settlements and landscape, and above all administrative power and ritual.
Table of ContentsForeword ;
Burial Mounds in Europe and Japan: An Introduction (Werner Steinhaus and Thomas Knopf) [Open Access: Download] ;
Hallstatt Burial Mounds Then and Now: Excavations and Changing Images in the History of Research (Nils Müller-Scheeßel) ;
Excavating the Mounded Tombs of the Kofun Period of the Japanese Archipelago: A History of Research and Methods (Tatsuo NAKAKUBO) ;
Bronze Age Burial Mounds in Northern and Central Europe: Their Origins and the Development of Diversity in Time and Space (Frank Nikulka) ;
Emergence and Development of Burial Mounds in the Yayoi Period (Hisashi NOJIMA) ;
Princes, Chiefs or Big Men? Burial Mounds as Reflections of Social Structure in the Hallstatt Period (Wolfram Schier) ;
Social Stratification and the Formation of Mounded Tombs in the Kofun Period of Protohistoric Japan (Ken’ichi SASAKI) ;
Burial Mound/Landscape-Relations. Approaches Put forward by European Prehistoric Archaeology (Ariane Ballmer) ;
Mounded Tomb Building during the Kofun Period: Location and Landscape (Akira SEIKE) ;
Burial Mounds and Settlements. Their Relations in the Late Hallstatt and Early La Tène-Period (6th–4th century BC) (Ines Balzer) ;
The Relationship between Mounded Tombs, Settlements, and Residences in the Kofun Period: Reflecting Social Changes? (Takehiko MATSUGI) ;
Aspects of Early Iron in Central Europe (Manfred K. H. Eggert) ;
Iron and its Relation to Mounded Tombs on the Japanese Islands (Hisashi NOJIMA) ;
The Development of Metalworking and the Formation of Political Power in the Japanese Archipelago (Takehiko MATSUGI) ;
Monuments for the Living and the Dead: Early Celtic Burial Mounds and Central Places of the Heuneburg Region (Dirk Krausse and Leif Hansen) ;
Mounded Tombs of the Kofun Period: Monuments of Administration and Expressions of Power Relationships (Shin’ya FUKUNAGA) ;
Burial Mounds in Broader Perspective. Visibility, Ritual and Power (Chris Scarre) ;
An Introduction to the Yukinoyama Mounded Tomb (Naoya UEDA) ;
The Significance of the Nonaka Mounded Tomb (Joseph Ryan) ;
