Johnny LaRue
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kofun
Had to do a chisekichousa-land survey, as the city is updating it's maps and land registrations. This meant a day long trek up and over a mountain ridge with a party of surveyors and old-timers, the land owners. The survey team pounded stakes and we had to agree on borders. Long story short, one of the highlights was "discovering" 1500 year old tombs, kofun, behind the local temple, had no idea!
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Hey JohnE,
Whoa! Hey, thanks for sharing these cool pictures. You're in Hyogo right ? I don't know if I heard right or not, but is it true that some of the first peoples who came to Japan from Asia settled in and around the Hyogo area ?
Wondering about old arrowheads and stone tools - have you found any of that kind of stuff in your area?
ken
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Hi Ken,
Those kofun are cool ne? There are burial mounds all around this area. I've never found any pottery of arrowheads though would love to look. A metal detector would be cool to poke around the woods with.
Here's an informative site about the kofun era, and of course Jomon and Yayoi.
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ANCJAPAN/YAMATO.HTM
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