The head-burial site in the Numazu city and the skulls of the medieval Japanese.

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  • 沼津市千本浜の首塚と関東地方の中世日本人頭骨
  • ヌマズシ センボン ハマ ノ クビズカ ト カントウ チホウ ノ チュウセイ

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1) The head-burial site or the "Kubizuka" is located at the seashore of Sembon-hama, Numazu City, Shizuoka Prefecture. According to the local tradition, a number of corpses, which died on the occasion of medieval battles taken place in the middle of the 16th century in this asea, were buried in the Sembon-hama beach. In 1900, a neighboring volunteer collected exposed human bones from the beach and reburied them under the present Kubizuka's monument.<br>2) On the basis of temporal bones, total number of skeletons buried in the site are estimated to be over 105 individuals, of which 2/3 are supposed to be of male sex and 1/3 of female.<br>3) Marked traces of injuries were recog-nized on some of the skulls, such as sharp incisions by swards, scratch injuries by sliding swards, round perforations by stabbing with pointed weapons as well as some sawn injuries.<br>4) Comparing the Kubizuka people with the medieval war-deals from the Zaimokuza site (A. D. 1333) in cranial features, the former coincide exactly with the latter. This will suggest that the burial site ori-ginated from the medieval age as the stated local tradition.<br>5) Based on the skulls excavated from several medieval sites, so far reported, the typical cranial features of the medieval Japaneses will be summerized as follows: dolichocrany, chameprosopy, chamaeconchy, platyrrhinny and flattness of nasal root.

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