Python helps visualise mysteries of Japanese Kofun burial mounds

There are precious few archaeologists in Japan, and only a handful who produce their own software programs to analyze geographic information. One who does is Professor Izumi Niiro of the Okayama University. A convert from Perl, Professor Niiro now uses Python to perform data analysis via the Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) in order to accurately survey the Japanese burial grounds known as Kofun that were built between the third and seventh centuries.