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Life and Death in the Korean Bronze Age (c. 1500-400 BC) - An analysis of settlements and monuments in the mid-Korean peninsula (Paperback)
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Life and Death in the Korean Bronze Age (c. 1500-400 BC) - An analysis of settlements and monuments in the mid-Korean peninsula (Paperback)
Series: British Archaeological Reports International Series
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This research focuses on the Bronze Age in selected areas of Korea;
Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi province. Two forms of evidence -
settlements and monuments - are taken into account to identify
their relationship with landscape and the social changes occurring
between ca. 1500 to 400 cal BC. Life and death in the Bronze Age in
Korea has not been synthetically investigated before, due to the
lack of evidence from settlements. However, since academic and
rescue excavations have increased, it is now possible to examine
the relationship between settlements and monuments on a broad scale
and over a long-term sequence, although there are still limitations
in the archaeological evidence. The results of GIS (Geographical
Information System) analysis and Bayesian modelling of the
radiocarbon dates from this region can be interpreted as suggesting
that Bronze Age people in the mid-Korean peninsula had certain
preferences for their habitation and mortuary places. The locations
of two archaeological sites were identified and statistical
significance was generated for their positioning on soil that was
associated with agriculture. It was found that settlements tended
to be located at a higher elevation with fine views and that
monuments tended to be situated in the border zones between
mountains and plains and also within the boundary of a 5km site
catchment adjusted for energy expenditure, centring on each
settlement. This configuration is reminiscent of the concept of the
auspicious location, as set out in the traditional geomantic theory
of Pungsu. It can be argued that Bronze Age people chose the place
for the living and the dead with a holistic perspective and a
metaphysical approach that placed human interaction with the
natural world at the centre of their decision-making processes.
These concepts were formed out of the process of a practical
adaptation to the Bronze Age landscape and environment in order to
practice agriculture as a subsistence economy, but they also
exerted a profound influence upon later Korean peoples and their
identities.
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