A Reexamination of the Terrestrial Animals Depicted on the Rock Art of Bangudae in Southern Korea: Focused on the Problems of Animal Domestication and Chronology
Author(s): Bong Kang
Year: 2015
Summary
Many aquatic and terrestrial animals such as whales, sea lions and turtles, tigers, wild cats, deer, boars, and weasels were identified on the rock art of Bangudae, located in the southeastern part of Korean peninsula. The scenes of human figures, whale hunting, boats, and net and fence huntings are also presented. Some Korean scholars have suggested that domesticated animals such as cow, horse, sheep, goat, pig, and dog appear in the rock art. This paper argues that domesticated animals do not exist on the rock art and its chronology is much earlier than the Bronze Age (ca. 300 B.C. – 100 A.D.).
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A Reexamination of the Terrestrial Animals Depicted on the Rock Art of Bangudae in Southern Korea: Focused on the Problems of Animal Domestication and Chronology. Bong Kang. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 397435)
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Keywords
General
Rock Art
Geographic Keywords
East/Southeast Asia
Spatial Coverage
min long: 66.885; min lat: -8.928 ; max long: 147.568; max lat: 54.059 ;