The Study of Early Neolithic Tombs in Korea

Summary

This is an abstract from the "New Thoughts on Current Research in East Asian Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Analysis was conducted on 88 tombs on the southern coast of the Korean. Human remains in these tombs have traces of malnutrition and repetitive work. The burials have a small numbers of burial goods but show differences in the number of grave artifacts. I grouped the number of burial artifacts and tomb construction behavior into groups and examined their correlation. Based on this, tombs were grouped in order by giving scores based on the number of burial artifacts, the degree of burial behavior, the variety of burial goods. These groups examined the layout of tombs, age, sex, aspects of infant graves, and position of behave and position of birth. Burial goods were concentrated in tombs of adults in their 20s and 30s. Burial goods in infant graves were more than those in burials of old age individuals. Concerning gender, there was a clear tendency for men to be buried with higher numbers of different tools. I also explore the burial treatment of infants and burial ornaments, which have different characteristics depending on material type, damage status and burial methods. I argue that Neolithic society of the Korean is not simply egalitarian but complex society with an early phase of inequality.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• New Thoughts on Current Research in East Asian Archaeology   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 24667