The Three Settlement Patterns of the Southern Korean Peninsula in the Proto-Three Kingdoms Period

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.

Settlement sites have been regarded as important data reflecting social and political complexities and organization. Consequently, settlement archaeology of the Proto-Three Kingdoms period in the Southern Korean peninsula has focused on the typological classification of settlements according to a typical hierarchical model to explain the boundaries and the socio-political organization of small polities. Difficulties in establishing chronology, however, have made previous studies focused on a single-region scale for examining each local polity. Despite the importance of the results of the previous research, there have been some limitations to investigating the time of profound socio-political transformation when over 50 small states interacted each other through wars, population movements, trades in the southern Korean Peninsula. To explain this dynamic situation, a broad-scale spatial analysis of settlement patterns and inter-regional comparisons with new methodology are clearly necessary. According to recent analyses of settlement and population distribution, three regions of the Southern Korean peninsula in the Proto-Three Kingdoms period clearly showed different site and population distributions, and they imply quite different social, political, and economic situations. There is a need to diversify the model to explain settlement patterns and their social organizations.

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): 23770