가야 고총고분 조사와 연구의 신동향

Abstract

The construction of the Ancient Tombs with a gigantic mound, the tomb of the head of the ancient political community, contains socio-political development at the time and centralization of power, and uses the state-of-the-art advanced civil construction technology of the time. In that sense, the Gaya Ancient Tomb with a gigantic mound are the most sophisticated civil construction technology-implemented structures, and behind them, there must have been a socially organized group. In order to examine the recent trends in archaeology in the Yeongnam region, it is also meaningful academically to organize various discussions on the construction of the Gaya Ancient Tomb and review its meaning. Since the 2000s, the survey of the Gaya Ancient Tombs with a gigantic mound has increased significantly than before, and many changes have occurred in the survey and research since 2010. In the case of ancient tombs, the investigation and research of ancient tombs can be seen as organically linked to each other because the investigation itself is an essential element for further research by reviewing and improving previous studies. A new trend of the Gaya Ancient Tombs with a gigantic mound Survey recognized the limitations of trench surveys in excavation surveys, and developed and applied various survey methods such as horizontal + step surveys and cross-soil surveys, allowing Access to civil engineering technology applied to the Gaya Ancient Tombs with a gigantic mound. In addition, the construction process was restored by recognizing the burial mound as a unit relic and conducting excavation surveys deductively, and various archaeological information for each process was obtained. In addition, through the convergence of technologies in adjacent fields such as physical exploration, it was possible to establish a more three-dimensional survey plan and conduct predictable surveys. With the introduction of GPS surveys to the excavation site, detailed contour topography was created, precise cross-sectional soil maps were created through precision photography, and panoramic color photographs were actively published in the report, enabling three-dimensional interpretation and comparative research. Based on the development of such research and dataization, the close a grave, the outer part of the ancient tomb, was recognized as a relic and led to a research trend to focus on explaining the construction technology. In other words, a new trend, who approached the Gaya Ancient Tombs with a gigantic mound from a civil archaeological perspective, was brought. Recently, based on the detailed perspective of civil engineering archaeology, the process and landscape of the Gaya Ancient Tombs are also focused on the formation of the Gaya Ancient Tombs, leading to research on the spatial structure and landscape analysis of the Gaya Ancient Tombs using GIS analysis techniques.This can be seen as a new research trend that saw the Gaya Ancient Tombs with a gigantic mound as part of a large-scale civil engineering project called the construction of the city wall of the time and recognized that other public civil structures and organic landscapes were built.