中西部地域 墳丘墓의 檢討

Abstract

Tomb with Bungu is a type of burial prevalent in GyungGi and ChungChung provinces in the mid-west Korean peninsular around four to five centuries. With regard to this method, a structure to place a corpse is built with timbers bound together, and covered with soil. This kind of method could be defined as another Pit tomb in a wide perspective. Still, the way of selecting burial places, structuring, and of placing relics indicates its original characteristics. Therefore, Tomb with Bungu can be categorized as a burial type distinct from Pit tomb, such as Pit tomb with Gwan-Gwuak and Pit tomb with Jugu. Tombs with Bungu are concentrated in the coastal area of the midwest Korean peninsular. Yet such distribution would be related to regional characteristics, since there is no detailed evidence to prove that it was a result of concentrated fishery villages. Tombs with Bungu are usually placed on the lower hills of mountain areas and are strictly delineated. Somtimes, a burial area consists only of Tombs with Bungu. Additionally, some of them show significant characteristics like holes dug out of the ground and mound remaining around the tombs, and unique arrangements of relics in the wooden coffin, which, for this type of Tombs with Bungu, is laid on the ground. Tomb with Bungu is a burial type developed, inspired by Pit tomb with Jugu. Mahan's burial type lays a corpse in a wooden coffin or a pottery coffin and covers the coffin with soil, supposedly without high mound to signal a tomb. Tomb with Bungu is a consequence of diversion of Pit tomb with Jugu, a burial style that mounds soil on the top of the coffin. Tomb with Bungu first appeared in the late third century, and consistently developed with distinct regional characteristics. Yet stone chamber tomb started to dominate the burial culture of the Baekje society, Tomb with Bungu also disappeared around the late fifth century.