경남 해안지역 마연토기의 전개

Abstract

This paper examines an aspect of the Bronze Age culture in the coastal area of Gyeongsangnam-do by studying a burnished pottery. The Gyeongnam coastal area is a highly important region in studies on the Bronze Age culture of East Asia, but is not receiving proper attention. Thus, this study examines the periodical changes and regionality of the Gyeongnam coastal area as well as its influential relationships with surroundings by studying a burnished pottery, which has abundant data. A burnished pottery at the earliest period in the Gyeongnam coastal area is represented by a mounted jar in the latter part of the early days, which had been a trend in the same aspect as in the Namgang River Basin. The Gyeongnam coastal area during that period was the same cultural area with the Namgang River Basin. This painted jar is further distributed to Miryanggang River - Geumhogang River and Honam area by the end of the period. This expansion of distribution shows the flow of culture in both ways, which brings significance to the study on exchange during the Bronze Age. By the period of Songguk-ri, a painted jar maintains its original shape while adopting red burnishing technique instead of painted technique for the surface decorations, thereby changing the form into red burnishing extroverted mouth type. Then a completely new form that implemented the introverted attribute of the neck called the jar with introverted mouth is created in the Geumhogang River - Miryanggang River Basin. In other words, people in the Gyeongnam coastal area used the jar with extroverted mouth maintaining the tradition of a painted jar while also using the newly created jar with introverted mouth by introducing foreign elements by the period of Songguk-ri. Of the two types, people preferred the jar with introverted mouth. Such changes in burnished pottery prove that the periodical change from the early days to Songguk-ri period occurred while maintaining its own indigenous culture. Moreover, as the Gyeongnam coastal area was separated from the Namgang River Basin, it formed its own unique regional culture. Moreover, the fact that there are elements of culture in surrounding areas while showing reinforced regionality indicates that exchange of culture between regions had become more active.