한반도 중서부지역 신석기시대 중·후기 토기의 변화양상

Abstract

Researches on the Neolithic period in the midwest regions of the Korean Peninsula found a chance for growth in the discovery of large-scale settlement relics. Most of recent studies were concentrated in the area of settlement itself with interest in pottery reduced somewhat. There is no doubt about the importance of pottery in archeology, and pottery chronology makes a major axis in potteryrelated researches. This study thus set out to investigate pottery and re-review the middle and late chronology of the New Stone Age based on the results. The study focused on pottery with such patterns as horizontal bands of oblique and tunnel entrance. The investigator especially reviewed tunnel entrance by the attributes, attempted to categorize patterns based on the results, examined the creation of patterns by the relics, and established relic groups based on the results. Then the relic groups were sorted out in relative chronology through continuity, discontinuity, and time direction. The result was a total five-stage chronology. The trends of changes were sorted out as follows: Stages 1~3 can be explained by the increasingly acute angles of tunnel entrance, the increase of 'mouth-limited carving', and the reduction of pattern section, whereas Stages 4 and 5 can be explained by the decreasing length and widening intervals of 'pattern elements' with some differences among small areas. As for the trends of changes from Stage 3 to Stage 4, given that some pattern elements were shared between the two stages, it seems that the changes were sequential. However, it is difficult to explain through increasingly acute angles, one of the changing trends in Stages 1~3, and through the trends of changes in Stages 4 and 5. Considering that the percentage of acute angles was not high in some relics(including Seongnaeri) unlike other relics in Stage 3 and that those relics had room for fragmentations along with their neighboring relics, there is a need for additional reviews.