대구 월배지역 입석의 기능과 출현 배경

Abstract

This thesis aims to review the functions of the menhirs located in the Weolbae Alluvial Fan, Daegu City and their emerging background. To do so the following variables have been analyzed comprehensively: their distribution, topography and geographical features, the distributions of both settlements and dolmens during the Bronze Age, the general pictures of the socio-cultural features and subsistence in Youngnam Region during the Korean Bronze Age, etc. The analysis has reached a conclusion that a series of the menhirs located in the Weolbae Alluvial Fan, Daegu City, had been built up during the Late Bronze Age dated from 8th Century BCE to 4th Century BCE(called the Songguk-ri Phase), which had witnessed the agricultural intensification and village life by the agricultural sedentary groups. That is, the agricultural villagers had built up a series of the menhirs as a strategy not only to reproduce their exclusive right of their village territory including agricultural fields but also to justify it. So it is reasonable to consider a series of the menhirs as a monument for an agricultural sedentary society in the Weolbae Alluvial Fan, Daegu City. The menhirs have been thought to have various functions such as village territorial markers(for example, menhirs at Weolam-dong and Sangin-dong), a ritual center marker or abstractive - collective ancestral worship center(for example, the menhir at Jincheon-dong), village space-dividing standard monument, group’s symbolic landscape monument and so on. The functional diversification of the menhirs had been occurred and their symbolic meanings had been diversified and changed continuously so that their symbolic cultural layers have had multiple meanings. The villages in the Weolbae Alluvial Fan, Daegu City had spatial divisions such as dwelling areas, cemetery areas, ritual areas, agricultural fields, and so on. The menhirs are thought to have been spatial standard monument to recognize the location of each area. In addition the menhir at Jincheon-dong vividly shows the incorporation of megalith culture and petroglyph culture. There are many future research challenges to seek more solid evidences on dating of menhirs, their builder’s settlement patterns and structures over time, and future excavation of the wider areas around the menhirs no. 1 and No. 3 at Weolam-dong. So the contemporaneity of the menhirs must be revisited further in the future by way of more accumulating stratigraphic evidences. The characterization study of menhir stone must be fulfilled to identify stone quarrying sources.