남강유역 청동기시대 무덤의 장축방향 검토

Abstract

The alluvial land formed in the basin of Nam River was excavated for investigation in a large scale as it was submerged for dam construction or chosen as site for various constructions. Hundreds of tombs of the Bronze Age were discovered in the excavation and most of them were found clustered in a cross. However, some of them laid in different directions to long axis from others in the same cluster. Therefore, it was required to review the criteria used to select the direction to long axis. So far, it has been considered that direction of tomb(dolmen) to major axis is determined by specific bearing, macro-topographical features such as river, mountain, or hill, or micro-geographical features in a site. But these did not turn out correlated with the tombs of the Bronze Age found in the basin of Nam River. Therefore, the present study examined the correlation between the arrangement of the tombs and other ruins to find out the criteria for selection of the direction to long axis of the Bronze Age tombs in the basin of Nam River. In the review, it was found that the tombs with a different direction to long axis in the same historic site were built in different period and closely correlated to the long axis of other ruins. With these ground, this study came to know that the direction of tombs to long axis is closely related to the movement route of people at that time when the characteristics of other ruins were examined. The correlation of the direction of tombs to long axis and the movement route was verified with 50,000:1 topographic map of Chosun by comparing and reviewing the number of movement routes that connect the direction of tombs to long axis and inner/outer of the ruins, and the directions. Last, this study examined the structure of the tombs and excavated relics in the target ruins and those ruins connected through the movement routes and reviewed the correlation between the propagation pathway of the tombs and Duhayng. The examination and review revealed that the direction of the tombs of the Bronze Age to long axis in the basin of Nam River was set in the direction that a buried person moved from. And rom Gahodong relics and Chojeondong relics that laid in direction to where ancestorial reins, it can be assumed hat Duhyang was set as the notion of returning a buried person to where he or she came from(origin or population).