영남해안지역의 반원형검파두식석검의 출현과 전개

Abstract

With regard to initial stone daggers that have been recently attention in the academia, this study viewed the process through which stone daggers with semicircular pommel fittings, which have been discussed as the prototype of stone daggers, had developed, as the regional characteristics of Yeongnam's coastal area, and tracked the location of stone daggers with semicircular pommel fittings during the process through which stone daggers developed in the Korean Peninsula. The stone daggers of the Korean Peninsula appeared no later than the first half of the early Bronze Age, and originated from daggers made from bones in northeast China and the Tumen River basin. Although they are not stone daggers with definite patterns such as tanged stone daggers, stone daggers with one-stepped handle, and stone daggers with two-stepped handle, they are mainly characterized by the pattern of small daggers with blood grooves. After developing certain patterns in the first half of the early Bronze Age, they began to develop their distinct regional characteristics in each area in the latter half of the early Bronze Age. Stone daggers with semicircular pommel fittings appeared under the influence of bronze daggers with semicircular pommel fittings that were introduced from northeast China in the process through which stone daggers developed in the Korean Peninsula. The process shows that the imitation of a bronze dagger was carried out several times as the information about a bronze dagger was continuously introduced to and influenced the Korean peninsula. Specifically, stone daggers with semicircular pommel fittings are classified into a non-hole type stone dagger, a loop type stone dagger, and a semicircular hole type stone dagger, which appeared in the same order. Non-hole type stone daggers and loop type stone daggers appeared around the end of the first half to the middle of the latter half of the early Bronze Age in the form of adding foreign pommel fittings elements on the basis of stone daggers with two-stepped handle with rectangular upper and lower handle ends found in Yeongnam's coastal area. Around the middle of the latter half of the early Bronze Age, typical stone daggers with semicircular pommel fittings imitating the whole pattern of a bronze dagger with semicircular pommel fittings emerged and widely used around Yeongnam's coastal area. However, they declined and disappeared during the early Songguk-ri period.