Abstract

It has been suggested that the Early Bronze Age rectangular dwellings were also the result of the family composition of society at the time, and that the morphological variation was due to the family developmental cycle. In addition, multiple rectangular(unit) dwellings are connected in parallel, and the estimation that rectangular unit dwellings are residential spaces for nuclear families is also widespread. However, many researchers tend to interpret the relationship between long rectangular dwellings and rectangular dwellings coexisting in one site as a fixed cultural entity by judging that the long to short axes ratio reflects time. This perspective has raised problems that hinder the understanding of various factors on housing variation-changes in housing size due to family development, the use of housing (renewal, expansion, renovation), and disposal. To overcome this problem, this paper examined the possibility that the perception of household development cycles will highlight the dynamic aspects of the Bronze Age housing pattern in the Lower Reaches of Hangang River by comparing it with an archaeological explanatory model that can connect family and household changes. In the end, it is difficult to dynamically explain the early Bronze Age residential pattern of the Lower Reaches of Hangang River in the houses of different floor shapes, which focuses on the floor plan of the residence in a situation where overlapping patterns or absolute solidarity between dwellings are ambiguous. Therefore, it would be reasonable to assume the functional aspect of the change in dwelling structure according to the development of the family rather than grasping the difference in the shape of the residential floor shapes as a fixed cultural entity.

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