화장 프로세스 모델링을 통해 본 석촌동 고분군의 화장과 의미

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explain the current state of cremated human remains excavated from the ancient tombs of Seokchon-dong, the royal graveyard of Hanseong Baekje. By modeling the process of cremation, and confirm where the current human bone data corresponds to, thereby identifying one aspect of the funeral process. First, by examining the characteristics of the cremated human bones, it was confirmed that the cremated human remains of Seokchon-dong were cremated before skeletonization, and the possibility of deliberate fragmentation of the cremated bones was low. Next, by modeling the process of secondary cremation, it was assumed that three types of archaeological features were predicted: ‘the burial’, ‘the crematory feature’ and the ‘disposal area of cremation remnants’, and it was also predicted that cremated remains would be excavated in a characteristic pattern from each of form of the features. the cremated bones excavated from the vicinity of ancient Tomb No. 3 in 1986, and vicinity of ancient Tomb No. 1 in 2010s were evaluated by AAI(anatomical accuracy index) and ADI(anatomical diversity index), substituting them into the model, it was found that the former was highly likely to correspond to ‘the crematory feature’ and the latter to be ‘the disposal area of cremation remnants’. According to this, ‘the burial’ related to cremation in the Seokchon-dong ancient tombs has not yet been investigated, and in ‘the disposal area of cremation remnants’, part of cremated bones were not conceptually treated as the body of the deceased. It shows that the concept of the body is ‘transformed’ through the cremation. However, this analysis is based on the premise of the classical concept of ‘secondary cremation’, and the possibility that a mortuary practice outside of this category should also be considered.