봉토분 구획성토의 재검토 - 낙동강 중류 이동지역 조사사례를 중심으로

Abstract

Researchers have varying opinions about whether the term "compartmentalized embankment" is appropriate and serves its purpose when it comes to raising the mound of tumuli. This study aims to divide the characteristics of the compartment into two from the perspective that the term compartmentalization is not necessarily based on meticulous planning and to reevaluate the nature of the compartmentalized embankment by analyzing its pattern from the tumuli in the Middle Nadong-river Basin. The analysis results showed that the quantity of radial compartments in the tumuli varies by the vertical process of each stage of the tumulus, and that both the number of radial compartments and vertical processes tend to increase in relation to the size of the tumulus. In addition, when it was possible to identify the first compartmentalized planning row, it was found that only a single planning row was created diagonally to the main burial chamber with a pit burial style. In short, the radial compartment means that the efficiency-based compartmentalization occurs again within the planned compartment, and the number of compartments increases as the size of the tumulus expands, indicating that the number of efficiency-based compartments increases regarding the maximum daily fill volume and the breaks during work. However, in contrast to this trend, there are cases where the number of compartments appears relatively high though the size of the mound is small, which suggests that the number of efficiency-based compartments has increased due to the limited labor force invested in the construction of the tumulus. The tumuli were constructed scientifically and systematically as a result of the civil engineering technology of the time, though it would have been challenging to standardize it. The application of civil engineering technology in the construction of the tumuli may not have strictly followed a set pattern even if there was one, but would have rather been adapted flexibly to accommodate the conditions of the construction site. This is also shown in the aspect of compartmentalized embankment, suggesting that it was used as a technique to raise the mound rather than primarily to distribute the work.