한반도 남부지방 출토 劍把形 劍鞘 제작기술에 관한 小考

Abstract

This study intends to pursuit the characteristics and making techniques of dagger scabbards unearthed from the southern region of the Korean Peninsula during the Korean-type bronze dagger culture period. Few sorts of dagger scabbard forms including round stick-shaped have been founded, though, hilt-shaped dagger scabbards take majority. Although, each regions of southern Korean peninsula shared a model called hilt-shape as a motif, it could be pointed out local colors of each region in making process obviously. It might be assumed that various conditions and environments of the each community were different in accepting and developing such techniques in the process of transitioning the scabbard culture to the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. There have been difficulties in restoring making techniques of wood scabbard core and attached metal ornaments owing to its unique hilt shaped(it seems like a bamboo joint). Several making process restoration proposals have been proposed, but there has been no destructive analysis or archaeological experiment attempts support them objectively. In this study, based on the observation of the metal ornaments added to the scabbards, the objective basis was secured by newly pointing out real data that can support the so-called ‘lost wax casting on wooden inner mold’ technique. In addition, it could be pointed out that a making technique similar to the ‘flatting technique’ was applied in the process of combining and finishing metal ornaments.