安城 盤諸里聚落의 變遷相

Abstract

The Banje-ri remain in Anseong is a highland settlement characterized by its circular ditches around the mountain top in which it is located. Constructed around the early Iron Age, there were a relatively large number of residential areas, with a total of 72. According to carbon 14 dating, the time it was constructed is estimated to be from BC the 8 to 5th century and this range also overlaps with the late Bronze Age, the time the Songguk-ri Culture was constructed. Furthermore, Anseong is in the outermost region of the Songguk-ri culture. This paper aims to examine the societal change of Banje-ri settlement during the early Iron Age in its relation to the contemporary Sogguk-ri society under the assumption that it could reveal certain aspects of the Sogguk-ri Culture. According to the complementary serration method applied to all the excavated artifacts, five developmental stages of the settlement were distinguished. This chronology was then verified through the examinations of the artifacts’ stratigraphical relations. Stage I-a is characterized by seven houses from which the artifacts produced in the middle Bronze Age were excavated. These houses had long rectangular shapes for large families and were dispersed across the large area. Stage I-b is characterized by a small number of long rectangular houses and more middle/small-sized houses for nuclear families. The early Iron Age culture was prevalent in this stage but the artifacts from the middle Bronze Age and Songguk-ri Culture were also found. The ratio of middle and small-sized houses in Stage II is 1:1. It was also when the household communities, consisting of one middle-sized house and one or two small-sized house(s) for each, were appearing. From then onwards, the early Iron Age culture prevailed while middle-sized houses gradually disappeared. Stage III was when the circular ditches were built. A large-sized house for ritual was located on the inside rim of the ditches surrounding the mountain top with a huge rock. One large-sized house, two middle-sized houses, and a few small-sized houses were located outside of the ditches. The large-sized house inside of the ditches was functioning a major role in the ritual and is assumed to be resided by the elite of the settlement. The ditches disappeared in Stage IV and two middle-sized houses and four small-sized houses existed then. Three tombs were constructed in the two graveyards formed in the lower slope. From the fact that the circular ditches were to demarcate the ritual place for the worship of the heavenly god, it is inferred that there was a natural disaster threatening people’s lives in Stage III. This event is also assumed to be related to the climate deterioration the Songguk-ri settlement underwent and the flood that swept the Jijwa-ri settlement