유·소아묘를 통해 본 청동기시대 귀속지위의 출현과 양상

Abstract

Infant and children’s tombs are recognized as the decisive basis for the emergence of attribution status in society after the early Iron Age. On the other hand, in the Bronze Age, little research has been conducted on the appearance or meaning of infant and child tombs. However, even in the Bronze Age, the number of human bones of infants is increasing. The Bronze Age tombs were built for one person in the same way as adult tombs, and there is no discrimination in the layout and the burial of relics compared to adult tombs. Therefore, the existence of infants and children with high status is assumed. Most of the tombs where the human bones of infants and children were excavated are small. This is consistent with previous studies, and it is thought that the possibility of small tombs being infants and children has increased. As the existence of infant and children’s tombs became clear, the possibility that the status of attribution appeared even in the Bronze Age increased. However, it is thought that the status of attribution in the Bronze Age was not completed as in society after the early Iron Age. Nevertheless, it can be seen as evidence of the beginning of structural complaints. In other words, the structural inequality that has intensified since the early Iron Age is the result of the explosion of social discrimination that has been strengthened throughout the Bronze Age. The beginning was the emergence of a status of attribution that allowed the construction of infants and children's tombs.