Abstract

The split log coffin burial in South Korea is largely divided into seven stages. Stage I(250~200 B.C.) featured an attached-round rim vessel and a bronze implement; Stage II(199~100 B.C.) a type Ⅰ rectangular cast-iron axe; Stage III(101~50 B.C.) an attached-triangular rim vessel, a type-II rectangular cast-iron axe, a type-I lozenge cast-iron axe, and a type-I rectangular flat iron axe; Stage IV(49 B.C.~1 A.D.) a nascent soft gray pottery, a type-II and type-III rectangular cast-iron axe, a type-II lozenge cast-iron axe, a type-II rectangular flat iron axe, and a type-II short lozenge flat iron axe; Stage V(1~50 A.D.) a type-III rectangular cast-iron axe, a type-III lozenge cast-iron axe, and a type-II long lozenge flat iron axe; Stage VI(51~100 A.D.) a type-III long lozenge flat iron axe; Stage VII(101~150 A.D.) the latest type of a gray pottery in the early period, etc.
 The split log coffin burial in South Korea arose in the context of South Korea on its own. It is thought that only beliefs and rituals for old big trees and big trees existed from late the first half of the Bronze Age to the first half of the Songgugni type culture, and that there were rituals for big trees(立大木) in the second half of the Songgugni type culture or in the first half of the slender bronze dagger type culture. It is also thought that returning to the Daegok-ri type culture, the creative chiefdom stratification of the Daegok-ri group that dominated the bronze implement technology occurred as old big trees and big trees were converted to split log coffins. Split log coffins generated in the inland area of Jeollanam-do were distributed in the Man-kyung river basin and Gyeonggi region before 100 B.C. Since then, they spread to the eastern part of South Korea which later became the core part of their distribution, and they became extinct according to the change of burial concept before and after 150 A.D.

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