A Reexamination of the Human Skeletal Remains Excavated from the Ancient Site at Gacheon-dong, Daegu

Abstract

삼국시대의 석곽묘가 집중 분포하는 대구 가천동유적에서는 몇 차례의 발굴을 통해 상당수의 인골이 출토된 바 있다. 하지만 출토 인골의 형질분석 과정에서 일부 자료가 뒤섞인 정황이 확인되어 이를 재검토하였다. 재검토 대상은 ‘가천동 고분군’과 ‘가천동 추가 고분군’의 유적명칭에서 혼란이 야기된 1~40호 석곽묘 출토 인골과, 출토위치가 고려되지 않고 분석된 ‘가천동 고분군’의 50호 석곽묘이다. 1~40호 석곽묘 출토 인골에 대해 재검토한 결과, 기존 분석상 23기 석곽묘의 26개체를 ‘가천동 고분군’의 9기 석곽묘 9개체와 ‘가천동 추가 고분군’의 22기 석곽묘 22개체로 정정할 수 있었다. 또한 50호 석곽묘의 검토에서는 기존 1개체로 분석된 것을 주곽과 부곽에 각각 1개체인 것으로 바로잡을 수 있었다. 아울러 ‘가천동 고분군’과 ‘가천동 추가 고분군’ 두 유적 출토 인골의 기존 형질분석 결과에 새로이 정정된 부분을 반영하여 재정리해보았다. 그리고 50호 석곽묘 부곽에서 두개골편이 출토된 특이사례에 대해서도 순장이 아닌 전쟁, 의례 등과의 관련성을 제시해보았다Plentiful human skeletal remains have been unearthed from several excavation attempts at Gacheon-dong, Daegu where numerous stone-lined tombs of the Three Kingdoms period are densely located. However, in the process of physical analysis of the excavated human bones, it was identified that some data were mixed; therefore, it has been revisited. Objects that has been reviewed are human bones excavated from the No.1 to No.40 stone-lined tombs with confusion caused by the naming of ‘the ancient tombs at Gacheon-dong’ and ‘the additional ancient tombs at Gacheon-dong’, and the No.50 stone-lined tomb of ‘the ancient tombs at Gacheon-dong’ that were physically analyzed without considering the excavation site. As a result of reviewing human bones excavated from the No.1 to No.40, 26 individuals originally analyzed from 23 stone-lined tombs was revised 9 individuals from 9 stone-lined tombs of ‘the ancient tombs at Gacheon-dong’ and 22 individuals from 22 stone-lined tombs of ‘the additional ancient tombs at Gacheon-dong’. According to the review of the No.50 stone-lined tomb, an object originally regarded as an individual was revisited as each individual in the main chamber and the subordinate chamber. In addition, the corrected results were reflected and reorganized in the existing results that physically analyzed excavated human bones from ‘the ancient tombs at Gacheon-dong’ and ‘the additional ancient tombs at Gacheon-dong’. We also propose a possible relationship of an extraordinary example of the No.50 stone-lined tomb that found a skull piece with war, ceremony and so forth, not with sacrificial burial.