무덤으로 본 新石器時代 漁撈民의 海洋景觀 構築 = Reading Processes of Marine Forager Landscape Construction through Burials : The case of the eastern and southern coastal areas of the Korean Peninsula in the Chulmun Period

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The coastal foragers of the Southern Korean Chulmun Period actively exploited marine resources from the Initial Phase (6000~4500 BCE), and they also maintained a complex network with contemporaneous communities of Japan’s Kyushu Island. Researchers have usually thought that the islands, with their large numbers of shell mounds, served as economic patches for coastal foragers. However, following the excavation of several recently excavated burial sites at islands such as Gadeok, Yeondae, and Yokji, it has become clear that we need to transform our traditional perception of islands as merely resource patches. In other words, the islands should not be regarded only in terms of their functional aspects; we must attempt a fundamental change in our understanding of islands, not as a materialistic ‘space’ for resource exploitation or burials but as an empirical ‘place’ for rituals, memories, living activities and so on for foragers. In doing so, islands acquired meanings of ‘spaceness’ of their own. This kind of ‘spaceness’ can be connected with the monumental characteristics of the islands. Islands were monumental places for the coastal foragers of the Korean Chulmun period and economic and ritual practices (including resource exploitation and burial making, etc.) enhanced the ‘spaceness’ of these islands.