The earthenware is a material that prevails in excavation of antiquities as a typical relic representing a certain culture since it can be preserved well in various deposit environments and well reflects characteristics by ages. A number of natural sc...
The earthenware is a material that prevails in excavation of antiquities as a typical relic representing a certain culture since it can be preserved well in various deposit environments and well reflects characteristics by ages. A number of natural scientific researches and studies on the earthenware are conducted both internationally and internally. Domestic natural scientific researches are mainly about its work techniques and also presumption of produced area. Domestic natural scientific researches on the earthenware analyze archeologically sought issues in fragments, so a question is raised whether those studies are able to provide archeological data with new information or they can accumulate research materials systematically. This kind of problem occurs when studies give prominence only to analysis of earthenware without understanding natural scientific researches and acknowledging its restrictions. Therefore, it is true that natural scientific research data on earthenware that is fragmentary and not sufficiently accumulated, cannot resolve quite a few of archeological problems. Since the natural scientific research on earthenware analyzes its material quality and gets target results in the end, it is necessary to verify and examine closely the selection of appropriate methods of analysis and the inquiry into the analyzed data on the basis of objective and scientific grounds.
Through this research, I tried mutual comparison between relics within existing recording chronological frameworks for soft earthenware among archaeological finds in a residential area in the era of the Three Kingdoms.
I intended to find similarity between the same relics in the same period by analyzing body composition and firing temperatures. After getting trace elements contained ,in the earthenware collected from 4 historic sites in the era of the Three Kingdoms nearby Jeongeup and Gochang using ICP-AES (Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectrometry), the formation of elements among respective places and sample was compared and analyzed based on the proportion of content. Slight difference of content was found in contained quantity of elements due to regional characteristics. Also, via the calcinations temperatures assumed by TGA/DTA, we could confirm that the calcinations temperatures also show only a shade of difference just like the similarity of elements.
A thesis submitted to Committee of the Graduate School of Hanseo University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master Theology in December, 2004