The ironware sets which were supplied to the eastern part of the southern Korean peninsula and those to the western part of it, around the 3rd-the 1st century BCE, differed from each other. In the western part of the southern Korean peninsula around t...
The ironware sets which were supplied to the eastern part of the southern Korean peninsula and those to the western part of it, around the 3rd-the 1st century BCE, differed from each other. In the western part of the southern Korean peninsula around the 2nd century BCE, the casted ironwares such as axes(斧), chisels(鑿), and javelins(사) were concentrically spreaded; but in the eastern part of it, the forged ironwares such as swords(劍), lances(모), and spears (戈) were. When archeological materials obtained till now are compared with the circumstances in textual records, such differences seems to have the most provability to be related with the material and technical interchanges with Wiman-Joseon and with the migrators displaced by the fall of Wimanjoseon.