Download or read book Life and Death in the Korean Bronze Age c 1500 400 BC written by Sun Woo Kim and published by British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited. This book was released on 2015 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research focuses on the Bronze Age in selected areas of Korea; Seoul, Incheon, and Gyeonggi province. Two forms of evidence - settlements and monuments - are taken into account to identify their relationship with landscape and the social changes occurring between ca. 1500 to 400 cal BC. ... The results of GIS (Geographical Information System) analysis and Bayesian modelling of the radiocarbon dates from this region can be interpreted as suggesting that Bronze Age people in the mid-Korean peninsula had certain preferences for their habitation and mortuary places. The locations of two archaeological sites were identified and statistical significance was generated for their positioning on soil that was associated with agriculture. It was found that settlements tended to be located at a higher elevation with fine views and that monuments tended to be situated in the border zones between mountains and plains and also within the boundary of a 5km site catchment adjusted for energy expenditure, centring on each settlement. This configuration is reminiscent of the concept of the auspicious location, as set out in the traditional geomantic theory of Pungsu. It can be argued that Bronze Age people chose the place for the living and the dead with a holistic perspective and a metaphysical approach that placed human interaction with the natural world at the centre of their decision-making processes. These concepts were formed out of the process of a practical adaptation to the Bronze Age landscape and environment in order to practice agriculture as a subsistence economy.-Publishers website

Download or read book Life and Death in the Korean Bronze Age ca 1500 400 BC written by Sun Woo Kim and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bronze Age in Korea written by Maurizio Riotto and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outline of Korean archaeology based on an extensive overview of Korean, Japanese and Western sources. A useful introduction to a complex field of research, and accessible to non-specialists.

Download or read book Emergence of Agricultural Society written by Won Choi and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is generally known that the expansion of the Songguk-ri culture during the Middle Bronze Age was closely related with the spread of rice paddy agriculture over the Korean Peninsula. Despite this general agreement, however, we do not have a good grasp of the procedure of spread of Songguk-ri culture in Korea: many different regional variations around the Songguk-ri culture what is called Pre-Songguk-ri culture have interfered with our comprehension of the process of emergence and development of the Songguk-ri culture. Also absolute dates corresponding to the Pre-Songguk-ri material culture are not accumulated enough to build a fine chronology and the date corresponds to the well-known wiggles in the calibration curve between 800 - 400 BC, where most of the MBA sites are located. The recent increase of radiocarbon dates, however, still provides chances for exploring temporal patterns of the Bronze Age (BA) artifact types through suitable statistical analyses, and then these temporal patterns were expected to enable to rearrange material cultures and their chronological relations during the BA of Central Korea. A total of 412 radiocarbon dates from 278 pithouses were collected and dates from the same pithouse are combined through testing their contemporaneity by using some statistical techniques: t-test, F-test, and Chauvenet's criterion, and weighing and averaging their values in order to obtain an accurate calibrated date as well as to avoid giving much more weight to the pithouses with multiple dates and their associated artifacts. Then these radiocarbon dates were used to produce the summed probability distribution of the calibrated dates associated with each artifact type using CALPAL and interpret the distribution as a proxy for the temporal distribution of the artifact type. For the spatial analyses at a macro level, the artifact data were incorporated into a GIS database and map 210 sites as point features with coordinates. Two spatial statistical techniques, standard distance and standard deviational ellipse, are applied to draw spatial pattering of each artifact type using pertinent analytical tools of ArcGIS program and multi-distance spatial cluster analysis, also known as the Ripley's K-function. These analytical tools were applied to tool assemblages, pottery, and pithouses to examine their temporal and spatial distributions and establish a detailed chronology for the Early and Middle Bronze Age. As a result, it is possible to confirm that the frequency and spatial distribution of artifacts changed greatly around 2950 Cal BP and 2750 Cal BP, suggesting that a new subsistence strategy developed in the lower and middle reaches of the Geum River region. Especially the region of the middle and lower reaches of the Geum River was found to have distinctly different characteristics. The dynamic and diachronic change of Bronze Age culture was also observed in detail through pottery and pithouses. To sum up, the reduction in size of the large rectangular shaped pithouses for this period suggests that changes were taking place in the organizational system of the community and that there was large-scale population movement to find new farmlands suitable for rice paddy agriculture as opposed to the previous method of dry field farming. And the middle and lower reaches of the Geum River, the Yeongsan River region and the Nakdong River region may have been suitable for this newly adopted subsistence strategy. In other words, the spread of the Songguk-ri culture was not through the diffusion of a culture from its stable core to its peripheries, but occurred in conjunction with the dispersal and movement of populations which followed changes in subsistence strategy and which resulted in the formation of a new culture. In addition, in this period of social upheaval, it may have been the less stable cultural peripheries, rather than the cultural core regions, that were more likely do adopt new cultural elements (in particular, with regard to subsistence) and attempt change. The fact that Pre-Songguk-ri or Songguk-ri style pithouses are rarely found in the central region of the Yeoksamdong culture sphere, and the chaotic nature of the cultural assemblages of the area south of the Yeoksamdong culture sphere may be understood in this context.

Download or read book Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World written by Colin Renfrew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.

Download or read book The Arts of Korea written by Elizabeth Hammer and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. This book was released on 2001 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the rich artistic heritage of Korea: a blend of native tradition, foreign infusions, and sophisticated technical skill.

Download or read book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind written by Julian Jaynes and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2000-08-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Download or read book A History of Korea written by Jinwung Kim and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary North and South Korea are nations of radical contrasts: one a bellicose totalitarian state with a failing economy; the other a peaceful democracy with a strong economy. Yet their people share a common history that extends back more than 3,000 years. In this comprehensive new history of Korea from the prehistoric era to the present day, Jinwung Kim recounts the rich and fascinating story of the political, social, cultural, economic, and diplomatic developments in Korea's long march to the present. He provides a detailed account of the origins of the Korean people and language and the founding of the first walled-town states, along with the advanced civilization that existed in the ancient land of "Unified Silla." Clarifying the often complex history of the Three Kingdoms Period, Kim chronicles the five-century long history of the Choson dynasty, which left a deep impression on Korean culture. From the beginning, China has loomed large in the history of Korea, from the earliest times when the tribes that would eventually make up the Korean nation roamed the vast plains of Manchuria and against whom Korea would soon define itself. Japan, too, has played an important role in Korean history, particularly in the 20th century; Kim tells this story as well, including the conflicts that led to the current divided state. The first detailed overview of Korean history in nearly a quarter century, this volume will enlighten a new generation of students eager to understand this contested region of Asia.

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Download or read book A Concise History of Modern Korea written by Michael J. Seth and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political issues it has faced since being catapulted into the wider world at the end of the nineteenth century. Placing this formerly insular society in a global context, Michael J. Seth describes how this ancient, culturally and ethnically homogeneous society first fell victim to Japanese imperialist expansionism, and then was arbitrarily divided in half after World War II. Seth traces the postwar paths of the two Koreas with different political and social systems and different geopolitical orientations as they evolved into sharply contrasting societies. South Korea, after an unpromising start, became one of the few postcolonial developing states to enter the ranks of the first world, with a globally competitive economy, a democratic political system, and a cosmopolitan and dynamic culture. By contrast, North Korea became one of the world's most totalitarian and isolated societies, a nuclear power with an impoverished and famine-stricken population. Considering the radically different and historically unprecedented trajectories of the two Koreas, Seth assesses the insights they offer for understanding not only modern Korea but the broader perspective of world history."

Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Art of South and Southeast Asia written by Steven Kossak and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2001 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents works of art selected from the South and Southeast Asian and Islamic collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, lessons plans, and classroom activities.

Download or read book A New History of Korea written by Ki-baik Lee and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English-language history of Korea to appear in more than a decade, this translation offers Western readers a distillation of the latest and best scholarship on Korean history and culture from the earliest times to the student revolution of 1960. The most widely read and respected general history, A New History of Korea (Han’guksa sillon) was first published in 1961 and has undergone two major revisions and updatings. Translated twice into Japanese and currently being translated into Chinese as well, Ki-baik Lee’s work presents a new periodization of his country’s history, based on a fresh analysis of the changing composition of the leadership elite. The book is noteworthy, too, for its full and integrated discussion of major currents in Korea’s cultural history. The translation, three years in preparation, has been done by specialists in the field.

Download or read book Sticks Stones and Broken Bones written by Rick J. Schulting and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for violent injuries on human skeletons of the Neolithic period in Europe, ranging from 6700 to 2000 BC, and provides an invaluable baseline for comparisons with both earlier and later periods.

Download or read book Ancient Chinese Warfare written by Ralph D. Sawyer and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of China is a history of warfare. Rarely in its 3,000-year existence has the country not been beset by war, rebellion, or raids. Warfare was a primary source of innovation, social evolution, and material progress in the Legendary Era, Hsia dynasty, and Shang dynasty -- indeed, war was the force that formed the first cohesive Chinese empire, setting China on a trajectory of state building and aggressive activity that continues to this day. In Ancient Chinese Warfare, a preeminent expert on Chinese military history uses recently recovered documents and archaeological findings to construct a comprehensive guide to the developing technologies, strategies, and logistics of ancient Chinese militarism. The result is a definitive look at the tools and methods that won wars and shaped culture in ancient China.

Download or read book Library Media Connection written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A History of the Korean Language written by Ki-Moon Lee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Korean Language is the first book on the subject ever published in English. It traces the origin, formation, and various historical stages through which the language has passed, from Old Korean through to the present day. Each chapter begins with an account of the historical and cultural background. A comprehensive list of the literature of each period is then provided and the textual record described, along with the script or scripts used to write it. Finally, each stage of the language is analyzed, offering new details supplementing what is known about its phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexicon. The extraordinary alphabetic materials of the 15th and 16th centuries are given special attention, and are used to shed light on earlier, pre-alphabetic periods.