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http://dx.doi.org/10.9719/EEG.2020.53.2.197

Firing Conditions and Material Characteristics of Neolithic Potteries from the Goseong Munamri Sites, Korea  

Kim, Su Kyoung (Conservation Science Division, National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage)
Jang, Sungyoon (Conservation Science Center, National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage)
Lee, Chan Hee (Department of Cultural Heritage Conservation Sciences, Kongju National University)
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Economic and Environmental Geology / v.53, no.2, 2020 , pp. 197-212 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was carried out material characteristics and firing conditions for some potteries in early and middle Neolithic period at the Munamri sites, where the first farmland remails were found in Korea. It is divided into six kinds of surface patterns for potteries such as the raised, bamboo tube and red painted (patternless) from the early Neolithic period (BC 4000 to 6000), and the patterns of horizontal herringbone, short slanted lined or lattice and incised thick line in the middle Neolithic period (BC 3000 to 4000), respectively. Based on the color measures, redness and yellowness of potteries were relatively high as condition of oxidation firings, were also observed black cores on the cross section of potteries. The firing temperature is divided into two groups having under 800℃ and 800to 900℃, the difference in patterns of the potteries are not confirmed. As a microtextures, the bamboo tube pattern potteries show the sericitization biotite, the quartz have developed a suture line textures, and altered alkali feldspars are occurred. X-ray diffraction analysis shows that the main minerals contained in potteries are chlorite and amphibole besides quartz, alkali feldspar and biotite. Considering the geology around the Munamri area is the biotite amphibole granite and soil layers within 10km radius are used as the raw materials for the potteries. The raw materials are presumed that the sources from the metamorphic rocks along the water systems through the mountains around the sites on the basis of well developed suture line textured quartz in potteries. Results on normalized geochemical compositions, the potteries by surface patterns are very similar to sources, and it is judged that was made by using the surrounding soils despite the long time difference from the early to middle in the Neolithic period.
Keywords
Munamri sites; Neolithic; pottery; firing temperature; metamorphic rock;
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