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http://dx.doi.org/10.12654/JCS.2014.30.2.09

Interdisciplinary Study on Bronze Age Artifacts in Midwestern Korea: Material Characteristics and Provenance Presumption for Stone Artifacts of the Sinsongri Site in Seosan  

Lee, Chan Hee (Department of Cultural Heritage Conservation Sciences, Kongju National University)
Kim, Ran Hee (Department of Cultural Heritage Conservation Sciences, Kongju National University)
Eo, Eon Il (Department of Cultural Heritage Conservation Sciences, Kongju National University)
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Journal of Conservation Science / v.30, no.2, 2014 , pp. 205-217 More about this Journal
Abstract
The stone artifacts in Bronze age from the Sinsongri sites in Seosan, Korea were studied on material characteristics and provenance presumptions. The use and rock names of the artifacts are a stone before processing, two semifinished stone arrowheads and a grinding stone plate by slates. In addition, there is semifinished stone arrowhead by andesitic rocks. The slate could be observed easily around the site, and the andesitic rock could be confirmed typical occurrences of the all kinds of rocks around the Kanwoldo and Hwangdori, Anmyun area above 10km from the site. As a result of analysis which is comparing between stone artifacts and same kinds of raw material rocks, the stone artifacts made by slates have similar lithology and geochemical characteristics however, the stone artifacts made by andesitic rocks are found a some different part of characteristics to the same kind of raw material rocks. Comparing of major, rare earth, compatible and incompatible elements about stones artifacts made by slates and by the same kinds of raw material rocks have same geochemical patterns. However stone artifacts made by andesites and the raw material rocks are confirmed some differences of geochemistry. Therefore the slate stone artifacts in Sinsongri site suggest that these are domestic-type which are made of the rocks around the site, and it was understood that the andesitic stone artifacts are foreign-type which need to get more geological survey and study about different volcanic artifacts of the site around the area.
Keywords
Stone artifacts; Provenance presumption; Sinsongri site; Bronze age; Slate; Andesitic rock;
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