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Typology of Gaya Pottery

Park, Kwang Choon 1

1동아대학교

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ABSTRACT

Representative Gaya pottery style are divided into two categories; East and West types of Nakdong River and DaeGaya types. The word type had been used since 1960 when Kim Won-ryong had been named East and West types of Nakdong River. However, there were few researches on the naming issue after the settlement of the term 'type'. This is caused by lack of the perception by archaeologist including myself who study the meaning of the typology under the category of classification. Therefore archaeologists misused the meaning of the form(index of the usage), type and style(index of time and place) and this brought more difficulties to understand the meaning of the 'type'. First of all, the meaning of the 'type' will be discussed and then this work will highlight other problems to interpret the definition of two Gaya pottery types aforementioned. As a result, the definition given by Kim Won-ryong had been proved to miss the meaning of 'type'. Furthermore, compared to the Eastern type(Silla pottery), Western type(Gaya pottery) had been hold several problematic issues. It is same to the DaeGaya typology and also this typology could not explain the pottery found from the tombs of Hapcheon, Namwon, Hamyang, Hadong and Yeosu. Therefore this work mainly discussed the long-necked jar setting with the dish with a lid. Newly adopted types are usually pointed around Seomjin-River and they are primarily set with more than two different types. This work therefore mainly highlights new Gaya type pottery compared to Silla pottery and also insists the importance of each different locality. Among the historical archaeology, the record of the history should not be ignored. However, it should not be trusted by all means.

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