Paddy rice, aggregation, and the development of Mumun social organization in Ulsan, southeastern Korea

IF 0.9 2区历史学 0 ARCHAEOLOGY

Archaeological Research in Asia Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.ara.2023.100447

Minkoo Kim , Jinwoo Lee , Yoojin Hyung , Hayeong Shin , Sunwook Kim , Subin Chae

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Abstract

Previous research has reported that Mumun settlements (ca. 1500–300 BCE) in southeastern Korea consisted of multiple house clusters that were basal social units. This study evaluates this claim by inspecting intra-settlement dwelling distribution in sites with more than 40 pithouses. Ripley's K-function and the density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise (DBSCAN) method were implemented to identify pithouse clusters at different spatial scales. Our examination shows that the settlements contained small, primary clusters of ca. 10–40 people, which merged into larger, secondary clusters of fewer than 60 people. Large settlements consisted of multiple secondary clusters. We infer that people aggregated to meet the labor demand of paddy rice cultivation, while simultaneously managing the scalar stress by dividing communities into smaller subgroups. This study suggests that emergent social complexity during the Mumun period relied on factional competition and cooperation and was dependent on the effective integration of discrete social units.

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稻田、聚集与蔚山武门社会组织的发展

先前的研究报告称，朝鲜东南部的穆蒙定居点（约公元前1500年至300年）由多个房屋群组成，这些房屋群是基本的社会单元。这项研究通过检查拥有40多个髓室的定居点内住宅分布来评估这一说法。实现了Ripley的K函数和基于密度的带噪声应用空间聚类（DBSCAN）方法来识别不同空间尺度上的髓室聚类。我们的研究表明，定居点包含约10-40人的小型初级集群，这些集群合并为不到60人的大型次级集群。大型定居点由多个次级集群组成。我们推断，人们聚集在一起是为了满足水稻种植的劳动力需求，同时通过将社区划分为更小的小组来管理标量压力。本研究表明，穆蒙时期涌现的社会复杂性依赖于派系的竞争与合作，并依赖于离散社会单元的有效整合。

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Archaeological Research in Asia ARCHAEOLOGY-

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期刊介绍： Archaeological Research in Asia presents high quality scholarly research conducted in between the Bosporus and the Pacific on a broad range of archaeological subjects of importance to audiences across Asia and around the world. The journal covers the traditional components of archaeology: placing events and patterns in time and space; analysis of past lifeways; and explanations for cultural processes and change. To this end, the publication will highlight theoretical and methodological advances in studying the past, present new data, and detail patterns that reshape our understanding of it. Archaeological Research in Asia publishes work on the full temporal range of archaeological inquiry from the earliest human presence in Asia with a special emphasis on time periods under-represented in other venues. Journal contributions are of three kinds: articles, case reports and short communications. Full length articles should present synthetic treatments, novel analyses, or theoretical approaches to unresolved issues. Case reports present basic data on subjects that are of broad interest because they represent key sites, sequences, and subjects that figure prominently, or should figure prominently, in how scholars both inside and outside Asia understand the archaeology of cultural and biological change through time. Short communications present new findings (e.g., radiocarbon dates) that are important to the extent that they reaffirm or change the way scholars in Asia and around the world think about Asian cultural or biological history.