「밀양 고례리와 진주 집현유적의 석기 고찰」에 대한 토론문

성춘택 한국구석기학회 2016 한국구석기학회 학술대회 발표집 Vol.2016 No.-

고고학과 물질문화의 기원과 계통 : 비판적 검토

성춘택 한국고고학회 2016 한국고고학전국대회 발표문 Vol.- No.40

중부지방 구석기 고고학의 쟁점과 유적형성과정의 이해

성춘택,김태경 중부고고학회 2019 중부고고학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.2019 No.1

수렵채집사회의 인구구성, 공간구조와 후기 구석기시대에서 신석기시대 초의 인구등락

성춘택 중부고고학회 2021 중부고고학회 학술대회논문집 Vol.2021 No.1

선사시대 수렵채집사회 인구변동의 설명

성춘택 한국고고학회 2021 한국고고학전국대회 발표문 Vol.- No.45

한국 구석기고고학사 시론

성춘택 한국상고사학회 2017 한국상고사학보 Vol.98 No.-

이 글은 한국 구석기고고학의 성과를 비판적으로 회고하고 앞으로 연구 방향을 모색하는 것을 목적으로 쓰였다. 현재 학문의 지평을 이해하는 일은 지금까지 학문이 걸어온 길, 곧 학사에 대한 비판적인 검토로부터 출발해야 한다. 구석기시대 연구는 고고학의 성립과 발전에 중요한 역할을 하였지만, 한국에서는 시대와 자료의 특수성이 지나치게 강조되고 있다. 하지만 학사를 돌아보면 구석기 유적의조사와 연구는 한국고고학의 발달에 큰 역할을 해왔음을 알 수 있다. 일제강점기에도 구석기시대를 인식하고 자료를 조사하기도 했으며, 해방 이후에도 제한적인 조사가 이루어지기도 했다. 굴포리와 석장리 발굴은 바로 이 같은 흐름의 연장선상에 있으며, 이로써 본격적으로 구석기고고학이 시작되었다. 지금까지 전국 각지에서 발굴조사된 유적만 200여 곳이 넘으며, 엄청난 양의 구석기 자료가 쌓였다. 연구자 역시 크게 늘어나 학계의 지평이 넓어졌다. 양적인 성장, 그리고 과학 분석과 편년 연구 등에 많은 진전이 있지만, 몇몇 자료와 주장에 대해서는 꾸준히 회의적인 논지가 제기되기도 했다. 이 같은 비판적 검토 위에서 앞으로 구석기고고학이 학술성을 강화하고, 엄밀한 분류와 분석, 행위 복원, 문화변화 설명 등 다양한접근과 주제를 포괄하여 한국 고고학에 더 크게 기여하였으면 한다. The present essay aims to provide a concise history of Paleolithic archaeology in Korea. While Paleolithic studies have played an essential role in the emergence and development of archaeology during the 19th and 20th centuries, too much emphasis has been placed upon the difference of the Paleolithic material record in comparison with research dealing with the later periods in Korea. Nevertheless, scholars in the early 20th centuries had interest and sufficient knowledge of the Paleolithic, while they tried to collect Paleolithic data. In this vein, we can understand the importance of excavations at Gulpo-ri and Seokjang-ri, which heralded the formal beginning of the Paleolithic research in North and South Korea respectively. Since then, more than 200 sites were formally excavated, while the number of Paleolithic archaeologists increased dramatically. Despite this development, skeptical arguments have been raised against the authenticity of several sites, human skeletons and “arts.” Critical reviews are made on scientific analyses, chronology, and lithic analysis. With the trend of practical synthesis in modern archaeology, future research may embrace various approaches including evolutionary explanations, behavioral and cultural processes and postprocessual narratives.

선사 수렵채집사회의 인구구성과 변동: 인구추산을 위한 서론

성춘택 한국고고학회 2023 전국역사학대회 Vol.- No.66

한국 신석기시대 복합수렵채집사회론 검토

성춘택 한국신석기학회 2023 한국신석기연구 Vol.- No.46

The present essay critically reviews the recent attempt to conceptualize the Neolithic society in Korea as complex hunter-gatherers. While large scale settlements with 20 to 30, and even 60 subterranean houses are well recognized in the Neolithic Korea, many archaeologists still consider that the occupants were mainly hunters and gatherers. The concept of complex hunter-gatherers were originally proposed to denote large village societies with prominent social hierarchies relying on abundant marine resources, and some archaeologists extended its use to prehistory. Aside from the archaeological applicability of the concept itself, the Korean Neolithic archaeological record lacks critical elements of the complex hunter-gatherers. While the discussion and application of the concept in the context of Korean Neolithic have opened the new theoretical landscape, it is true that many burials and associated goods, let alone habitations sites, do not suggest the development of social hierarchies. The characteristics of burial goods are consistent with sexual differences which is widely observable with most hunter-gatherers societies. Furthermore, many Korean Neolithic sites yielded evidence of broomcorn and foxtail millet domestication, which most archaeologists try to explain in the context of complementary subsistence activities still dominated by hunting and gathering. The existence of material evidence of plant domestication strongly suggests that the Neolithic people were not ‘typical’ hunter-gatherers, which begs further discussions of the role of domestication in the Neolithic and its implications to the development of settled village lives. While the concept of the complex hunter-gatherers was coined to embrace cases that do not fit into the traditional hunter-gatherer society, it has become another stereotype that does not allow wide range of variability in prehistoric societies. Rather, we need to pay more attention to the role of mixed economy or horticulture and dynamics of orderly egalitarian societies in the Neolithic Korea.

제주 고산리 돌화살촉의 분류와 계통수 분석

성춘택,성연빈,정동희 한국상고사학회 2022 한국상고사학보 Vol.116 No.116

Phylogenetic analyses have been successfully applied to establishing lineages and trajectories of changes of archaeological materials. The present study attempts to apply principles and techniques of phylogenetics to archaeology and produce phylogenetic trees of a large collection of chipped stone arrowheads from Gosan-ri, Jeju. Recent excavations provided new lights on human occupations at Gosan-ri: radiocarbon dates and artifacts suggest that the site was formed by repeated visits of hunter-gatherers spanning almost 5000 years of the Neolithic. More than 1300 arrowheads, or points, were collected and they were made by the same chipped stone technology based on essentially same hunting and gathering way of subsistence economy with no evidence of external migration or notable diffusion. This is why we believe that a phylogenetic tree can adequately depict the persistence and change of artifact lineages. Based on paradigmatic classification using attributes and attribute states such as maximum length, morphology of haft elements, and angle of base and stem, we use PAUP* to produce workable phylogenetic trees of stone arrowhead classes. The result shows that stemmed arrowheads and those with no stem are the two most prominent classes that were likely diverged early and many varieties evolved subsequently in the branches. We also discuss the issue of homology and analogy (homoplasy) and how to distinguish the two from archaeological situations. We expect that the present endeavor will encourage future studies of reconstructing and discussing lineages based on archaeological cases by applying phylogenetic analysis.

한국 중기구석기론의 비판적 검토

성춘택 한국고고학회 2002 한국고고학보 Vol.46 No.-

Although the last two decades witnessed a rapid increase in quantity of archaeological sites and artifacts, one could not say that our knowledge of the Paleolithic in Korea has been enhanced as much. Paleolithic studies in Korea face significant challenges in various areas. Many concepts, mostly originated from European Paleolithic studies, are used without suitable discussion of applicability. While being widely used among Paleolithic archaeologists, the relevance of the Middle Paleolithic in Korea has not been seriously discussed. For many Korean archaeologists, the Middle Paleolithic is taken just for a chronological scale, largely parallel to that of European Middle Paleolithic, without cultural connotations. The 'Korean Middle Paleolithic' is still need to be defined, because dates of many important sites are yet to be dated securely and there is few, if any, technological and cultural features proper to the period.