가야사에서 복천동고분군의 위상과 역할 = The status and role of the Bokcheondong Tombs in Gaya History

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The Bokcheondong Tombs located alongside Suyeong Bay was the centre of the Former Gaya with the Daesungdong Tombs of Gimhae and it was the cemetery of the leader. However, it has been undervalued under the shadow of Gimhae group. After the conquest of Gogurye, it played a crucial role in developing new culture in Yeongnam area in the first of the 5th century. With emerging the culture of the Silla nobility in the latter of the 5th century, although it served as a foundation for its growing, but it was upstaged by Silla, and sometimes it was misunderstood that the Bokcheondong Tombs was already incorporated into Silla.
This paper was projected to correct this wrong perception. Based on my previous studies, it was revalued that the real status of Bokcheondong Tombs and its influence and role in developing Gaya and Silla.
As a result, although holding a common religious ceremony, but the buried leaders in Bokcheondong Tombs were different from them of Daesungdong Tombs in the 4th century. The leaders of Daesungdong Tombs had got strong foreign character, but the group of Bokcheondong Tombs was stable group based on the native society. These two group were united into Former Gaya, community and difference coexisted in two groups.
In the 5th century (the transition period and the Latter Gaya), the group of Bokcheondong Tombs adapted to the social change and created new type of tomb and artifact. It influenced to the formation of the culture of Latter Gaya and Silla as well as the formation of the culture of middle Gohun Period in Japan. In the latter of the 5th century, it lost its strength but played a role as a part of Gaya with the group of Yeonsandong Group.