14C연대 분석을 통해 본 청동기시대 전기 편년 시론 = Radiocarbon Dating and Early Bronze Age Chronology Revisited

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

While radiocarbon dates in Korean archaeology were heavily criticized during the 1990s, more researchers now began to utilize available absolute dates to construct chronology for the Bronze Age. Nevertheless, researchers still do not agree over the reliability of specific radiocarbon dates that were obtained from different features and contexts along with variable range of standard deviations. Many problems originate from different standards and processes used to deal with the outliers and multiple dates obtained from the same feature. The present study reconsiders a large set of radiocarbon dates for the early Bronze Age using statistical methods to assess the reliability of dates, compare multiple samples and adopt and determine relevant dates. Based on the evaluated radiocarbon dates, we attempt to analyze spatial and temporal distributions of different pottery types, or cultural complexes, which reveals an abrupt change of gradient during the period between 2950 BP and 2830 BP in which coexisting pottery types or complexes underwent significant cultural change.