석재와 거리에 따른 영국 전기구석기 유물의 고찰

• 영문명: A Study of Lithic Variation from Selected Sites in England with the Relationship of the Acquisition Distance
• 발행기관: 한국상고사학회
• 저자명: 이형우(Lee, Hyung-Woo)
• 간행물 정보: 『한국상고사학보』제34호, 21~52쪽, 전체 32쪽
• 주제분류: 인문학 > 역사학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2001.05.01

국문 초록

구석기 시대의 석기의 다양성을 어떻게 이해할 것인가에 대한 의문이 이 글의 중심 문제이다. 구석기 시대의 고고학적 자료가 그 시대 인류의 행위의 결과물이라는 절대명제 하에서 그 행위를 제한하고 그리고 제한된 범위 하에서 어떠한 행위가 나타나는지를 고고학적 증거를 통해서 파악하려 한다. 인류행위를 제한하는 요소를 이 글에서는 일반적 요소와 특수적 요소로 설명하고 있다. 그리고 다양한 행위의 동인들(일명 인류의 의도적 행위들) 중에서 인류의 경제적 행위에 중점을 두고 설명하고 있다. 그러한 경제적 행위를 검증하기 위해서 석재산지와 유적지와의 공간적 관계, 운영된 석재의 분석, 석기의 행태적 기술적 변이성에 대한 고찰 그리고 통계적 분석 방법들이 이용되었다. 이러한 조사들을 통해서 구석기 시대 인류의 다양한 경제적 문화적 사회적 기능적 행위 중의 하나로서 경제적 행위 역시 존재하였고, 무엇보다도, 그러한 행위가 고고학적 자료로서 이해되고 복원될 수 있다는 것을 이 글에서는 밝히고 있다.

영문 초록

Like all the human-made artefacts, the stone artefacts are also the results of various human behaviour. And they are many characteristic features in many aspects. The similarities and dissimilarities with other artefacts vary, depending on what sort of aspects we consider. The aim of this paper is to identify at general level aspects of human behaviour relevant to the specific time and space in which the tools from the study area were made. It might help us to understand their nature, if we are aware how humans coped with the constrained circumstances at that time and place. We might hope to find behavioural strategies reflected in the nature of the artefacts, because the artefacts are the result of practical human responses to the challenging circumstances of contemporary life. Since such phenomena are often coded, plain typological classification can often do no more than describe past human behaviour, as opposed to explaining it. It is certainly fair to describe the behaviour of the Lower Palaeolithic people as onstrained' in a general sense: as we saw in the previous chapter, they did have a general limitation, because their accumulated acquired information was limited. But human behaviour cannot be strictly all the same for all Lower Palaeolithic people, since the particular contexts ar different. Therefore, if we seek to understand more, the reason for making artefacts in any specific context must be studies in detail: important specific factors may apply to any given temporal and geological context. Even though different groups of people have broadly the same degree of adaptation to their physical environment, their responses and the resulting archaeological evidence should be different, depending on the particular local circumstances affecting them, and the actual difference in such things as: food resources, climate, geological conditions, social complexity, communications, etc. Palaeolithic lithic assemblages will also be different in some senses. Even though two archaeological sites may represent exactly the same Acheulian tradition, such things as the proportion of core tools to flake tools, and overall tool size, may vary, particularly in relation to the distance of any site from its raw material sources. The effect of distance from the lithic source will always be important (J. Ericson 1984). For example, a longer distance form the source would require a more economical altitude to tool manufacture, than one would find amongst people living closer to it, both groups being at the same level of society. Economical behaviour can be regarded as one of the most important aspects of human intentional behaviour (R. Torrence 1989), and any human group economical concept will be reflected in the nature of its artefacts. In order to understand such local dynamics, detailed lithic analysis is required; lithic metrical analysis and statistical analysis are necessary properly to compare sets of lithic data. These Processes simply make visual impressions of the artefacts convert into quantified data, so that it becomes possible objectively to test hypotheses arising from consideration of various local dynamics, against the actual quantified data.

목차

요약

Ⅰ. 서론

Ⅱ. 사고적 접근

Ⅲ. 석재 거리에 따른 구석기 유물의 상이성

Ⅳ. 결론

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영문초록