Cheongju Hakpyeong-ri Dolmen
DatedEst. 700–300 BCE
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Overview
About this site
Overview
Cheongju Hakpyeong-ri Dolmen is a megalithic tomb in Cheongju, South Korea. It lies at 36.5086° N, 127.4914° E.
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Where it sits in time
The site's dated range, placed against world reference points.
The scale is logarithmic: each step to the left is about ten times older than the last.
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Cheongju Hakpyeong-ri Dolmen
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The Korean Peninsula has more dolmens than anywhere else: about 40,000 are found throughout the peninsula, which is approximately 40 percent of the world's total. In Korean they are called goindol, "propped stone", and they were built from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age, during the Mumun pottery period of about 1500 to 300 BCE. They are distributed mainly along the west coast and on large rivers from the Liaodong Peninsula in China to Jeollanam-do. In North Korea they are concentrated around the Taedong and Jaeryeong rivers; in South Korea they are dense in river basins such as the Han and Nakdong and in the west coast area. The regional background, “Korean dolmens (goindol)”, is given below.
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No scientific date has been published for this site. Monuments of this type in South Korea are generally dated 700 BCE to 300 BCE; the site itself may fall inside or outside that range.
Korean dolmens have been dated to the seventh century BCE in places such as Gochang and the practice ended around the third century BCE.
Setting
2 other recorded monuments lie within 10 km (2 within 1 km, 2 within 5 km), 2 of them of the same type. In Cheongju, South Korea, 3 of the 3 recorded monuments are of this type.
The nearest recorded monuments are Cheongju Gahori Dolmen (0.0 km north, megalithic tomb); Cheongju Susan-ri Dolmen (0.0 km north, megalithic tomb); Jeungpyeong Songjeong-ri Dolmen (11.6 km west, megalithic tomb); Birae-dong Dolmen Group (16.2 km south, megalithic tomb).
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Heritage status: ruine de Cheongju.
Tradition and region
About this kind of monument
Korean dolmens (goindol)
The Korean Peninsula has more dolmens than anywhere else: about 40,000 are found throughout the peninsula, which is approximately 40 percent of the world's total. In Korean they are called goindol, "propped stone", and they were built from the Bronze Age to the early Iron Age, during the Mumun pottery period of about 1500 to 300 BCE. They are distributed mainly along the west coast and on large rivers from the Liaodong Peninsula in China to Jeollanam-do. In North Korea they are concentrated around the Taedong and Jaeryeong rivers; in South Korea they are dense in river basins such as the Han and Nakdong and in the west coast area.
The great stones marked the graves of the ruling elite. Pottery, comma-shaped jewels, bronzes and stone tools have been excavated from the dolmens, and the stones show how rock was quarried, transported and used to build them. In 2000 UNESCO designated the Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites a World Heritage Site: Jukrim-ri and Dosan-ri at Gochang, Hyosan-ri and Daesin-ri at Hwasun, and Bujeong-ri, Samgeori and Osang-ri on Ganghwa. Together they hold over 1,000 dolmens, the highest concentrations anywhere in the world.
Dolmens in Korea have been dated to the seventh century BCE at places such as Gochang, and the practice ended around the third century BCE. Excavation at the sites did not begin until 1965. Where the dolmens came from is debated: one theory has the knowledge arriving from Southeast Asia along with rice culture, another from Neolithic peoples north of the peninsula, and a third holds that they arose on the peninsula itself.
When visiting, look for the way the rows follow a river terrace, and compare the table-like dolmens with those where the capstone sits low over the ground.
Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Gochang, Hwasun and Ganghwa Dolmen Sites, Wikipedia: Dolmen, Wikipedia: Mumun pottery period · CC BY-SA 4.0
Lore
Evidence & Lore
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What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 700–300 BCEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypical range for megalithic tombs in South Korea; this site has not been dated itself. Korean dolmens have been dated to the seventh century BCE in places such as Gochang and the practice ended around the third century BCE.Source for this date
Where it stands
South Korea
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 36°30′31″ N, 127°29′29″ EFor a GPS or map app: 36.50861, 127.49139
Access is as our sources describe it; we have not visited the site to check.
Nearby
The closest sites in the Atlas, by straight line.
- Megalithic tombCheongju Gahori Dolmen700–300 BCE
- Megalithic tombCheongju Susan-ri Dolmen700–300 BCE
- Megalithic tombJeungpyeong Songjeong-ri Dolmen700–300 BCE
- Megalithic tombBirae-dong Dolmen Group700–300 BCE
고흥류씨 정려각 및 비- Megalithic tombNaesan-ri Dolmen700–300 BCE
Okcheon Taenan-ri Dolmen700–300 BCE- Stele명국삼장비
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