Dolmens in Guam-ri, Buan
DatedEst. 1500 BCE–300 CE
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Overview
About this site
Overview
The dolmens in Guam-ri are a group of Bronze Age dolmens in Buan County, South Korea (Korean: 부안 구암리 지석묘군; Hanja: 扶安龜岩里支石墓群). On January 21, 1963, they were designated a Historic Site of South Korea.
There were originally 13, but only 10 remain.
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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.
Article
Dolmens in Guam-ri, Buan
DatingSources for this section
- Wikipedia (English): Dolmens in Guam-ri, BuanCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (English): Dolmens in Guam-ri, BuanCC BY-SA 4.0
The catalogue gives a typological estimate of 1500 BCE to 300 CE for the group.
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.
ContextSources for this section
- Wikipedia (English): Dolmens in Guam-ri, BuanCC BY-SA 4.0
Sources for this section
- Wikipedia (English): Dolmens in Guam-ri, BuanCC BY-SA 4.0
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.
The great stones marked the graves of the ruling elite. Pottery, comma-shaped jewels, bronzes and stone tools have been excavated from dolmens in Korea.
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
From the article
Dated moments in the story
- 1963
On January 21, 1963, they were designated a Historic Site of South Korea.
Source
See it in 3D
An interpretive reconstruction of the monument, standing on the real ground at its exact point, under the sun for that place and season. Drag to look around it.
The reconstruction is ours, not a survey: it shows what a monument of this type looks like, at the size the record gives for this one.
Lore
Evidence & Lore
What the sources actually support — and, kept apart, what has been claimed.
What the evidence supports
Dates
Est. 1500 BCE–300 CEHow this date was established: Type comparisonTypological estimate, not a date for this site: a dolmen in the Korean peninsula is normally dated between 1500 BCE and 300 CE (Atlas typological table).Source for this date
Measured facts
- Location
- Guam-ri, Buan County, South KoreaSource: Location
- Heritage designation
- Historic Site of South KoreaSource: Heritage designation
- Designation date
- January 21, 1963Source: Designation date
- Original number of dolmens
- 13Source: Original number of dolmens
- Number remaining
- 10Source: Number remaining
Where it stands
South Korea
The pin marks the monument itself — its exact point.
- Coordinates
- 35°42′30″ N, 126°39′14″ EFor a GPS or map app: 35.70836, 126.65375
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.
Jiseok Tombs in Jukrim-ri, Gochang700–300 BCE
Gochang Dolmen Site1000–1 BCE- DolmenBuyeo Oryang-ri Dolmen700–300 BCE
- Megalithic tombBuyeo Gwideok-ri Dolmen700–300 BCE
- Megalithic tombChunghwa Hyeonmiri Dolmen700–300 BCE
- Megalithic tombChunghwa Jiseok-ri Dolmen700–300 BCE
- Megalithic tombBuyeo Naegok-ri Dolmen700–300 BCE
- Megalithic tombJangam Bukgori Dolmen700–300 BCE
Sources
Every record behind this page, with the link it came from.
3 sources behind this page
- 01Wikidata Q19940026wikidata.org
- 02Wikipedia (en)en.wikipedia.org
- 03Wikipedia: Dolmens in Guam-ri, Buanen.wikipedia.org
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Around this place
The ten nearest sites, by compass
- Jiseok Tombs in Jukrim-ri, Gochang29 km S
- Gochang Dolmen Site30 km S
- Buyeo Oryang-ri Dolmen43 km N
- Buyeo Gwideok-ri Dolmen44 km N
- Chunghwa Hyeonmiri Dolmen45 km N
- Chunghwa Jiseok-ri Dolmen48 km N
- Buyeo Naegok-ri Dolmen49 km N
- Jangam Bukgori Dolmen49 km N
- Buyeo Anseori Dolmen49 km NW
- Buyeo Songam-ri Dolmen Group49 km N
Credit
Text, licence and sources
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