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Study on the Iron Production Process through the Analysis of By-Products Found at Jiǔdiàn Iron Production Site, China

  • Bae, Chae Rin;Cho, Nam Chul;Jo, Young Hoon;Chen, Jianli
    • Journal of Conservation Science
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.273-281
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    • 2018
  • $Ji{\check{u}}di{\grave{a}}n$ iron production site in China is a relic smelting site, which in the past produced pig iron. In this study, scientific analysis of the smelting furnace and collected slag was conducted to reveal some aspects of the ancient Chinese smelting technique. A 3D model of the smelting furnace showed a narrow lower part and an upper section which increased in diameter upwards. Although the smelting furnace relic does not include the upper part and its complete shape cannot be predicted, the remaining part suggests that the furnace had a larger diameter in the central part compared to the upper and lower parts. Most of the collected slag was completely vitrified. Long prismatic fayalite was observed in the matrix of some samples. The iron particles contained phosphorus, which could not be discharged during smelting work. In addition, as the $CaO/SiO_2$ ratio was 0.42 or lower in the results of the content analysis, no CaO slag former had been added. However, the ratio of $CaO/SiO_2$ to $Al_2O_3/SiO_2$ did not have a constant trend. This needs to be investigated in a further study.

Manufacturing Techniques of Ancient Metal Buddha Statues from Archaeological Sites in Bagan, Myanmar

  • Lee, Jae Sung;Win, Yee Yee;Lee, Bonnie;Yu, Jae Eun
    • Journal of Conservation Science
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.309-316
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    • 2019
  • This study intends to identify manufacturing techniques, including casting and alloy composition, of nine metal Buddha statues excavated from archaeological sites in Bagan, Myanmar. Two Buddha statues from Pyu city state(2nd to 9th century) contain Cu-Sn alloy(including <1 wt% Fe), with different relatively high percentages of Sn(16 wt% and 25 wt%) identified from each Buddha statue, and no Pb detected. Five Buddha statues from the Bagan dynasty contain various alloy ratios of Cu-Sn(including <1 wt% Pb), Cu-Sn-Pb, and Cu-Sn-Zn-Pb. All Buddha statues appear to be fabricated by casting, as there is no evidence of other heat treatments. The silver Buddha statue manufactured in the 18th century includes >1% Cu besides silver with no additional metallic components identified. The bronze Buddha statue manufactured in the Konbaung dynasty(18th century) is of Cu-Sn-Pb alloy. The Buddha statues of Pyu was alloy of Cu-Sn without Pb including ahigh percentage of The Buddha statues of both the Bagan and Konbaung dynasties are comprised of ternary Cu-Sn-Pb alloys, with a heterogeneous distribution of lead and tin. Some of Buddha statues of the Bagan dynasty have similar alloy ratios as those of Pyu, suggesting that similar manufacturing techniques were used.

A Study of Korean Skull Base Height - with Special Reference to the MIA Sample during the Korean War and the Late Chosun Sample - (한국인 머리뼈 밑면 높이 연구 - 조선후기인골(17-18세기)과 6.25전사자를 중심으로 -)

  • Park, Sun-Joo
    • The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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    • v.21 no.1
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    • pp.37-45
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    • 2007
  • Skull base height increases significantly with better nutrition and health conditions. With coordinate caliper or by subtraction, skull base height is easily measured. To examine nutrition and health condition of MIA(missing in action) during the Korean War and people who lived during the 17-18 centry of the Late Chosun. This study is focused on the change of skull base height through time as seen in comparing 83 MIA cranium and 12 17-18 centry cranium of Korea with 219 modern American middle class adult cranium(Terry Collection and forensic skeleton). To sum up, nutritional condition of MIA is not significantly changed, as seen in comparing with nutritional condition of 17-18 century people.

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Consideration of Jolheon Jo Taek-seung(拙軒 曺澤承, 1841-1907)'s portrait (졸헌(拙軒) 조택승(曺澤承)(1841-1907) 초상화(肖像畵) 고찰(考察))

  • Lee, Eun-ha
    • Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.31-38
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    • 2012
  • Jo Taek-seung(曺澤承, 1841-1907), who devoted himself to medical science mostly living in Haenam, and his son Jo Byeong-hu(曺秉侯, 1869-?) are significant in the history of Korean oriental medicine. The medical science of Jo Taek-seung appointed as Jusa(主事) of Hyeminwon(惠民院) in 1902 was handed down to his only son Jo Byeong-hu, who succeeded to his father's medicine and polished up the medicine, and recorded the results "Sanghangyeongheombangyochwal(傷寒經驗方要撮)" in 1933. Jo Taek-seung's portrait has been handed down to Jo Taek-seung's descendents' house in Munane-ri, Haeman. Not only does Jo Taek-seung's portraits well present the features of portrait mode of Joseon Dynasty period in the 19th century in their front view, exposure of two hands, expressive mode, background articles, etc, but also praises, poems, etc. giving information on manufacture intent, etc. to give prominence to the authors recorded by Jo Taek-seung, time of manufacture and position of medical official appears in one screen. In this paper, through disaster-removing poetic sentence showed in Jo Taek-seun'sg portraits, it was found that the author of the portrait is Choi Byeong-uk who worked mostly staying in Seoul and the present portrait was the one re-painted in 1907 by revising the portrait painted in 1894 when Jo Taek-seung was 54 years old, after Jo Taek-seung died. With regard to revised portion, presuming through records on the picture and comparative analysis of mode with portraits of doctors in the 20th century, it seems that the clothing of Confucian scholars in the first version was revised into the clothing of medical officials showing the position of Jo Taek-seung who took office as Jusa of Hyeminwon at the time of re-painting the portrait. Jo Taek-seung's portrait not only becomes important materials in the oriental medicine and historical world in the aspect of manufacture process, mode, etc. of Korean portraits including an aspect of medical official's portraits, but has significant meaning from the aspect of fine art history or clothing history.

Provenance Estimation on the Yeoncheon Samgeori Obsidian Artifacts (연천 삼거리 유적지 흑요석제 석기에 대한 산지 추정)

  • Yi, Seonbok;Jwa, Yong-Joo;Jin, Mi-Eun;Kil, Youngwoo
    • The Journal of the Petrological Society of Korea
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.299-306
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    • 2019
  • We estimated the provenance of the obsidian artifacts from Samgeori site at Yeoncheon, one of the prehistoric sites in South Korea. Pyroxene microlites are of hedenbergite to augite compositions, and intergrown and/or overgrown with Fe-oxides showing poikilitic texture. Major oxides contents for the matrix of the obsidian artifacts exhibit a narrow compositional range, especially SiO2 contents being 73.0~75.5 wt.% of acidic rhyolitic composition. Also, rare earth element (REE) contents are relatively constant in the obsidian artifacts, and the chondrite-normalized REE patterns show a strong Eu negative anomaly. These mineralogical and geochemical features of the Samgeori obsidian artifacts were compared with those from both the Baekdusan obsidians and Japanese Kyushu obsidians which have been thought to be two major obsidian provenances around South Korea. It is suggested that the Samgeori obsidian artifacts were possibly originated from the Baekdusan obsidians.

From Representational Geography to Non-Representational Geography: Paradigm Shifts of Landscape Studies in Anglophone Cultural and Historical Geography (경관지리학에서 경치지리학(景致地理學)으로: 영미권 문화역사지리학 경관연구 패러다임의 전환)

  • Song, Wonseob
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.50 no.3
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    • pp.305-323
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    • 2015
  • The main purpose of this paper is to explore the paradigm shifts of landscape studies in Anglophone cultural and historical geography. By analyzing the work of the Berkley School in the 1950s and 1960s, the advance of humanistic geography in the 1970s, the revival of cultural geography in the 1980s ("new cultural geography"), and the recent development of non-representational geography, this paper demonstrates that the paradigms of landscape studies in Anglophone cultural and historical geography have been changed. By giving buoyancy to the concept of 'Affect'-a kind of 'spatio-bodily-magnetic relation'-as an essence of non-representational geography, I provide an easy way for understanding the implications of non-representational geography. In addition to this, re-conceptualising Non-Representational Theory (NRT) based non-representational geography as 'Kyung-Chi Jirihak' in Korean lexicon context, it is suggested that what the directions of landscape studies of cultural and historical geography of Korea should be and how it can be set up in the paradigm shifts.

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The review of Aesthetic Eye for Chusa, Kim jeong hee's calligraphy arts- Especially, Focused on the spirituality of literati paintings (추사(秋史) 서예술(書藝術)의 심미안(審美眼) 연구(硏究)- 특(特)히 문인화(文人畵) 정신성(精神性)을 중심(中心)으로)

  • Kwon, Yun Hee
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.6 no.3
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    • pp.283-291
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    • 2020
  • Chusa is a pearl in our cultural history. His unfavorable times and circumstances made him more and more devoted, and through this, his art was able to bloom brilliantly. He was born and raised in a prestigious family, and was able to establish his academic world broadly through the encounter with Ongbanggang and Wanwon, the great masters of the Qing Dynasty culture at the time of the 20s. Particularly, his artistic activities in the area where he lived in exile allowed him to establish Chusache. He also showed the essence of his literary spirit as a picture of Sehando. Through numerous letters, he can also examine his culture, art, and thought. Furthermore, based on the archaeology of the Qing Dynasty, you can also examine the thoughts and philosophies of the real world. This article intends to examine and review the Aesthetic Sense of Chusa's literary art in terms of mentality through Sehando·Bujakrando. This is because it is judged to be an aesthetic sense that is the essence of Chusa art.

Archaeological Interpretation for Wolseong Fortress in Gyeongju using GPR (GPR을 이용한 경주 월성 지하유구의 고고학적 해석)

  • Oh, Hyun-Dok;Shin, Jong-Woo
    • 한국지구물리탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.08a
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    • pp.180-189
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    • 2004
  • The name of (Ban)wolseong thanks to its having a shape like a half-moon. Wolseong fortress is one of 'Gyeongju Historic Area', world heritage. The Silla kingdom's royal palace previously maintained its capital fortress at the locale of Wolseong. However its real face has been kept in mystery. This study grafts Geophysics on modern Archaeology and approaches with scientific and systematic methods to an excavation plan or archaeological study by means of GPR exploration which can complement archaeological curiosity without destroying Wolseong fortress. The exploration area is $12,000m^2$ in front of Seokbinggo(stone storage for ice). It is only $10\%$ area of Wolseong fortress. As a conclusion, GPR detected 7 of squared buildings($8{\times}8m^2$ size), stone wall, an entrance for the fortress, lots of foundation stones, road(presumptive), and a presumptive pond which size is 35${\~}$40m in diameter.

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The Pursuit of Value and Rationalization of Management of Consumer's Coopertive Association at Kwangju, Korea (안전한 먹거리 지키기와 경영합리화의 사이에서 - 광주 빛고을아이쿱생활협동조합의 사례를 중심으로)

  • Hong, Sung Heup
    • Journal of the Economic Geographical Society of Korea
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.526-538
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    • 2019
  • This study aims to understand history and adaptive strategies of Bitgoul iCOOP Consumer's Coopertive Association(BCCA). BCCA have twofold identity as civil society organization and economic management organization. Going through several ups and downs from the founding up to now date, BCCA has adapted successfully. The numbers of association member have steadily increased and activity areas have extended consistently. Moreover united activity with local civil society have expanded both quantitatively and qualitatively. These success results from store business which stated from 2008. But maintaining successful management conditions, the numbers of association member should increase steadily and staff organization have grown in size. At the results, BCAA have been bureaucratized and recruitment of core staffs is difficult more and more.

The Study on the Trouser Types of the Ancient Tribes - Focusing on the Reliefs of the Achaemenian Period of Persia - (고대 종족들의 바지 유형에 대한 연구 - 페르시아 아케메네스 왕조 부조를 중심으로 -)

  • Yi-Chang, Youngsoo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.62 no.8
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    • pp.81-99
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    • 2012
  • This study aims to find out the trouser types of the ancient tribes after analyzing various types of trousers discovered on the reliefs of the Achaemenian period of Persia. Then use the results of the analysis as basic data for a study on the Korean trousers type during the ancient times. For this, a theoretical background on the ancient tribes is developed by referring to the literature documents of literature, and European archeologists' papers and photo data are collected and analyzed as well. In addition to the above data, the data, which have been collected by researchers through a field study are comparatively analyzed. In terms of width, the trousers of the ancient tribes have been divided into three types: narrow, average and wide. Each type has diverse forms. The trouser types varied depending on the tribes, the regions and the manufacturing dates of the reliefs. The narrow type was popular among Median, Scythian and Kappadokian, while the average type was frequently worn by Bactrian and Sogdian who lived in the highlands in the northeastern part of Iran. Lastly, the wide type was mostly found in the southeast of Iran(Arachosia, Aria and Drangiana). The fact that trousers were discovered together with boots has been useful in guessing the lifestyle of ancient tribes. Also, even within the same tribe, the form of the trousers and how they were worn changed depending on the time period.