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Archaeological study of animal bones excavated from Cheju Kimnyungri cave site (제주 김녕리 궤내기 동굴 유적에서 출토된 뼈유물의 고고학적 연구)

  • Shin, Tae-kyun;Jin, Jae-kwang;Lee, Cha-soo
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.36 no.4
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    • pp.757-761
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    • 1996
  • The animal bone-remains excavated with earthwares at Cheju Kimnyungri cave site were investigated morphologically and osteometrically. The number of bone remains were 1706 pieces by morphological criteria. Based on the classification of bony pieces excavated in the cave site, the important animal species in Cheju island during the early Tamra period (presumably between A.D.0 - A.D. 500) was as follows; wild boar(75%), deer(17%), cattle(6%), and horse in small percentage. The excavated bone remains imply that the major fauna of animal species are composed of three species, including Sus scrofa, Cervus nippon and Bos taurus. These data suggests that the archaeological remains such as bone pieces are good indicators of the fauna animals, and of zoological entity in the island.

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Age Dating and Paleoenvironmental Changes of the Kunang Cave Paleolithic Site

  • Yum, Jong-Kwon;Lee, Yung-Jo;Kim, Jong-Chan;Kim, In-Chul;Kim, Ju-Yong
    • The Korean Journal of Quaternary Research
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.145-148
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    • 2003
  • The Kunang cave paleolithic site is located at Tanyang [$N37^{\circ}2'$, $128^{\circ}21'E$], Chungbuk Province, which is in the Central part of the Korean peninsula. The cave is developed at 312 amsl in a karstic mountainous area. The South Han River flows across this region and other caves can also be found near the river. The site was discovered in 1986 and excavated 3 times by the Chungbuk National University Museum until now. The cave was wellpreserved from modem human activities until the first discovery. The full length of the cave is estimated to be ca. 140 m. However, a spacious part up to 11 m from the entrance has been excavated. Eight lithological units are divided over the vertical profile at a depth of 5 m. Each unit is deposited in ascending order as follow: mud layer (Unit 9), lower complex (Unit 8) which is composed of angular blocks and fragments with a muddy matrix, lower travertine layer (Unit 7; flowstone), middle complex (Unit 6; cultural layer) which is composed of fragments with a muddy matrix, middle travertine layer (Unit 5; flowstone), yellowish muddy layer (Unit 4), upper complex (Unit 3; cultural layer) which has a similar composition to Unit 8. the upper travertine layer (Unit 2; flowstone), and finally surface soil layer (Unit 1). The most abundant vestiges in the cultural layers are the animal bones. They are small fractured pieces and mostly less than 3 cm in length. About 3,800 bone pieces from 25 animal species have been collected so far, 90 percent of them belonging to young deers. Previous archaeological study of these bone pieces shows thatprehistoric people occupied the cavenot for permanent dwelling but for temporary shelter during their seasonal hunting activity. More extensive studies of these bones together with pollen analysis are in progress to reconstruct the paleoenvironment of this cave. Only a single date (12,500 BP) obtained from a U-Th measurement of the upper travertine layer was previously available. In spite of the importance of the cave stratigraphy, there was no detail chronological investigation to establish the depositional process of the cultural layers and to understand the periodic structure of the cave strata, alternating travertine floor and complex layers. We have measured five 14C age dating (38900+/-1000, 36400+/-900, 40600+/-1600, more than 51000 and 52000 14C BP) using Seoul National University 14C AMS facility, conducted systematic process of the collagen extraction from bone fragments samples. From the result, we estimate that sedimentation rate of the cave earth is constant, and that the travertine layers, Unit 2 and Unit 3, was formed during MIS 5a(ca. 80 kBP) and MIS 5c (ca. 100 kBP) respectively. The Kunang Cave site is located at Yochonli of the region of Danyang in the mid-eastern part of Korea. This region is compased of limestones in which many caves were found and the Nam-han river flows meanderingly. The excavations were carried out three times in 1986, 1988, and 1998.

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A Study on the inhabitant of Hoe-ok cave in Wonju (원주(原州) 회옥굴(窟)의 서식생물(棲息生物)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Park, Jong-Beom;Kim, Byoung-Woo
    • Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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    • no.88
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    • pp.7-25
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    • 2008
  • In order to accumulate the basic informations to assess the scientific and natural values of the Hoe-ok Cave located in Mountain Chi-ak, Seong-nam 2 ri, sin-rim myeon, the distribution of the species in the cave were investigated from November 2004 to June 2005. The results are as follows. The species identified in the Hoe-ok Cave were 34 species, 28 family, 18 order, 8 classes. The dominant species were the 14 species(41.2%), 11 family, 7 order in the Class of Insecta. The ecological distribution of the Heo-ok Cave, 8 species(23.5%) of troglobite, 7 species of troglophiles(20.6%), 19 species of trogloxenes(55.9%) were found and the share of the species indigenous to the cave among the population was 44%, and the species which came out of the cave occupied the larger portion among the populations inside the whole cave.

Cave Collembola of South -East Asia (동남아시아의 동굴산 톡토기)

  • 루이·다르방
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.165-174
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    • 1987
  • 동남아시아의 열대지역 동굴에서 톡토기를 채집하기 위해 Luzon(필리핀), 파푸아뉴기니아, Sulawesi(인도네시아), 말라야, 타이랜드에 수차 원정을 실시하였다. Acherontiella, Pseudosinella, Sinella, Oncopodura, Arrhopalites 등 속들이 조사지역의 모든 동굴에서 서식하고 있었다. 그러나 수개 속은 분포상 매우 제한되어 있었다. Troglopedetes는 동남아시아 대륙에서는 현저한 분화상을 보였으나 다른곳에서는 볼 수 없었다. Coecoloba는 파푸아 뉴기니아에서만 관찰될 뿐이고 멀리 떨어져 한국과 일본지역에서 다시 나타나고 있다. 대개의 종들은 토양산 계통으로 현재까지 유존종으로 생각되는 것은 발견되지 않았다.

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Three New of Onychiruidae (Collembola) from a Korea Cave (한국동굴산 어리톡토기과 3 종류)

  • 이병훈;박경화
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.11-20
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    • 1986
  • 동굴산 어리톡토기과 (Onychiuridae)의 3 신종이 강원도 정선군 북면의 " 산호동굴"에서 채집 확인되어 Onychiurus polychaetosus . n.sp., O.longisetosus n.sp 및 O.oblogngatus n.sp.로 명명 기재하였다. 아울러 삼척군 신령굴에서 보고되었던 O.izurruensis 도 재기재 하였다. 강원도 영월군 고씨굴에서 신속으로 보고된 이후 (Yosii, 1966) 그 동안 멸종된 것으로 생각되었던 Gulgastruura reticulosa Yosii , 1966 이 본 동굴 입구에서 다시 발견된 사실도 아울러 보고한다. 아울러 보고한다.

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A New Species of Pholcus (Araneae: Phocidae) from Gosu Cave, Korea (한국 고수동굴산 유령거미과 (거미강: 거미목)의 1신종)

  • Kim, Byung-Woo;Lee, Wonchoel
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.79-85
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    • 2004
  • Pholcus gosuensis sp. novo is described from the entrance zone of Gosu cave, Chungchengbuk-do, Korea. The species is characterized by male palpal organs with three expanded apophyses and developed callosity on procursus, two frontal apophyses of chelicerae and degrading appendix, and sclerotized arches on uterus externus. The species is related to P. crassus Paik 1978 and P. acutulus Paik, 1978 in having identical uncus and embolus but differentiated from those species by the combined characters of large apophyses and heavily sclerotized callosity on procursus, and structure of arches on uterus externus.

Redescription of Canthocamptus morimotoi Miura, a Stygobiontic Harpacticoid Species from Korea, with a Brief Review on C. mirabilis Group

  • Cheon Young Chang
    • Animal cells and systems
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    • v.2 no.4
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    • pp.427-434
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    • 1998
  • Canthocamptus morimotoi Miura, a cave-dwelling harpacticoid species belonging to C. mirabilis species group, is fully redescribed and illustrated on the basis of the material newly collected from the type locality, Simpigul Cave, South Korea. C. morimotoi is the only genuine subterranean species in the C, mirabilis group, and claimed to be a relict species restricted to its type locality. The sexually isomorphic ornamentation of the outer terminal seta on the distal exopodal segment of male leg 4 and the well-developed spines on the disteromedial corner of anal somite are the most significant features differentiating this species from ther members of the mirabilis-group.

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Tomocerid Collembola (Insecta) from Korean Caves Including a New Species (한국 동굴산 가시톡토기과(곤충강)의 분류학적 연구)

  • Kyung -Hwa Park;Byung-Hoon Lee
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.435-445
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    • 1995
  • Five species of Tomoceridae from Korean caves are reviewed , including one speices described as new to science. T. (M.) odongnyeoensis n.sp. belong to the subgenus of new record for Korea. The present study eventually resulted in listing eight species in five subgenera of Korea cave Tomoceridae, and all Collebola from Korean caves nowenumerate 23 species (or subspecies) in nine genera of eight families.

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Four Cyclopoid Species (Copepoda: Cyclopidae) from Limestone Caves and Lava Tube in South Korea

  • Lee, Ji-Min;Kim, Won-Rok;Choi, Yong-Gun;Chang, Cheon-Young
    • Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.155-167
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    • 2007
  • As a result of the faunistic study on the subterranean cyclopoid copepods, four species of three genera in the family Cyclopidae are reported from nine limestone caves and a lava tube in South Korea: Megacyclops magnus (Marsh, 1920), Acanthocyclops orientalis Borutzky, 1966, A, robustus (Sars, 1863) and Diacyclops suoensis Ito, 1956, all of them new to Korean fauna. This paper deals with the taxonomic accounts and illustrations of the four species with the redescription of A. orientalis. This is the first taxonomic study on the cave-dwelling cyclopoid copepods from Korea.

Radiological assessment of pectus excavatum in a Pekingese dog

  • Cho, Sung-Jin;Hong, Sun-Hwa;Chung, Yung-Ho;Kim, Ok-Jin
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.251-254
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    • 2012
  • Pectus excavatum (PE) is a ventral chest wall deformity, also known as funnel chest, sunken chest, chondrosternal depression or koilosternia. The 4 months old, 1.3 kg intact-female Pekingese dog was evaluated for acute semicoma and convulsion. The client reported that this patient have had chronic loss of appetite, intermittent dyspnea and palpable sunken breast. The other littermates did not show any abnormalities. On physical examination, cachexia (BCS 1/5), concave sternum, flatten thoracic cavity and cardiac murmur were observed. On radiographic study, the caudal sternum cave to vertebrae and narrowing thoracic cavity. The severities of thoracic deformity were evaluated by deformation indices such as-Frontosagittal index (FSI) and vertebral index (VI). Moderate to severe PE was founded by the radiological measurements.