Craft production and social change in Mumun Pottery Period Korea.

From: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | Date: September 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

This paper addresses the development of craft production in the Mumun Pottery Period (c. 1500 to 300 B.C.) of south-central Korea. Specialized craft production of greenstone ornaments, groundstone daggers, red-burnished pottery, and bronze objects was coeval with the onset of intensive agriculture. We examine the nature of this production in the settlement of Daepyeong, where social differentiation increased diachronically, notably in the Late Middle Mumun (700-550 b.c.). Specialized craft production appears to have originated as a supplement to intensive agriculture ...

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