earticle

영어

This paper focuses on the identification of settlement systems and their variations during the Neolithic period in Korean peninsula. Based on the characteristics of features, sites in study area divided into six categories : rectangular houses(A1), round houses(A2), round pits(B), shell-middens(C), stone hearths(D), and others(E). Through the analysis of artifact compositions on each features in each categories, it reveals that the settlement system in middle phase is operated in three level :sedentary settlement(A1), houses of short term occupation(A2, B) and limited activity stations(C-E). In the late phase, this system changes into two or three level by the regions : sedentary settlement and limited activity station in western part of Korean peninsula, and sedentary settlement, houses of short term occupation and limited activity stations in southern inland area. This variations in time and space associated with the subsistence strategies in each phases and regions.