Bangudae petroglyphs
Coordinates: 35 ° 36 ′ 13 ″ N , 129 ° 10 ′ 38 ″ E
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The petroglyphs of Bangudae are prehistoric, carved in stone petroglyphs in the southeast of South Korea , presumably in the period of the late Neolithic to the Bronze Age have emerged.
Origin of name
"Bangudae" ( 반구대 ) means "a tall, flat stone that resembles a turtle".
geography
The petroglyphs of Bangudae are located at the lower end of a 30 meter high, north-facing rock wall above the river bed of the Daegokcheon ( 대곡천 ), a small tributary of the Taehwagang ( 태화강 ). Located around 25 km west of the east coast, the area belongs to the Dudong-myeon ( 두 동명 ) district of the Ulju-gun ( 울주군 ) district, which belongs to the city of Ulsan ( 울산 광역시 ), which lies directly at the mouth of the Taehwagang in the Sea of Japan .
history
In 1965, the dam of the Sayeon Reservoir ( 사연, ), which was supposed to dam the Daegokcheon over a length of 5.5 km, was completed and the lake was put into operation. Since that time, some of the rock art, rediscovered in 1971, has been under the water level of the reservoir for about eight months a year, from spring to autumn. In 1995 the rock carvings were registered as a national treasure in South Korea under the number 285, replications of the rocks were made with their drawings and the Ulsan Petroglyph Museum opened in May 2008 , where their replicas have since been made available to the general public. In January 2010, South Korea was the petroglyphs along with the petroglyphs of Cheonjeon in the tentative list of UNESCO Enter.
Rock art
The petroglyphs were dated to a period of between 7000 years to 3500 years BC. Around 300 rock carvings were created on a rock surface around 5 m high and 8 m wide, depicting hunting scenes, animal symbols and tools for fishing. The rock carvings contain a total of 20 different animal symbols, including those of tigers, panthers, wolves, foxes, raccoons, deer and wild boar, which could be assigned to the animals found on land, or fish, sharks, seals, whales, turtles and water birds that live in the or live by the sea.
58 of the rock art depicting whales or whaling were of particular interest to the scientists. It is assumed that the representations testify to a pronounced hunting culture and prosperity. Was it previously assumed that, according to rock art found in Norway , the hunt for whales did not begin until 4000 BC? Took place, one must now assume that this happened earlier.
Ulsan Petroglyph Museum
The Ulsan Petroglyph Museum is the only museum in South Korea devoted exclusively to petroglyphs. It was built in the shape of a whale and opened in May 2008. It is located upriver, about 1.2 km northwest of the prehistoric site of Bangudae.
literature
- B. Fitzner, K. Heinrichs, D. La Bouchardiere: The Bangudae Petroglyph in Ulsan, Korea: studies on weathering damage and risk prognosis . In: Environmental Geology . Springer , 2004, ISSN 0943-0105 , p. 504–526 , doi : 10.1007 / s00254-004-1052-x (English, online [PDF; 2.8 MB ; accessed on November 28, 2017]).
Web links
- Daegokcheon Stream petroglyphs . In: Tentative List . UNESCO, January 11, 2010,accessed November 28, 2017.
- Homepage . Ulsan Petroglyph Museum,accessed November 28, 2017(Korean).
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Fitzner, Heinrichs, Bouchardiere: The Bangudae Petroglyph in Ulsan, Korea . In: Environmental Geology . 2004, p. 504 .
- ↑ a b Daegokcheon Stream Petroglyphs . In: Tentative List . UNESCO , January 11, 2010, accessed November 28, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c homepage . Ulsan Petroglyph Museum , accessed November 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Kim Jiyeon: The Bangudae and Cheonjeon-ri Petroglyphs in Ulsan, Korea . Bangudae Forum , February 21, 2014, accessed November 28, 2017 .