가야고분군 아카이브

초록(영문)

Earrings are one of the personal ornaments which have usually been worn since a long time ago. In many of the ancient eastern countries, earring were dearly legarded as a kind of talsiman, Among many tribes of the Eastern Siberia, earrings were thought to be shamanic. In Korea, earrings were first in fashion in the days of the Three Hans States and there came many excavations from old tombs of Three Ancient Kingdoms. From many old tombs of Gaya in the same period as Three Ancient Kingdoms there were excavated many kinds of personal ornaments, of which earrings were most part. I examined the earrings of Gaya Area by area and period and classified them in terms of shape. An earring is made up of the central ring attached to ear and ornaments in the lower part. There are two types of central rings-a thick and a fine ring. Ornaments in the lower have two parts-pendants and junction. These earring are made of gold, silver and copper. It is gold earrings which have remained most. By the thickness and shape of rings, the earrings are classified into two-fine rings(Ⅰ) and thick rings(Ⅱ). The pendants in the lower are classified in to A, B, C···H by the shape, and the junction ornaments into a, b, c...f by the shape. Through fine rings without pendants which were most excavated, we can see the simplicity of Gaya people. Fine rings with pendants are relatively simple and have one to three gold grains, which is a characteristic element in Gaya Area. Thick rings were a little excavated from only a few tombs and their pendants are also simple. Thus the earrings of Gaya developed from fine rings without pendants, and with pendants into thick rings and we can see that these three types were existent together in a good time.