Collaboration of Archaeologists, Historians and Bioarchaeologists During Removal of Clothing from Korean Mummy of Joseon
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Collaboration of Archaeologists, Historians and Bioarchaeologists During Removal of Clothing from Korean Mummy of Joseon Dynasty Eun-Joo Lee & Chang Seok Oh & Se Gweon Yim & Jun Bum Park & Yi-Suk Kim & Myung Ho Shin & Soong Deok Lee & Dong Hoon Shin
Published online: 19 January 2013 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013
Abstract Recently, experts from various research fields made an interdisciplinary collaboration on well-preserved cultural or human remains discovered in fifteenth- to nineteenth-century Joseon tombs of Korea. The academic information acquired under the interdisciplinary collaboration was significant to researchers in Korea because it is entirely original and not to be commonly found in any library resource for historians. This report is the first of full, detailed descriptions about the research on Joseon tomb, by which the vivid glimpse of Joseon people’s lives could be reconstructed, based on the clear archaeological, historical and biological evidences. Keywords Korea . Joseon tombs . Clothing . Interdisciplinary study
E.-J. Lee (*) Graduate School of Creative Industry, Andong National University, Andong, Korea e-mail: [email protected] C. S. Oh Anthropology and Paleopathology Lab, Institute of Forensic Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea e-mail: [email protected] S. G. Yim Department of History, Andong National University, Andong, Korea e-mail: [email protected] J. B. Park Seoul Institute of Cultural Heritage, Seoul, Korea e-mail: [email protected] Y.-S. Kim Department of Anatomy, Ewha Womans University School of Medicine, Seoul, Korea e-mail: [email protected]
Int J Histor Archaeol (2013) 17:94–118
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Introduction In Korea, primary research on the people of the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910) has been conducted, mostly based on extant historical documentation. This explains, at least in part, why archaeological findings of the same Joseon period have been given relatively scant attention until quite recently. For the past several decades, however, archaeologists have discovered Joseon tombs encapsulated by a lime-soil mixture barrier (LSMB tombs) that have surrendered cultural artifacts and human remains far better preserved than any of the other tombs discovered in Korea. The detailed archaeological findings obtained there were useful to obtaining a glimpse of Joseon people’s lives. One such example was our report on the 400-year-old Eung Tae’s tomb (Lee et al. 2009a, b). An interdisciplinary working group composed of a variety of specialists collected well-preserved cultural artifacts such as clothing, letters, and memoranda from the tomb. The astounding preservation status aside, the academic value of Joseon tombs has begun to be reassessed because they provide invaluable clues useful for comprehending Joseon people and their society at a much deeper level (Lee et al. 2009a, b). Among the various remains collected from Joseon tombs, the articles of highly preserved clothing have been very important to Korean textile historians. As early as 1964, Joseon clothing num
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