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Rock ArtSite Name: Bangudae Petroglyphs Alternative Name: Pan’gudae Rock Art
Country: South Korea Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Ulsan  Nearest Village: Daegok-ri
Latitude: 35.577740N  Longitude: 129.177080E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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 4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Bangudae Petroglyphs
Bangudae Petroglyphs submitted by TomLee : The most famous engravings in Korea. There a lot lot lot of whales, a herd of deer, tigers and mountain pigs as well as a figure of a human. Maybe, some of people had learned it. Feel it and step by there some day! Tom, Lee http://www.fcdolmens.com (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Korea.

The most famous prehistoric engravings in Korea. There a lot lot lot of whales, a herd of deer, tigers and mountain pigs as well as a figure of a human.

There are two stories about its age.
One of them, is that it was inscribed in Bronze age about 1000 BCE. But, there is a new theory that it was inscribed in Neolithic and that it goes back to almost 5000-6000 BCE.

It is about 26km from sea, which may tell you something about sea levels.

Research provided by Tom Lee

Designated as No. 285 of National Treasure

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Bangudae Petroglyphs submitted by Aska : 3D map. Let's try to decode the Korean letters! (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Bangudae Petroglyphs submitted by Aska : The map included in the brochure provided at the museum, indicating the positions of another petroglyph and dinosaur footprints. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Bangudae Petroglyphs
Bangudae Petroglyphs submitted by Aska : Ulsan Petroglyph Museum : the last point of driving access and the starting point for petroglyph valley rambling. Open 9:00-18:00, closed on Mondays, admission free. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Neolithic Rock carvings being washed away as regional governments squabble by Andy B on Thursday, 01 November 2018
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The world’s most ancient evidence of whaling is slowly disappearing. Bangudae Petroglyphs, a series of riverside rock carvings, are Korea’s 285th national treasure.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7piZ63DmzI

2) The rock carvings, estimated to be some 5,000 years old, become submerged during heavy rains. Typhoon Kong-rey, which hit Korea on Oct.6th, was no exception.

3) Why can’t we protect the petroglyphs from rising water?

4) Daegok-ri, Eonyang, Ulju County, Ulsan.

5) Background: The area of rock is 10 meters (33 feet) wide by five meters high. There are about 300 carvings of marine and land animals carved on a flat rock face.

6) The engravings and paintings, depicting animals from the Neolithic to Bronze Age, were first found in 1971. The carvings are so specific that we can distinguish the species of whales from them.

7) “It shows the world’s oldest whaling heritage, and marine culture of the prehistoric era in the North Pacific Ocean.” -Moon Meong-dae, honorary professor of Dongguk University who discovered the petroglyphs in 1971.

8) The rocks above the petroglyphs point up and outward, so the site is protected from above. But the problem is water rising from underneath.

9) The carvings have been damaged by repeated flooding.

10) “Continuous flooding and exposure has deteriorated the petroglyph’s clarity to half what it was when first discovered.” -Lee Su-gon, professor of civil engineering at the University of Seoul.

11) Damage started after construction of the Saeyeon dam in 1965. The petroglyphs are only 4.5km away from the upper part of the dam.

12) When the water level of the dam reaches 53 meters, flooding begins.

13) If the water level of the dam reaches 56.7 meters, the remains become fully immersed.

14) Preservation Measure 1: Construction of a ‘kinetic dam’ to act as a temporary water blockage was carried out in 2013. The project was abandoned because water permeated the blockage.

15) Preservation Measure 2: An ecological embankment 63 meters away from the petroglyphs. It was abandoned because of damage to the area’s environment.

16) Preservation Measure 3: Lowering the level of the water of the dam to under 52 meters. But this caused a water shortage for citizens of Ulsan.

17) Ulsan city is planning to obtain water from other regions, such as Unmun Dam in North Gyeongsang.

18) But it’s not easy for governments of different regions to come to an agreement.

19) Ulsan city insists the water shortage should be solved first, while the Cultural Heritage Administration says water levels should be lowered right away. The two sides have been stuck in this dispute for the last 15 years.

20) Bangudae Petroglyphs are still under water today.

Video sourced from JoongAng Ilbo
Video produced by Choi Eun-kyung
Translated by Chung Yu-soo
Edited by Josh Doyle

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    Korea’s archaeological research presented in English by Andy B on Thursday, 01 November 2018
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    Non-Korean speakers will now have easier access to the Paleolithic-era archaeological findings in Korea with the publication of an English-language book on research related to the field.

    The National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage, affiliated with the Cultural Heritage Administration, has published the “Dictionary of Korean Archaeology–The Paleolithic,” an English-language version of the book of the same title that was published in Korean in 2013.

    It also includes research conducted after the original book was published five years ago.

    The dictionary is aimed at helping researchers overseas learn about Korean archaeology, by introducing the research that was conducted on 73 major Paleolithic-era finds in Korea, illustrated with photographs, graphs and other content.

    The book is part of the “Dictionary of Korean Archaeology” series that has been published since 2001. Seven books have been published in Korean: one that deals with the general Korean Archaeology -- “Dictionary of Korean Archaeology”; three books that each cover specific topics of tumuli, fortresses and beacons, and relics found in the tumuli; and three others that each cover the Paleolithic era, Neolithic eras, and the Bronze Age.

    The recently published book on the early Stone Age is the second in the series to be published in English, following the Dictionary of Korean Archaeology that was published in English as an e-book in 2014 and as a physical copy last year.

    “Dictionary of Korean Archaeology–The Paleolithic” will be distributed to state-run libraries and research institutions in and out of Korea, and will also be accessible to the general public through http://www.nrich.go.kr

    [If anyone can find the link to this book please post it! - MegP Ed]
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Bangudae: Petroglyph Panels in Ulsan, Korea, in the Context of World Rock Art by Andy B on Thursday, 09 July 2015
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Book: Bangudae: Petroglyph Panels in Ulsan, Korea, in the Context of World Rock Art
edited by Ho-tae Jeon and Jiyeon Kim. Seoul: Hollym, 2013. 231 pp. 174 gures. 1 table. $29.50 (cloth)

Publications on early Korea and/or archaeology are critical to Korean Studies because the field is so skewed toward modern and contemporary scholarly endeavors. Yet Pan’gudae (romanized as Bangudae in the book), a petroglyphic archaeological site that is at once breathtakingly impressive as it is politically controversial, should be of interest to all Koreanists for its truly ancient depictions of animals, people, and lifeways dating back between two thousand and four thousand years. In addition, the petroglyphic depictions are regionally unique, the site is under threat, and many of the images have all but been rubbed away.

Review here
https://www.academia.edu/13821799/Bangudae_Petroglyph_Panels_in_Ulsan_Korea_in_the_Context_of_World_Rock_Art_ed._by_Ho-tae_Jeon_and_Jiyeon_Kim_review_
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Rock art hints at whaling origins by Andy B on Thursday, 09 July 2015
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News from April 2004:
Stone Age people may have started hunting whales as early as 6,000 BC, new evidence from South Korea suggests. Analysis of rock carvings at Bangu-Dae archaeological site in Ulsan in the southeast of the country revealed more than 46 depictions of large whales.

They also show evidence that humans used harpoons, floats and lines to catch their prey, which included sperm whales, right whales and humpbacks. Details of the research were published in the journal L'Anthropologie.

More at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3638853.stm
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