{"id":300,"date":"2009-11-27T07:12:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T07:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=300"},"modified":"2009-11-27T07:16:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-27T07:16:43","slug":"reconstructing-the-past-a-notable-step-forward-in-korean-archaeology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2009\/11\/reconstructing-the-past-a-notable-step-forward-in-korean-archaeology\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconstructing The Past – A Notable Step Forward In Korean Archaeology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Archaeologists with few other experts have reconstructed a girl who is 1,500-year-old. She was perhaps 16 years old and had a wide, flat Asian face, a long neck and a slim body. The girl expired 1,500 years ago. But now she\u2019s reborn – well, partially, at least.<\/p>\n

Officials from the Gaya National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage in Korea displayed the restored model of the girl from the Gaya confederacy era (42-562) yesterday at the National Palace Museum of Korea.<\/p>\n

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The restoration is the outcome of two years of interdisciplinary work that brought together specialists in archaeology, forensic medicine, anatomy, genetics, chemistry and other fields. It is a notable step forward in Korean archaeology.<\/p>\n

In December 2007, archaeologists revealed the complete ruins of the girl and partial remains of three others in a tomb in Changnyeong County, South Gyeongsang. By the time of the unearthing, there had already been a grave robbery.<\/p>\n

Archaeologists concluded that the four were attendants of the tomb\u2019s owner because they were placed horizontally. The ruins of the owner,were missing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe rarely find bones in such a good condition from the era because soil in Korea is really rich,\u201d said Lee Seong-jun, a researcher at the institute. \u201cThere have been restorations, but most of them were based on the imagination. This case, however, is strictly based on medical science, somatology and statistics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lee added that the discovery was the first time forensic experts – in this case from the National Institute of Scientific Investigation – recovered the ruins of an ancient tomb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Archaeologists with few other experts have reconstructed a girl who is 1,500-year-old. She was perhaps 16 years old and had a wide, flat Asian face, a long neck and a slim body. The girl expired 1,500 years ago. But now she\u2019s reborn – well, partially, at least. Officials from the Gaya National Research Institute of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,3,45,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeological-research","category-archaeology","category-historical-archaeology","category-prehistoric-archaeology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}